Magento Hosting : Implementing a design into Magento

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This magento discussion was started by wilco3d on 04 july 2009

Firstly I appologize if this is in the wrong section – it seems the most appropriate.

I am new to Magento, although I am a fulltime web design and developer – I thought when my client requested the use of Magento as their backend of choice I wouldn’t have a problem working with it.

Basically, I am having a real problem understanding and getting to grips with turning the design, into the actual Magento theme – it seems different process than ive ever had to do before. I’ve read plenty of documentation, and also tutorials online to try and get to grips – but the learning curve seems steep – and my deadline is running closer.

I’ve installed the `blank` template as it seems to be a good groundwork to start from – but everything I am doing either isn’t the right method, or takes me a few hours to research and learn. I have the design all fully marked up in XHTML/CSS – but I don’t think it was worth my time doing that – as it doesn’t easily translate into the template/theme system of Magento!

I am posting on here, for either

1) Get some more detailed advice and help on doing the above (someone I could IM would be great) or;

2) If there’s a developer out there that can do this for me, id be happy to pay for this service too if it’s reasonable.

Magento does seem like a far more professional ecommerce platform than others ive experienced in the past, although the template/theme system im finding extremely different than ive ever worked with.

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