How to Install a Mato Theme Manually

I think you are familiar with mato commerce. If you Don’t know anything about it..Don’t Worry I am giving you a small explanation.Mato is a very powerful and fast growing ecommerce script, crted by Varien. It is an open-sourceplatform using Zend P and MySQL databases. Mato offers grt flexibility through its modular architecture, is completely scalable and has a wide range of control options that its users appreciate.Let’s Have a Look at How to Install a Mato Theme Manually.Sooner or later, you will probably want to install a Mato theme other than the default. The good news is, Mato theme installation is quick and sy. This will be accomplished in just 3 simple steps.Step 1: Download a ThemeThere are lots of places to find a good Mato theme. Here are a few places that you could start looking:
www.mato-templates.comAnd of course, thousands of other options can be found with a simpleGoogle srch.Now, you’ll probably notice before too long that some templates arefree, while in other cases, designers will charge you for their work. Whichever route you choose to go, you will end up with a file that’s in.zipformat. Download it to your computer, and unzip it.Step 2: Upload a ThemeAfter unzipping your theme, you’ll want to upload it to your web hosting provider. Being the grt decision-maker that you are, you’ve chosen one of the best shopping cart scripts on the market, and have also probably chosen Nexcess’ secured and optimizedMato hostinvironment for your site. Fortunately, however, the following will be the same no matter who your web host is. Depending upon the Theme you choose you will see at lst 2 folders./app
/skinNote: Some themes include a/jsfolder as well.Connect to your web host via FTP, and upload them to the root of your website.Step 3: Activate your ThemeNow, login to your Mato admin panel and choose System -> Configuration from the drop-down menu at the top of the page. On the left menu click on “Design”. Click on the “Themes” hder to expand the section.You will see 5 fields:TranslationsTemplatesSkin (s / CSS)LayoutDefaultThese fields are where you will add your theme name. The first field “Translations”, is usually kept blank unless you are using an alternate language.Let’s say we downloaded a style named Blue, enter “blue” into the Templates, Skin, Layout, and Default fields and click Save Config. The name of the theme and the name you are entering in to ch field will differ depending upon the theme you choose. Some themes will come with multiple colors so the fields may not all be the same name.Now, go to the main page of your storefront, and admire your new theme!