The Best Magento Designs for Your eCommerce Business | Creative Development

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By Robert Steers ecommerce magento September 27, 2010

As Magento has started to emerge as a great tool for businesses who wants to sell online. With its full offering of options and features, Magento is hard to go past when it comes to an eCommerce platform.

Since we our first post on the best wordpress themes for business, and since we offer Magento as part of our own eCommerce Design program, we decided we could do a similar post on themes for Magento. Based on what we already know works for business, we thought we would find Magento themes that have the following criteria;

Menu bar across the top.
Two Column Layout
Space for your logo in the top left hand corner.
Background colour of the body is white.
Stretchable side areas (outside of the body)
CSS menu (not images)

When you are looking for a Magento template, there are some key things you should look out for;

Decide what your brand is; choose a flexible template

Have a look around at the competition, what they website looks like and how they are producing their website. Find a template that looks flexible and can adapt to your brand. If the buttons are blue and white, but your branding is all red, then maybe you should look elsewhere.

Breathing space

Your ecommerce website should breath. Too much clutter and you will confuse your buyers. Every element in your wordpress website should be given breathing space. It should also mean that when you add a widget to the sidebar, whether it is an image or text, it should not destroy the flow of the template.

Based on these recomendations, these are the latest best Magento themes. If you want to purchase any of these themes, all you have to do is click on the images.

This cohesive theme includes design for everything you need to launch your online store:

Homepage (Image gallery is included for free)
Category Landing Page / Product Listing Page
Product Page with free Lightbox gallery integration included
Register / Sign In Page
My Account Pages
Shopping Cart Page
Checkout Page
Content Page template
Email Header

Tribeca is a clean, magazine style Magento theme. It has penty of room around the elements, plenty of breathing space and the main text is balck on white, which make it easy to read.

Crisp and Clean includes all the pages you need to set up your online store. The main thing we love is that, again, the elements have plenty of space to breath.

Ultra crisp, clean and clear http://960.gs/ layout.
Plenty of white space for high legibility and easy reading.
Unique custom gallery on homepage
Detects iPad visitors and serves up an iPad-friendly version of the site
Custom lower galleries with reversing arrows
Lightbox gallery on product pages for displaying jumbo product images
Custom cart preview modal window
Amazon style (but better looking!) huge multi-column subnavigation

This furniture store theme is lush looking, and inviting!

Modern, luxurious, professional, clean & elegent design.
Unique slideshow is designed for showing off Furniture.
All blocks are customized.
All cart & checkout progress pages are customized.
All product catalog pages are customzed.
All customer pages are customized.
Banners for Furniture products & the targeted business included.

GENERAL FEATURES

Div/Tabless HTML mark-up.
XHTML 1 .0 Strict valid.
CSS 2 .0 and CSS 3 .0 valid.
Cross-browser support. Compatible with all major browsers such as IE7 +, Firefox 3, Safari 5, Chrome 5, Opera 10.
Prototype-based Javascript (avoid javascript confliction).
Support Magento CE version 1.4.0 and higher.
SEO (Search Engine Optimization)-orient in design and development, fast loading.
Full PSD files supplied, easy to edit.
Well-structured and commented HTML & CSS for easy customization.
Full user guide documentation to help you installing and utilizing the theme.