Working With Frontend Apps

• Creating Custom Variables This feature can be very helpful when adding custom text to you store. Custom variables are moveable pieces of plain text or HTML content great for adding to transactional emails, or adding constant copy and designs.

• Placing a Block with a Frontend App Frontend Apps let you position CMS blocks, without writing any code, on most pages throughout your store.

• "New Products" List on Home Page This article explains how to add and configure the "New Products" list.

• Linking Pages Magento Go provides several different ways to link to content pages. This series of articles explains how to generate links with the Frontend App tool, and how create your own using HTML and markup tags.

• Creating a Block of Links This article explains how to create a list, or block, of links using the Frontend App tool.

• Creating Inline Links An inline link is a hyperlink to another page that is placed in a line of text. Inline links can be inserted directly into the content editor of CMS pages, blocks, and banners. This series of articles explains how to use the Frontend App tool to create inline links for your Magento Go store.

• Orders and Returns Block The Orders and Returns block is a convenient way for your customers to access information related to any order they have placed with your store. It's a smaller version of the form that appears when you click the Orders and Returns link in the footer of your store.

• Creating a Banner Rotator A banner rotator can be used to display a single banner, or multiple banners in a specific sequence or random order. As a frontend app, the rotator can be assigned to a specific page, product, or category, and placed most anywhere in your store.