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Magento 2 Theme Design
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Magento 2 Theme Design: Create stunning and responsive Magento 2 themes for your business , Second Edition

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Magento 2 Theme Design

Chapter 2.  Exploring Magento Themes

"It's an up and down thing, the human goals, because the human is always an explorer, an adventurist" - Cesar Millan

As you've already seen, Magento 2 can be a complex platform to customize, so this chapter will help you to explore Magento 2 themes, including the following:

  • Magento terminology
  • What a Magento theme is: the elements that comprise a Magento 2 theme
  • Theme hierarchy in Magento 2
  • Magento's Blank and Luma themes
  • Installing and activating a Magento 2 theme

Magento terminology

Before you look at Magento themes, it's beneficial to know the difference between what Magento calls vendors and what Magento calls themes and the distinguishing factors of websites and stores.

Magento vendors and themes

According to the official documentation, a Magento theme is a component that provides a visual design for an entire application area using a combination of custom templates, layouts, styles, or images. Themes are implemented by different vendors and are intended to be distributed as additional packages for Magento, similar to other components.

Each vendor can have one or more themes attached to it, so you can develop different themes inside the same vendor:

Magento vendors and themes

Each theme can have specific rules and custom layout files providing better flexibility both for administrators and developers. The Magento 2 theme structure can be described as follows:

Magento vendors and themes

The way that Magento's theme structure works is quite simple. Each <Vendor>_<Module&gt...

What makes a Magento theme?

A Magento theme is a collection of files that define the look, layout, and other outputs from the Magento system.

Unique aspects of a Magento theme

Magento 2 themes differ from design implementations in other content management systems and e-commerce platforms in a few key ways:

  • Maximum ability to customize Magento
  • Support for multiple concurrent themes
  • They offer an uninterrupted workflow
  • They minimize debugging time for errors

Magento's theming system provides the ability to highly customize the way Magento 2 looks to your customers: you can customize every aspect of your Magento store through layout, CSS, JavaScript, templates, and local files.

The support for multiple concurrent themes is another feature that makes Magento somewhat unique in its field, allowing you to style your store differently with Magento.

Default Magento 2 themes

By default, Magento 2 comes with two different themes:

  1. Luma: Created with the purpose to initiate the understanding of Magento 2's theme structure. It's highly recommended not to use this as your production theme.
  2. Blank: Provides the basic theme structure, used as a boilerplate to develop new themes in Magento 2.

You can easily preview the Luma theme on the Magento demonstration site at http://demo2.aheadworks.com , provided by aheadWorks Company (http://www.aheadworks.com).

Magento Luma theme

The Luma theme implements responsive web design (RWD) as a good practice to use in theme development, and inherits code and layout from the Blank theme. The Magento 2 Blank theme, found in the vendor/magento/theme-frontend-blank folder, is the basic Magento theme and is declared as the parent theme of Luma. How is it possible? Logically, Magento has distinct folders for every theme, but Magento is very smart and reuses code. Magento takes advantage of theme inheritance...

Blocks and pages in Magento

Magento uses blocks to differentiate between the various components of its functionality, the idea being that this makes it easier for Magento developers and Magento theme designers to customize the functionality of Magento and the look and feel of Magento respectively.

A content block displays the generated HTML provided by Magento for any given feature. Content blocks are used within Magento structural blocks. Examples of content blocks in Magento include the following:

  • The search feature
  • Product listings
  • The mini cart
  • Category listings
  • Site navigation links
  • Callouts (advertising blocks)

Simply, content blocks are the what of a Magento theme: they define what type of content appears within any given page or view within Magento.

Usually, the blocks are available in a visual hierarchy from a page. A typical structure of a three-column block in a Magento theme includes the following:

  • Header
  • Primary area
  • Left column
  • Right column
  • Footer

Blocks and pages in Magento

Magento has a flexible theme system. Beyond...

Magento terminology


Before you look at Magento themes, it's beneficial to know the difference between what Magento calls vendors and what Magento calls themes and the distinguishing factors of websites and stores.

Magento vendors and themes

According to the official documentation, a Magento theme is a component that provides a visual design for an entire application area using a combination of custom templates, layouts, styles, or images. Themes are implemented by different vendors and are intended to be distributed as additional packages for Magento, similar to other components.

Each vendor can have one or more themes attached to it, so you can develop different themes inside the same vendor:

Each theme can have specific rules and custom layout files providing better flexibility both for administrators and developers. The Magento 2 theme structure can be described as follows:

The way that Magento's theme structure works is quite simple. Each <Vendor>_<Module> corresponds a specific...

