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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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Andrea Saccà is a web designer and a frontend developer based in the infamous, central area of Rome, Italy. He is also one of the first Magento Certified Front End Developers and he will be speaker to the first Meet Magento Italy 2014. After his studies in Graphic and Web Design in Rome, he worked for a few renowned web agencies as a web designer, and in 2012, he started his freelance career. After two years of freelancing, he started his own web agency, 1604lab (www.1604lab.com) in Rome. You can visit the twitter page for his website at @1604lab. He is a multiskilled web designer and a developer who specializes in creating an effective online presence for all kind of businesses, start-ups, and individuals, for customers all over the world. Andrea is a passionate and hard-working individual with a strong ambition, and yes, he's a bit of a geek too! In his free time he likes snowboarding, playing guitar, going to the cinema, and drinking some beer with his friends. You can follow Andrea on twitter at @andreasacca, and on his personal blog at www.andreasacca.it.
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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

Chapter 1. Introducing Magento Theme Design

Creating a Magento theme can be more complicated than any other CMS (Content Management System). This is because Magento has a complex structure and the files are located in multiple directories.

In this chapter, we will analyze the concepts and basic information that you need to know about the design of Magento, how to create the structure of a new theme, and how to activate it.

At the end of this chapter, you will be able to create the foundation of your theme, ready to be developed.

The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

  • The basic concepts of a Magento theme

  • The structure of a Magento theme

  • Structural blocks and content blocks

  • CMS blocks and pages

  • Variables

  • Widgets

  • Creating and activating a theme

  • Tips and tricks

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Andrea Saccà is a web designer and a frontend developer based in the infamous, central area of Rome, Italy. He is also one of the first Magento Certified Front End Developers and he will be speaker to the first Meet Magento Italy 2014. After his studies in Graphic and Web Design in Rome, he worked for a few renowned web agencies as a web designer, and in 2012, he started his freelance career. After two years of freelancing, he started his own web agency, 1604lab (www.1604lab.com) in Rome. You can visit the twitter page for his website at @1604lab. He is a multiskilled web designer and a developer who specializes in creating an effective online presence for all kind of businesses, start-ups, and individuals, for customers all over the world. Andrea is a passionate and hard-working individual with a strong ambition, and yes, he's a bit of a geek too! In his free time he likes snowboarding, playing guitar, going to the cinema, and drinking some beer with his friends. You can follow Andrea on twitter at @andreasacca, and on his personal blog at www.andreasacca.it.
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