Free High-Quality Magento Theme: Sigyn SM
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Today we are glad to release Sigyn SM — a free high-quality Magento theme created by Silverthemes.com especially for Smashing Magazine and its readers. The theme has a unique grungy design that stands out and can serve as a good baseline for your Magento-powered online shops.
Download the Magento theme for free!
The theme is released under GPL. You can use it for all your projects for free and without any restrictions. Please link to this article if you would like to spread the word. You may modify the theme as you wish.
- live demo (currently offline)
- large preview 1
- large preview 2
- large preview 3
- installation and configuration guide
- download the theme (0.2 Mb)
Screenshots
Below you’ll find more screenshots of the theme. You can click on an image to see the enlarge version.
Promo area
Checkout page
Product page
Categories page
Search bar
Tabs
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vectorss
November 14th, 2009 5:10 amGreat themes a big thank you SM.
wira
November 14th, 2009 5:20 amthanks.. you guys are the best!
Rafi B.
November 14th, 2009 5:28 amMagento theme ?? For free ? That’s awesome. Magento is really getting more and more spread. Noticed you use Magento for your pre-sale book when I ordered it ;)
Vygantas
November 14th, 2009 5:35 amAnd still no decent 2CO module
sir
November 14th, 2009 6:09 amDemo link doesn’t work. Please fix it!
However, nice theme…
Smashing Editorial
November 14th, 2009 6:14 amThe Silverthemes’ server couldn’t manage the traffic :( We replaced the link to the demo with full preview images.
Sandstream
November 14th, 2009 6:12 amNice, but why give away something that only a few people can use?
Smashing Editorial
November 14th, 2009 6:15 amWhy so? The theme can serve as a solid foundation for your next projects, isn’t it?
Sandstream
November 18th, 2009 2:40 amOfcourse, but when a freebie has a connection to a company trying to sell a product I’m always a little suspicious…
But hey, never mind me, I’m just an old fart. Keep up your good work! :-)
v-render
November 14th, 2009 6:19 amawesome
thanks for sharing ..
EthanJ
November 14th, 2009 6:57 amThanks, there are so few good _free_ Magento themes around. It’s such a great shopping cart too.
Bug
November 14th, 2009 7:50 amActually anyone can use it, you don’t have to keep it in Magento. I’ll toss a copy of Magento onto our test server, install this and then scrape the entire thing into raw HTML. After that it’s about an hours work to make it a Joomla/Virtuemart template. Though I think I might use the opportunity to get some time in on Zen-Cart.
Frog
November 14th, 2009 8:18 amFor a free theme it’s a great freebie. As with any serious business though a tailored bespoke solution is always best. For new startups however this seems perfect.
Rodney
November 14th, 2009 9:57 amGreat Free theme. I even love the free opportunity to BUY the plugin to make it work like the theme is supposed to.
Its a sharp theme indeed, but not so impressive without the plugin. So its not so free.
AboSami
November 14th, 2009 11:55 amwow thank u very much ..
^_^
Rob J-
November 14th, 2009 1:05 pmBig Ups, SM!
I may find a use for this, or I may not. Either way, I like seeing “Free High-Quality” themes that are not just for WordPress.
Webecta
November 14th, 2009 1:57 pmThanks for this theme. It would be nice if there were more high-quality themes like this available for other platforms, rather than “just” WordPress and Blogger.
Benjamin Rama
November 14th, 2009 3:01 pmawesome love the open source – thanks it looks shiny
uxp
November 14th, 2009 4:55 pmI had an issue with the Search Box not displaying properly. For whatever reason, the header.phtml template file was trying to echo a single line of PHP code using <?= … ?> (which I have disabled on my Production Server) instead of <?php echo … ?> .
To fix that, run this diff patch from the document root of your Magento install:
http://bsdeviant.org/mirror/sigyn-smtheme.diff
Edit: Obviously, if you don’t have an issue with the search box, then you don’t need to run this patch. If you do, and you can’t figure it out, then this will help.
DavidDWQ
November 14th, 2009 7:48 pmHey guys, this is really great, thank you very much for sharing!
Cheers!