What makes a Magento theme?


A Magento theme is a collection of files that define the look, layout, and other outputs from the Magento system.

Unique aspects of a Magento theme

Magento 2 themes differ from design implementations in other content management systems and e-commerce platforms in a few key ways:

  • Maximum ability to customize Magento

  • Support for multiple concurrent themes

  • They offer an uninterrupted workflow

  • They minimize debugging time for errors

Magento's theming system provides the ability to highly customize the way Magento 2 looks to your customers: you can customize every aspect of your Magento store through layout, CSS, JavaScript, templates, and local files.

The support for multiple concurrent themes is another feature that makes Magento somewhat unique in its field, allowing you to style your store differently with Magento.

Default Magento 2 themes


By default, Magento 2 comes with two different themes:

  1. Luma: Created with the purpose to initiate the understanding of Magento 2's theme structure. It's highly recommended not to use this as your production theme.

  2. Blank: Provides the basic theme structure, used as a boilerplate to develop new themes in Magento 2.

You can easily preview the Luma theme on the Magento demonstration site at http://demo2.aheadworks.com , provided by aheadWorks Company (http://www.aheadworks.com).

Magento Luma theme

The Luma theme implements responsive web design (RWD) as a good practice to use in theme development, and inherits code and layout from the Blank theme. The Magento 2 Blank theme, found in the vendor/magento/theme-frontend-blank folder, is the basic Magento theme and is declared as the parent theme of Luma. How is it possible? Logically, Magento has distinct folders for every theme, but Magento is very smart and reuses code. Magento takes advantage of theme inheritance. You will...

Blocks and pages in Magento


Magento uses blocks to differentiate between the various components of its functionality, the idea being that this makes it easier for Magento developers and Magento theme designers to customize the functionality of Magento and the look and feel of Magento respectively.

A content block displays the generated HTML provided by Magento for any given feature. Content blocks are used within Magento structural blocks. Examples of content blocks in Magento include the following:

  • The search feature

  • Product listings

  • The mini cart

  • Category listings

  • Site navigation links

  • Callouts (advertising blocks)

Simply, content blocks are the what of a Magento theme: they define what type of content appears within any given page or view within Magento.

Usually, the blocks are available in a visual hierarchy from a page. A typical structure of a three-column block in a Magento theme includes the following:

  • Header

  • Primary area

  • Left column

  • Right column

  • Footer

Magento has a flexible theme...

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Key benefits

  • Realize the full potential of theme design in Magento 2
  • Design attractive themes for your e-commerce store to make them stand out amongst the crowd
  • Practical skills and examples ensure you can take what you’ve learnt to your own projects – limited only by your own creativity!

Description

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.

Who is this book for?

This book is for web designers and developers with existing knowledge of CSS, HTML, and XML who wish to create themes for Magento 2. Existing Magento 1.x theme designers who now want to develop themes for Magento 2 will also find this book useful.

What you will learn

  • Implement a local development Magento environment
  • Understand the workings of the Magento theme structure
  • Edit an existing Magento theme to satisfy your business needs
  • Create print strategies for the Magento 2.0 theme
  • Generate specific blocks to improve the Magento 2.0 theme
  • Explore specific Magento programming Methods to improve the Magento 2.0 theme
  • Customize the Magento 2.0 admin panel to create a new Magento 2.0 admin theme
  • Build a Twitter module for Magento 2.0 and integrate Magento 2.0 with social bookmarking

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1. Introduction to Magento 2 Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
2. Exploring Magento Themes Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
3. Magento 2 Theme Layout Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
4. Magento UI Library Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
5. Creating a Responsive Magento 2 Theme Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
6. Magento 2 Styles Debugging Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
7. Magento UI Components Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
8. Magento Layout Development Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
9. Magento 2 JavaScript Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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Nice book to learn leant megento theme development
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Infocurci Feb 28, 2020
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sono molto soddisfatto dell'acquisto, si tratta di un testo chiaro e completo, con parecchie pagine (e non, come certi testi, pagine di screenshot...).
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E' un ottimo libro come primo approccio al design dei temi su Magento 2.Gli argomenti vengono trattati in modo chiaro e ordinato.Ad ogni modo per padroneggiare l'argomento sono necessari degli approfondimenti.
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Pawel Oct 23, 2019
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Personally, I do t recommend this book.A lot of images, I know that images should support text but I'm not sure if in this book case far too many images not enoth text.
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Very difficult to follow all the steps described in the book. Some steps are missing. You need already quite a good understanding of Magento developing. Understanding the english translation is quite difficult. Book is useless to me, although I have experience in PHP, HTML, CSS, XML.
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