I am new to magento and i am trying to create a static block for my home, category and other pages. i want the static block to be shown just above the footer link. And is there any good tutorial on line which can provide a good over view of static blocks. How to use them in CMS and how we can generate them using php Code.
Adding Static and non-static blocks directly to templates:
<?php echo $this->getLayout()
->createBlock('cms/block')
->setBlockId('your_block_id')->toHtml(); ?>
Short code inside another block or cms page :
{{block type="cms/block" block_id="your_block_id"}}