In order to display a “You Save” for “Special Price” products in magento–to make it look similar to amazon’s price display–you can do the following:

Copy app/design/frontend/base/default/template/catalog/product/price.phtml
to
app/design/frontend/default/YOURTEMPLATE/template/catalog/product/price.phtml

Then in price.phtml that you just copied, right above:

<?php endif; /* if ($_finalPrice == $_price): */ ?>

Insert:

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<?php
  function getCartQuantity () {
	  $cart = Mage::getModel('checkout/cart')->getQuote()->getData();
	  if (isset($cart['items_qty']))
	 	return (int)$cart['items_qty'];
	  else
	  	return 0;
  }
  echo getCartQuantity ().' Item(s)';
?>

It is possible to have multiple base prices in Magento but you need to set up different websites:

Step 1. In Magento product price scope can be kept either global or per website, so you can have only one base price currency for a website. To set the Catalog Price Scope to website log into the Admin and go to System – > Configuration -> Catalog -> Price

Step 2. Set up multiple websites in Configuration > Manage Stores (you will need to creat a website/view and store for your new shop)

Step 3. Set the pricing for each one in Configuration > {switch store} > Currency Set up

In this Magento tutorial we will demonstrate how to move the mini-cart that resides in the right column of a fresh Magento install into the header section. This can be a popular request as the header section of a e-commerce store is a great place to include the cart especially if you are using a one column template on important pages like the homepage.

1) Now open layout\page.xml from within your theme folder and look for the following lines of code:

and add the following line before before the closing </block> tag:

Magento by default now has the ability from the admin area to create a ‘show all’ link via the Products per Page on Grid Allowed Values section of the catalog area. This by default is great, it works fine and should be a great asset to your product listing pages. But you may run into a client who just wants to have a ‘view all‘ link and nothing else which by default is not in Magento just yet; so we have to come up with a solution to this. And the solution is as follows:

First thing to do is to navigate to /app/design/frontend/theme/default/template/page/html/pager.phtml, once you have opened the page add this code to were you want your ‘view all‘ link to be placed.

This segment of code generates our link with ‘limit’ parameter set to ‘all’. Now when we click on it, it will give us a full category listing.