After many months of hard work by many people, the Magento team, the members of the Community Advisory Board, as well as many members of the community, are very proud to announce the general public availability of the Magento Contributor Agreement to the community.

1. Create a category to contain the featured products. Call it e.g. Featured” or “Home Page”.
2. Set “Is Active” to No. That way, it won’t display in the catalog menu.
3. After saving the category, please note what ID it gets. You can see it in the last part of the URL. If the URL ends with catalog_category/edit/id/8/, the ID is 8. On later version, the ID is next to the category name.

By default, Dreamweaver cannot read PHTML files. You can add the file type to the “Open in Code View” section of the preferences if you wish to have fast access, however you cannot view the file in design view if you do that. So if you use Dreamweaver (versions 4, …

Making your way around Magento’s file structure can be a real pain. When you think you’ve found the correct file to edit, NO, you have to edit 4 others. This can be very frustrating until you enable a little thing called Template Path Hints.
What is Template Path hints
Template Path Hints …