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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

Magento 2 UI


The User Interface (UI) has been the subject of great relevance to applications, websites, and software that aim to deliver simple, easy to use content to users.

According to the Usability.gov website (http://www.usability.gov), the leading resource for user design (UX) best practices and guidelines (favored among practitioners and students in both government and private sectors), an ideal UI focuses on anticipating what users might need to do, and ensures that the interface has elements that are easy to access, understand, and use in order to facilitate those actions:

As can be seen in previous chapters, one of the major changes between Magento 1 and Magento 2 was the adoption and improvement of technologies in order to generate better results, such as the following:

  • Better performance

  • Support for different devices

  • Maintainability

  • Scalability

According to these premises, and following this book's scope, the system performance has better results when using techniques and technologies...