I need to setup a Magento website landing page that contains two stores. The landing page should use the same footer and header as the child stores. The website landing page essentially directs the user to the two child stores.
Our basic structure:
URL to landing page: www.website.com
URL to store 1 page: www.website.com/store1
URL to store 2 page: www.website.com/store2
Each store has its own store home landing page, so there needs to be something before that that is a general landing page for both stores.
I need the www.website.com landing page to be able to use the same (or similar) footer and header, be able to pull up the store names, and use things like static blocks.
Can anyone point me into the right direction?
Best Answer
I think this is the basic functionality of a Magento multi-store, right?
http://www.magentocommerce.com/knowledge-base/entry/overview-how-multiple-websites-stores-work/
You can make domain.com your default store's homepage and then just have two sub-stores with individual CMS pages as your /store1 and /store2
I assume you don't even have the multi-store set up, so I suggest watching those two videos and configuring that locally first.