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Magento 2 Theme Design - Second Edition

By : Richard Carter
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Magento 2 Theme Design - Second Edition

By: 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 (18 chapters)
Magento 2 Theme Design - Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Showcase of Magento themes


There is a plethora of e-commerce websites that make use of Magento, and some of them truly demonstrate how flexible Magento can be when it comes to theming. Here is a selection of live Magento stores that really push the platform beyond the typical Magento themes you've already seen.

Venroy

Venroy is a menswear department store in Australia. Their Magento 2 store (https://www.venroy.com.au) follows the basic Magento 2 design principles and RWD design:

The store's homepage was built in a different way compared to the Luma default theme available in Magento 2. The primary navigation of the Venroy website, for example, is displayed in the top-center of the screen and it makes it highly visible to customers.

When interacted with, the store's category view expands to display more specific sub-categories:

The product detail view is also heavily customized, with information on the product, delivery, and size guides all provided with their own separate blocks:

Alcatel Onetouch

Alcatel Onetouch (http://www.alcatelonetouch.us/) is an international mobile technology brand that adopts Magento 2 to sell its products:

As you can see, the homepage is quite heavily customized, with the featured products displayed on the homepage.

The product detail page, which is part of the Magento store, is similarly styled in an appealing way, with plenty of screen space given to information such as the product reviews, details, technical specifications, and manual:

Cultcha Kids

Cultcha Kids (https://www.cultchakids.com.au/) is a toy store, and is therefore, focused on a younger audience, with specific and famous brands:

The product detail page is fully customized to the store's purposes and audience, as you can see in the following screenshot: