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Mastering Magento Theme Design

You're reading from   Mastering Magento Theme Design Magento is the super-capable open source e-commerce platform that's number one for a reason. By using this book to optimize your know-how, you'll be acquiring the ultimate in e-tail expertise for yourself and your clients.

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Published in Apr 2014
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ISBN-13 9781783288236
Length 310 pages
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Mastering Magento Theme Design
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Introducing Magento Theme Design FREE CHAPTER 2. Creating a Responsive Magento Theme with Bootstrap 3 3. Customizing Our Custom Theme 4. Adding Incredible Effects to Our Theme 5. Making the Theme Fully Responsive 6. Making the Theme Socially Ready 7. Creating a Magento Widget 8. Creating a Theme Admin Panel 9. Customizing the Backend of Magento 10. Packaging and Selling the Theme Conclusions and Credits Index

Tips and tools for responsive coding


The responsive design is the base of Bootstrap. By reading the official documentation, you will find a lot of useful tips and information to create fully responsive elements.

Now we are going to discuss the most important classes to integrate into our theme, to have the control while optimizing it for all the devices.

Hiding the unnecessary blocks for lower resolutions

With media queries, we can hide content on screens with smaller resolutions, show content on screens with a higher resolution, or vice versa. The easiest way to hide images or unnecessary blocks of content on mobile devices is by using some Bootstrap classes that would suit this purpose.

The following table taken from Bootstrap documentation shows all the classes that you can use to show or hide elements:

To learn more from Bootstrap, you can refer to its documentation by accessing the website (http://getbootstrap.com/css/#responsive-utilities) and navigating to CSS | Responsive utilities.

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