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Magento 2 Theme Design

Magento 2 Theme Design

By : J Miguel, Richard Carter
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Magento 2 Theme Design

Magento 2 Theme Design

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By: J Miguel, Richard Carter

Overview of this book

Magento is the e-commerce software and platform trusted by the world’s leading brands. Using Magento’s powerful theming engine, you can control the look, content, and functionality, and easily launch a flexible e-commerce website. However, because of its powerful features, developing Magento themes is easier said than done. This book aims to leverage the enhancements to theme designing in Magento 2 to the fullest. It will show you how to gear up the performance of your e-commerce website. We begin by introducing Magento 2 and its features along with implementing a local development Magento environment. We then move on to discuss the concepts of the Magento theme structure such as templates, inheritance, customization, and override. Further on, we explore the Magento UI Library, which is a new feature available in Magento 2.0. We will create a new Magento 2.0 theme named MyCake Store using Magento Bootstrap from Maven E-commerce and also create print strategies for the Magento 2.0 theme. We will also create and customize a new theme proposal for the Magento admin panel. At the end, we will integrate Magento 2.0 to Twitter and integrate it with social bookmarking and finally deploy our new Magento 2.0 theme.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
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Strategies for customizing your themes

All good professionals must draw clear and concise strategies for the development of their solutions. With the techniques we've seen, you will already be able to develop your themes; however, it is important to have some things cleared before you code your solution.

Despite the knowledge, you must have in relation to the Magento 2 structure with respect to both the coding architecture and use of the PHP language as the  best practice for codification, the layer that you will be acting, with greater emphasis is the system's presentation layer. In this layer, you will be developing interactions and interfaces using HTML 5, CSS 3, and PHTML files for the effective presentation of all content with a few snippets of PHP code. For the presentation layer, the focus will be on theme development, which is also the focus of this book.

First of all, you must study the area that you intend to develop your theme in (pet shop, games shop, clothing store...

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