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Magento 2 Theme Design

You're reading from   Magento 2 Theme Design Create stunning and responsive Magento 2 themes for your business

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785888229
Length 288 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Richard Carter Richard Carter
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Fernando J Miguel Fernando J Miguel
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Preface 1. Introduction to Magento 2 FREE CHAPTER 2. Exploring Magento Themes 3. Magento 2 Theme Layout 4. Magento UI Library 5. Creating a Responsive Magento 2 Theme 6. Magento 2 Styles Debugging 7. Magento UI Components 8. Magento Layout Development 9. Magento 2 JavaScript 10. Social Media in Magento 2 11. Theme Development Best Practices 12. Magento Theme Distribution

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...

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