Changing the Magento theme

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In order to change your Magento theme, you would need to find a new theme and download it. You can download new themes from:

• the official Magento web site. So far there is one available Magento theme and its announcement is published at: http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/viewthread/568/, or
• check for a suitable Magento theme for your website here.

How to upload the Magento theme?

Once you download the theme, uncompress it and upload the theme and the Skin folders of the Magento installation through FTP under the corresponding locations:

your_magento_folder/app/design/frontend/default/

and

your_magento_folder/skin/frontend/default/

In this example we will install the Tealo theme. The folders are called tealo-theme and tealo-skin. We have uploaded them to the respective locations and renamed both of them to tealo.

Since the script installation was performed in the public_html/magento folder, the corresponding locations are:

public_html/magento/app/design/frontend/default/tealo/

and

public_html/magento/skin/frontend/default/tealo/

How to set the new theme as default?

Once the folders are uploaded, navigate to your Magento admin area -> System -> Configuration -> Design. Click on the Themes option and enter the theme name in the Default, Layout, Templates and Skin fields.

Click on the [Save] button and your new Magento theme will be installed.