how to create index page in magento

Question

I am new to magento. I have installed magento in localhost and login admin panel.

Now i run 127.0.0.1/magento/admin in localhost, after logged in it displayed one page it contains number of fileds such as cmc,catalog,...

May i know how to create and design home page in magento.

I refered in google, little i confused.

Can anyone help me?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

U might have not setup your magento properly, so refer to this below links & also install magento sample data

http://info.magento.com/rs/magentocommerce/images/MagentoDesignGuide.pdf http://www.magentocommerce.com/resources/user-guide-download http://www.magentocommerce.com/knowledge-base/entry/installing-sample-data-archive-for-magento-ce

After that simply access your magento http://127.0.0.1/magento/index.php/

Answer 2

There's a default home page installed on Magento. Go to backend: CMS -> Pages and select Home Page. There you can add content and markup. You can style your homepage with css, or use a custom layout.

This is the page 127.0.0.1/magento.

Your shop doesn't have products, menu, etc. on homepage because you have a basic installation without sample data (products, categories, etc.). But you can add your own data.

You can add content in the content tab of the CMS Home Page page.

In layout tab, you can set page structure (3 columns, 2 columns right, etc) and change layout and add functionality via xml update.

For example, at the top of layout tab in layout update xml you can see:

<block type="catalog/product_new" name="home.catalog.product.new" alias="product_new" template="catalog/product/new.phtml" after="cms_page">
    <action method="addPriceBlockType">
        <type>bundle</type>
        <block>bundle/catalog_product_price</block>
        <template>bundle/catalog/product/price.phtml</template>
    </action>
</block>

This snippet places the last added product to the homepage. So if you add a new product to the shop (Catalog -> Manage Products -> New Product), they will show up on the homepage.

A menu will show up if you add subcategories (Catalog -> Manage Categories) to Default Category, and set active and include in navigation menu to yes.

A slider or other modifications can also be added the same way via xml update or html-like in content tab.

If you are new to Magento, do some research on the web on magento layout and templating.