Magento Iki 0.8 template (based on Magento 1.3.2.3 build)



I have made my own Magento Template. It includes many improvements (mostly front end) compared with default magento template. Template customized and intended for affiliate sites, so it doesn't contain shopping cart module - instead it only special section for affiliate links.

Version 0.8
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-Turned off unnecessary modules like: Cart, Google Checkout, Log, Rating, RSS etc
-Installed good multilevel drop down menu navigation script, using pure js.
-Fixed product images compression issue
-Made simple and easy product image swap gallery
-Removed unnecessary front end javascripts (was 150Kb - now 75kb, using jquery lib) - speeded up client-side page load
-Made tab-based navigation on product page
-Changed, improved and cleaned some tempates
-Re-designed default design
-Fixed some cross-browser issues
-Speeded up page load approximately in 5 sec
-Added 'featured item' support
-Added support for TinyMCE - WYSIWYG Editor for backend

Version 1.0 to do
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-Single page filter ajax based filter, client based
-Product listing on product page (slider style, see video)
-Full WYSIWYG Editor support for all backend forms

Iki Template can be used for any niche sites,designs, mostly catalog of products, multi category shops.

Magento is great but the code is real heavy and requires a VPS or better hosting. Here is the info from specialist:

- Magento requires 96 Mb only for PHP per instance, plus 300 Mb for Mysql - for small site. For 10k+ product only full-dedicated server (enzo web programer)
- For stable performance magento developers recommends 128Mb. By my epxreices says that 64Mb is quite enough, but 128 Mb is optimal (alex.nuzil web programer)
-Up to 256Mb not saying about 512 Mb (tech project manager of varien Co Ukraine)
-We have successful setup and maintenance examples for Magento stores on Shared hosting with low traffic (tech project manager of varien Co Ukraine)