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I created a .html file which I coded in the way my new projects home website's design should be. Now I want this .html file to integrate inside my newly installed magento folder as Home page.
The .html file has some main parts which should not be changed when the user visits some other pages such as:
where should I start from?
I know some ways to integrate this page like adding as new theme or as CMS block but I don't know much about both of the aproaches.
Basically you want to slice a static html file to the templating of Magento?
The header and footer that are used through out the whole shop are located in template/page/html/header.phtml and template/page/html/footer.phtml with some small parts coming from different phtml files which you can track down using the template hints you can activate under System > Configuration > Developer > [change to website scope] > Path hints
For your homepage, this is by default a CMS page called home which you can edit through the content section and the layout XML section when you open it under CMS > Pages.
I found this to be somewhat limited and definitely not practical so I wrote an extension (which can be found on Github) to have phtml files and some extra functionality for retrieving categories on the homepage.
You are free to use it.
Also I would like to suggest reading up on building your own theme. Altho it's not what you want to do it will however teach you a lot on how to slice your html file into Magento's theme
