Magento 2 Theme Design: Create stunning and responsive Magento 2 themes for your business

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Packt Publishing Ltd, 28 okt 2016 - 288 pagina's

Create stunning and responsive Magento 2 themes for your business

Key FeaturesRealize the full potential of theme design in Magento 2Design attractive themes for your e-commerce store to make them stand out amongst the crowdPractical skills and examples ensure you can take what you've learnt to your own projects – limited only by your own creativity!Book Description

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.

What you will learnImplement a local development Magento environment Understand the workings of the Magento theme structureEdit an existing Magento theme to satisfy your business needsCreate print strategies for the Magento 2.0 themeGenerate specific blocks to improve the Magento 2.0 themeExplore specific Magento programming Methods to improve the Magento 2.0 themeCustomize the Magento 2.0 admin panel to create a new Magento 2.0 admin themeBuild a Twitter module for Magento 2.0 and integrate Magento 2.0 with social bookmarkingWho this book is for

This book is for web designers and developers with existing knowledge of CSS, HTML, and XML who wish to create themes for Magento 2. Existing Magento 1.x theme designers who now want to develop themes for Magento 2 will also find this book useful.

 

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Preface
1
Introduction to Magento 2
7
Exploring Magento Themes
31
Magento 2 Theme Layout
49
Magento UI Library
70
Creating a Responsive Magento 2 Theme
87
Magento 2 Styles Debugging
113
Magento UI Components
132
Magento Layout Development
151
Magento 2 JavaScript
176
Social Media in Magento 2
197
Theme Development Best Practices
222
Magento Theme Distribution
243
Index
255
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Fernando J. Miguel is a Certified Professional Scrum Master by the Scrum Alliance, with experience in Analysis and Web Application Development since 2003. He has been working with Project Development with Design Patterns, MVC, Object Oriented Programming and Agile. Fernando also has experience with Content Management Systems (CMS), Wordpress, Joomla, Magento 2, PHP, Java, Node.js, Android, SQL, NoSQL, Cloud Computing. Fernando has a bachelor degree at Information Systems (Centro Universitrio Mdulo - Brazil), specialization in Project Management / PMI-PMBOK (Universidade Cruzeiro do Sul - Brazil), specialization in Informatics on Health (Universidade Federal de So Paulo - Brazil) and currently he is pursuing a master's degree in Electronic Engineering Computer - Informatics at Instituto de Tecnologia e Aeronutica (ITA), one of the best technology institute in Brazil. Dedication To my grandmother Mildes and my mother Edneia, wherever they are, I'm sure they are very happy with my work. To my beloved wife Elizabete for the countless hours of patience with my work. Love you.

Richard Carter is a seasoned front-end web developer who has worked with Magento since 2008. He lives in Newcastle upon Tyne in the North East of England. He is the founder of the e-commerce agency Peacock Carter, an e-commerce and web design agency based in the North East of England, and has worked for clients including the Scottish Government, City & Guilds, NHS, and the University of Edinburgh. Richard is the author of four books on Magento, including Magento Responsive Theme Design, and has written three further books on e-commerce and content management systems.

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