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Magento Tips: Apple touch icon for your Magento mobile theme

Apple touch icon for your Magento mobile theme

Beautiful icon for your Apple and Android visitors.

Are you sure that your Magento theme is 100% ready for Apple and Android mobile visitors? If so, try to visit your mobile website and add it to the smartphone desktop favorites links. Most likely you will see ugly re-sized favicon instead of beautiful desktop-like Apple or Android icon.

In this article I will show how to add nice looking touch icon to your Magento mobile theme and make your Magento mobile store better.

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Magento Tips: Manual activation of the Magento mobile theme

Manual activation of the Magento mobile theme

How to make mobile theme available for testing only for developer.

Usually switching to magento mobile theme being happened automatically basing on customers' user agent (i.e. browser). However, in case if you would like to test your mobile theme before publishing, this approach will not work because theme will be visible for all customers with mobile devices. In this article I try to describe how to make mobile theme available only for you by special link.

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Magento mobile theme FAQ

Magento mobile theme FAQ

The amount of mobile devices keeps growing. Definitely, you should consider the mobile theme for your Magento store.

The number of mobile-connected devices exceeded the number of people on earth in the end of 2012, people use smartphones and tablets for shopping and research, and sooner or later you will face with necessity to implement mobile theme. Thankfully, it is already included into latest versions of standard Magento (all editions).

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