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- Herausgeber: Packt Publishing
- Kategorie: Wissenschaft und neue Technologien
- Sprache: Englisch
Create stunning and responsive Magento 2 themes for your business
Key Features
- 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!
Book 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.
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
Who this book is 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.
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Magento 2 Theme Design - Second Edition
Magento 2 Theme Design - Second Edition
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About the Author
Fernando J Miguel has been working with software development since 2003 and has continued researching methods to improve his skills through hard work and commitment. He has worked with CMS since 2004 and Magento, specifically, since 2009.
A Certified Professional Scrum Master by the Scrum Alliance, he loves to apply agile as a way of life and improves himself to achieve excellence in work and customers and team satisfaction. He has a background on different technologies and is always seeking the best solution for the current project.
As a University professor, he motivates students to find their own paths and seek excellence in their professional IT careers.
Fernando has a bachelor's degree in Information Systems (Módulo University – Caraguatatuba/SP – Brazil). He has post graduated in Project Management/PMI-PMBOK (Cruzeiro do Sul University – São Paulo/SP – Brazil).
He worked as a Technical Reviewer for Magento 1.4 Theming cookbook, Mastering Magento, Mastering Magento [Video], Mastering Magento Theme Design.
He was the Author of Magento 2 Development Essentials (2016).
I dedicate all my work to my brother Wagner for all the support. Without family support, I never could be here. Thank you to all my family.
About the Reviewer
Richard Carter is a seasoned front-end web developer who has worked with Magento since 2008. He lives in Newcastle upon Tyne in the North East of England.
He is the founder of the e-commerce agency Peacock Carter, an e-commerce and web design agency based in the North East of England, and has worked for clients including the Scottish Government, City & Guilds, NHS, and the University of Edinburgh.
Richard is the author of four books on Magento, including Magento Responsive Theme Design, and has written three further books on e-commerce and content management systems.
Thanks to Gillian, who is forever at my side.
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Preface
Digital buyers are increasing the economy around the world, and Information Technology (IT) is providing the necessary subsidies to allow the customers to buy services and products over the Internet. According to the research conducted by Statista (http://goo.gl/BSCiuO), in 2016, 1.12 billion people worldwide are expected to buy goods and services online.
Since the launch of Amazon.com, the first commercial-free 24-hour e-commerce website, the universe of software development’s techniques have evolved and new approaches are emerging, such as cloud computing: previously, an embryonic idea, today a concrete application.
The Magento Commerce company, recognized as the leading e-commerce platform in the 2015 Internet Retailer Top 1000, B2B 300, and Hot 100 lists, is in constant evolution since the first Magento Community Edition (CE) system version in 2008. Launched recently, Magento CE 2.0 has great features and takes advantage of the newest client-server techniques, providing a mature e-commerce system and a promising professional area to explore.
Magento CE 2.0 works with a modern theming and layout framework, extensive and efficient APIs, stable interfaces with the business logic layer and, mainly, a reliable system to allow the implementation of custom functionalities.
Magento 2 Theme Development covers the newest concepts in Magento theme development. The mission of this book is to give to the readers the necessary information to start mastering the Magento Theme Development concepts.
Enjoy the read.
What this book covers
Chapter 1, Introduction to Magento 2, introduces you to the basic concepts of Magento 2, shows the Magento websites that are on the market, and guides you through building a local development environment Magento 2.
Chapter 2, Exploring Magento Themes, teaches you the structure of the themes in Magento 2, as well as the importance of the Luma and Blank themes.
Chapter 3, Magento 2 Theme Layout, shows you how to work with the Model-View-Controller architecture, the command-line interface, the layout system, and theme debuging.
Chapter 4, Magento UI Library, teaches you how to use the Magento UI library, LESS compilation, and CSS preprocessing.
Chapter 5, Creating a Responsive Magento 2 Theme, guides you to the development of a new theme for Magento 2.
Chapter 6, Magento 2 Styles Debugging, teaches you how to create a flow to test your styles, client-side debugging, server-side debugging, and the Grunt task runner.
Chapter 7, Magento UI Components, teaches you how to work with UI components: listing, grid, a form.
Chapter 8, Magento Layout Development, shows you the layout instructions, and the types, and techniques required to customize your template.
Chapter 9, Magento 2 JavaScript, teaches you how to work with JavaScript in Magento and jQuery widgets by developing a simple extension.
Chapter 10, Social Media in Magento 2, guides you through the development of a new extension that integrates Magento 2 with social media.
Chapter 11, Theme Development Best Practices, shows you the best practices of developing themes for Magento 2.
Chapter 12, Magento Theme Distribution, shows you an overview of the packaging process to sell and share your developed theme.
