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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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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2014
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ISBN-13 9781783288236
Length 310 pages
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Andrea Sacca Andrea Sacca
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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

Developing the footer


The footer I designed for this theme is made up of two rows and two main columns in the first row. We will put the static contents such as the footer company's description, footer links, social links, and card image in CMS static blocks.

Hence, the user who manages the store can easily manage the footer from the admin panel. The final result will be similar to what is shown in the following screenshot:

All the links and the text in the footer are made of CMS blocks, so let's see the HTML structure. The footer file footer.phtml is located at app/design/frontend/bookstore/default/template/page/html/ like the header file.

The HTML code of the footer will look as follows:

<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-4">
<?php echo $this->getChildHtml('footer-company') ?>
</div>
<div class="col-md-8">
<div class="row">
<?php echo $this->getChildHtml('footer-cmslinks') ?>
<hr>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="col...
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