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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 customizations


There are layout customization tasks that are the most common when developing themes and adjusting layouts, either for displaying the modules that are exhibited for users of the store or to the Magento administrative area.

Let's apply some of these customization tasks in the Bookstore theme.

Set the page layout

It's time to apply some more improvements on the Bookstore theme using the configuration techniques for customization in the layout layer.

To start the settings, go to the home page of your local instance of Magento 2 (http://localhost/packt/) and browse any product page as per the following example:

At this point we have a defined layout with only one main column, as you can see in the previous screenshot, but if you add a second column in the main content area of the website to exhibit related products, product comparison, and even customized blocks, you will change the page layout.

By default, the Magento layout has three ways to view the main content of the page...