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Mobilize your Magento Store

In this post I will illustrate 'How you can mobilize your Magento Store'

Browser's Settings:

1) First of all your browser must have iPhone user agent.
       In Safari it has its own user agent, just go to Developer > User Agent  and set it to iPhone.
       If you are using Firefox then go to Tools > Default User Agent and select iPhone.
If you don't have iPhone in option then Tools > Add-ons and install 'User Agent Switcher 0.7.3 in firefox browser. This will switch your Site view from Desktop to Mobile.  Check you special user agent : whatsmyuseragent.com
At last you have your phone to test the Mobile Site.

Magento Admin Settings:

1) Log-in to your Magento admin and go to System > Configuration > General > Design.
2) In Design open 'Themes' tab to Mobilize your Store.
Mobilize your Magento Store Admin Settings
















 

3) In Templates click on Add Exception button and In Matched Expression set your Mobile Theme  name.

 4) In Value field set  iPhone|iPod|BlackBerry|Palm|Googlebot-Mobile|Mobile|mobile|mobi|Windows Mobile|Safari Mobile|Android|Opera Mini as shown in the above image.

 5) Save the settings and you can also upload the Magento Mobile Store logo.

Customization:


 1) After this all settings we can see our Magento Store in Mobile but still we need do some modifications. For that we  will require scripts/files of Mobile Site.
2) Go to  your app/design/frontend/default and copy the iPhone folder and paste it with your Mobile Site name like in my case it is Mobile_Theme. Now whatever changes you will do it will reflect in your Mobile Site.
Script Update











3) Do the same thing with skin/frontend/default to customize your Mobile Site Theme.

 Congratulations !!! Now your Mobile Store is ready to update, make changes you like.

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Mohit verma



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