Roy Andre
November 15th, 2009 2:22 amThe link to the demo-store is now up running again.
Ivan Philipov
November 15th, 2009 2:32 amwell…of all them free shopping solutions, Magento has the best interface, but it is rather picky when it comes to server configuration…I never made it work actually.
Marian Rick
November 15th, 2009 4:17 amGreat work!
arham blogpreneur
November 15th, 2009 4:53 amgreat ecommerce themes. however can we still put any comment ???
Owen
November 15th, 2009 6:51 pmmeh…
Ejaz
November 15th, 2009 8:56 pmThats Awesome, looking a great theme.
eris
November 16th, 2009 12:47 amNice theme. Thanks for sharing this.
geron
November 16th, 2009 12:49 pmThanks SM….but all i get is a white blank screen after i change the design to the template or layout!!!
Anyone know what that could be?
Julien
November 17th, 2009 5:54 amReally a nice idea to give us free magento theme !
I looking forward the next…
Joshua Sortino
November 17th, 2009 8:43 amI’m so glad to see Smashing Magazine provide templates other than WordPress! While I love WordPress, there are so many more CMS and shopping carts that need the Smashing Magazine touch. Also, it’s hard to find high quality Magento themes, so I’m even happier to see this!
ZXT
November 18th, 2009 1:09 pmJust the right time. I am looking for a free shopping cart and was thinking of using Magento. This is really great downloading it now. Thanks SM.
Sakib
November 20th, 2009 4:23 amit looks awesome and I’m loving it ;-)
Commy
January 7th, 2010 1:31 amAwesome theme!
Could someone tell me how to build that menu like the one in the demo? (i.e. Home / Furniture / Clothes / Computers etc).
I’ve tried creating categories and sub-categories, but they aren’t appearing anywhere, at all. Sorry for my noob question, but I’d really appreciate your patience and help.
Commy
January 7th, 2010 5:31 amNevermind, I’ve realized the categories needed to be childs of the main default category. newbie mistake :P
Fantastic theme, nonetheless
silence129
January 20th, 2010 4:12 amHow can i get the home page?
silence129
January 22nd, 2010 3:05 amI want use the theme on my site
But i don’t how to set my homepage.
Matt
March 11th, 2010 11:22 pmI installed this theme with Magento 1.4.0.1
The problem I have is that the only layout that works is the “1 column” layout. If I select the 2 or 3 column layouts the side graphic borders are missing and the background is transparent.
Anyone know what’s wrong? Thanks.
bare
April 23rd, 2010 11:44 pmsame here.
ALLNews
May 8th, 2010 4:08 amI’ve got the same problem !
Erik
July 26th, 2010 1:34 amHi, same prob here.
has anyone a work-around
greetings Erik
Kirsten
September 17th, 2010 10:12 amI am currently running ver 1.4.1.1, had the same issue with the Sigyn theme and inadvertently figured out this fix:
- Download ver 1.3.2.1 on to your computer.
- Navigate to magento\downloader\skin\install
inside the install folder you will find 5 css files: boxes.css, clears.css, ie7minus.css, iestyles.css, and reset.css.
- Upload those 5 css files into your server in this location:
example.com/skin/frontend/base/default/css/
Incidentally, this also fixed a couple formatting issues I was having with the main “home” navigational bar.
David
May 12th, 2010 7:39 pmNice article! I also recommend some free nice themes for magento 1.4.x http://www.mage-world.com/magento-themes/
Thanks you!
Ipads Tablet
June 21st, 2010 10:27 pmThe theme has a unique grungy design that stands out and can serve as a good baseline for your Magento-powered online shops
ipad tablet
Garry
February 1st, 2011 10:46 amLike the style, but i get an error on load… just doesnt work… any ideas what I’m doing wrong? error 529
amgohan
May 19th, 2011 3:10 pmI’m a beginner on magento, i installed the theme correctly but i don’t know how can i configure frontpage, because the frontpage is empty as mentionned in install file.
can u help me or send me an exemple of front page.
thnks for your help.
soniczone
July 19th, 2011 11:43 amDoes this work on magento ver 1.5.1.0 or ver 1.6.0.0-rc2 ?