What you need for this book
The following software is recommended for maximum enjoyment:
Who this book is for
This book is for web developers, Magento developers, and students who want to work with Magento 2. This book builds a solid path to follow that will help you master the concepts of theme development in Magento 2.
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Chapter 1. Introduction to Magento 2
"Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn" - Steve Jobs.
The Internet is an important sector of many businesses, both large and small, in the modern world. It's now rare for a company to not have at least a basic web presence, and increasingly unlikely that a company's products are not sold online. Magento is a powerful e-commerce system, used by international organizations such as Nike, Nestlé, Gant, and Fun4Kids.
This is what we will see in this chapter:
As you will come to see, Magento is quite a large e-commerce system and this book will guide you through customizing its quirks and eccentricities.
What is Magento?
Magento (http://www.magentocommerce.com) is a highly customizable e-commerce platform and content management system. Magento is one of the most widely used e-commerce systems to create online stores around the world by providing management of inventory, orders, customers, payments, and much more. Magento has a powerful scalable architecture that follows the best software development patterns on the market. Take a look at the following screenshot:
Magento is written in the PHP programming language using an object-orientated architecture, allowing features such as additional payment gateways, integration with social networks such as Twitter and Facebook, and customization for different product types to be easily added.
The default installation of Magento provides a huge number of e-commerce and related features, supports multiple stores being managed from the same control panel, and importantly for us—provides the ability for very heavily customized themes.
At the beginning, Magento was very criticized for being slow when loading its pages, which could be at least partially mitigated with the use of built-in caches. However, in Magento 2 we have a considerable evolution on system performance with the adoption of the LESS preprocessor, Full Page Caching, Indexers Optimization, and the adoption of new techniques and technologies, as you will see in the following chapters.
Magento 2's features
As with other e-commerce systems, Magento allows products to be added, edited, manipulated, and organized within categories. You are able to control your product's names, descriptions, prices, and upload multiple photographs for each product in your store. Magento also lets you create variations of products in your store, so you can have one product that is available in multiple colors (such as blue, red, and black) within Magento. In other e-commerce systems, you may have to add the blue, red, and black products as three separate products.
In addition to these standard e-commerce features, Magento also has the ability to perform the following:
Additional features are available in Magento Enterprise Edition, but this book concentrates on Magento 2 Community Edition; everything in this book can be applied to all editions of Magento 2.
Differences between Magento 1 and Magento 2
There are some fairly major differences between Magento 1 and Magento 2. Magento 2 provides major updates on its previous version after some hard work to create the best solutions to old issues such as performance and security. The updates can be illustrated by the following list:
Magento 2, compared with Magento 1.9, shows some changes, but more than that, there is an improvement in the system's behavior and processes. The code is more organized; it separates the Magento framework's native extensions, providing a powerful environment for modularization and solution development:
The main changes in the structure of Magento 2 are as follows:
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For further information about the Magento 2 directory structure, please access http://devdocs.magento.com/guides/v2.0/extension-dev-guide/module-file-structure.html .
In Magento 1, the theme system works by rendering the layout files (PHTML) from the app/design/frontend/MyTheme directory and by rendering the CSS, JS, and Image files from the skin/frontend/MyTheme directory. However, in Magento 2, all the layout and CSS files are in the same directory, Theme.
The themes of Magento 2 are located in the app/design/frontend/<Vendor>/ directory. This location differs with built-in themes, such as the Luma theme, which is located in vendor/magento/theme-frontend-luma.
The different themes are stored in separate directories:
Each Vendor can have one or more themes attached to it, so you can develop different themes inside the same Vendor.
The theme structure of Magento 2 is illustrated as follows:
How Magento 2's theme structure works is quite simple to understand: each <Vendor>_<Module> corresponds a specific module or functionality of your theme. For example, Magento_Customer has specific CSS and HTML files to handle the customer module of the Magento vendor. Magento handles a significant number of modules. So, I strongly suggest you navigate to the vendor/magento/theme-frontend-luma folder to see the available modules for the default theme.
In the structure of Magento 2, we have three main files that manage the themes' behavior:
All the theme files, inside the structure explained in the previous section, can be divided into Static View Files and Dynamic View Files. The Static View Files are not processed by the server (images, fonts, js) and the Dynamic View Files are processed by the server before delivering the content to the user (template and layout files).
Static files generally are published in the following folders:
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For further information, please access the official Magento Theme structure documentation: http://goo.gl/ov3IUJ
In Chapter 2 , Exploring Magento Themes, you will see this structure in action by exploring the default themes of Magento 2. Now, let's take a look at a showcase of running Magento 2 solutions.
