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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

Layout instructions and types


There are two different ways to customize a layout on your Magento project. The first is to change the layout configuration files (XML) as was done in Chapter 7 , Magento UI Components. The second is to change the template files (phtml) as well, as tested in Chapter 5, Creating a Responsive Magento 2 Theme.

The layout configuration files are specially used to change the position of a wireframe elements page such as header, content, and footer to define which elements will be displayed at each point of the layout. Therefore, it is possible to control behaviors, adding and/or removing elements in a compartmentalized manner.

The layout configuration files have the following instructions in tags format and attributes, for manipulation of elements:

  • <block>: Refers to the specific block of content that can be in HTML format and uses templates (phtml) to render its contents

  • <container>: Groups elements that can be blocks and even other containers

  • before...