Download or read book Magento 2 Theme Design - Second Edition written by Fernando J. Miguel and published by . This book was released on 2016-09-30 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Create stunning and responsive Magento 2 themes for your businessAbout This Book* This is the only book on the market that will help you realize the full potential of theme design in Magento 2* It will cover the intricacies of designing attractive themes for your e-commerce store, which will help you make your ecommerce stores look better* A practical guide to creating new themes and altering existing themes to customize the appearance of your Magento e-commerce storeWho This Book Is ForThis 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.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 bookmarkingIn DetailMagento 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.It begins 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.