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Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2014

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781783288236

Length 310 pages

Edition Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Tools

Magento

Concepts

Ecommerce

Author (1):

Andrea Sacca

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Mastering Magento Theme Design

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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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

Installing the Magento Go admin theme

As you might know, Magento released a new version called Magento Go some time ago; it is a hosted e-commerce solution for small businesses.

If you have tried it, you will know that the admin panel has a custom skin that is very modern and clean, as shown in the following screenshot:

Johan Reinke, a French PHP developer, has created a perfect copy of the Magento Go admin theme and published it for free on GitHub. You can find the full article about this theme on his blog at http://www.bubblecode.net/en/2012/05/02/give-your-magento-admin-panel-a-facelift/. An extension is available on GitHub in the master branch at https://github.com/jreinke/magento-admin-theme.

The installation is very simple and quick; you only need to download the extension and upload it into your store root by using the following steps:

Disable the Inchoo AdminTheme extension that may conflict with this module.
Download the extension URL from the GitHub repository.
Extract the files into...

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