Mastering Magento Theme Design

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Mastering Magento Theme Design

By : Andrea Sacca

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Mastering Magento Theme Design

By: Andrea Sacca

Overview of this book

Mastering Magento Theme Design

Mastering Magento Theme Design

Credits

About the Author

About the Author

About the Reviewers

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

Free Chapter

Introducing Magento Theme Design

Introducing Magento Theme Design

The basic concepts of a Magento theme

The structure of a Magento theme

Creating the theme

Tips and tricks

Creating a Responsive Magento Theme with Bootstrap 3

Creating a Responsive Magento Theme with Bootstrap 3

An introduction to Bootstrap

Downloading Bootstrap (the current Version 3.1.1)

Downloading and including jQuery

Integrating the files into the theme

Defining the main layout design template

Developing the header

Creating the navigation bar

Developing the footer

Customizing Our Custom Theme

Customizing Our Custom Theme

Developing the home page

Customizing the left sidebar

Customizing the main content

Customizing the other pages of the theme

Adding Incredible Effects to Our Theme

Adding Incredible Effects to Our Theme

Introducing CSS3 transitions

Creating an animated cart in the header

Creating a stunning CSS3 3D flip animation

Creating a custom product images gallery

Adding a custom font to our theme

Adding a custom icon font to our theme

Making the Theme Fully Responsive

Making the Theme Fully Responsive

Using specific CSS3 media queries

Optimizing the theme for multiple devices

Tips and tools for responsive coding

Adding mobile icons

Making the Theme Socially Ready

Making the Theme Socially Ready

Getting started with social media integration

Integrating the social plugin in the product page

Integrating the code in the product page

Adding the Facebook Like box to the left sidebar

Creating a Magento Widget

Creating a Magento Widget

Getting started with Magento widgets

Developing a widget

Creating a widget with options

Adding the widget in the admin panel

Creating a Theme Admin Panel

Creating a Theme Admin Panel

Creating the theme options module

Overviewing the System.xml fields

Creating the advanced admin options panel

Interfacing the admin panel with the theme

Advanced options features

Creating a visual color picker in admin

A quick recap of the theme's option panel

Customizing the Backend of Magento

Customizing the Backend of Magento

An overview of the admin design

Changing the default admin panel

Creating a custom Magento admin theme

Creating a custom login page

Customizing the retrieve password form

Installing the Magento Go admin theme

Packaging and Selling the Theme

Packaging and Selling the Theme

Collecting and placing all the folders and files under one folder

Creating the live demo preview

Creating the documentation of the theme

Packaging the theme

Selling the theme on ThemeForest

Inserting the theme on the Magento Connect site

Support and updates

Conclusions and Credits

Conclusions and Credits

Official Magento resources

Useful websites on Magento

Free resources for design, UI, and web design

Index

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Creating the live demo preview

Now you have to test the theme pack by creating a live demo of the theme online, but we will cover this in the next section.

Creating the live demo preview will help you to conduct an additional test on your theme to check if everything is working as expected. If it is, you can proceed to the next step.

The performance of the sever

Please keep in mind that the online demo will be accessed by a large number of visitors, mostly during the initial days after your theme is made available on a marketplace such as ThemeForest. So, make sure that your server is optimized for Magento and has high performance.

To check if the server is compatible with a Magento installation, you can perform the following steps:

Download the magento-check.php file from http://www.magentocommerce.com/_media/magento-check.zip.
Extract the file and upload it on your server into the Magento installation folder, for example, http://www. sitename .com/magento_root/magento_check.php.
Then, open the...