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    Learning Magento Theme Development
    Learning Magento Theme Development
    Learning Magento Theme Development
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    Learning Magento Theme Development

    By Richard Carter

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    This book is for web designers and developers with existing knowledge of CSS, HTML, and XML, who wish to learn more about Magento-specific theming techniques. Some knowledge of PHP may be useful, but is not necessary.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPackt Publishing
    Release dateAug 20, 2014
    ISBN9781783280629
    Learning Magento Theme Development
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    Richard Carter

    Richard Carter, MFA, is Co-Founder & Director of the Community Shakespeare Company for young actors. His award-winning plays have been produced from Seattle to London. His verse adaptations of classic literature motivate and enchant actors and audiences, pre-school through adult. Richard lives with his family on an island in Washington State.

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      Book preview

      Learning Magento Theme Development - Richard Carter

      Table of Contents

      Learning Magento Theme Development

      Credits

      About the Author

      About the Reviewers

      www.PacktPub.com

      Support files, eBooks, discount offers, and more

      Why subscribe?

      Free access for Packt account holders

      Preface

      What this book covers

      What you need for this book

      Who this book is for

      Conventions

      Reader feedback

      Customer support

      Downloading the example code

      Errata

      Piracy

      Questions

      1. Introduction to Magento and Magento Themes

      What is a Magento theme?

      Magento's default themes

      The default theme

      The category page layout

      The list mode layout

      Checkout

      The blank theme

      The iPhone theme

      The modern theme

      Magento terminology

      Scope in Magento

      Magento websites, stores, and store views

      Using multiple stores in Magento

      Using multiple store views in Magento

      Magento theme files

      Skin files

      Layout files

      Template files

      Locale files

      Packages

      Magento theme hierarchy

      Summary

      2. Magento Theming Basics

      Creating a new Magento theme

      Enabling a Magento theme

      Changing your Magento store's logo

      Customizing your store's favorites icon (favicon)

      Customizing Magento's product watermark image

      Using product images in Magento

      Customizing Magento's product placeholder images

      Using the Magento Template Path Hints

      Summary

      3. Magento Templates

      Providing layout style for your Magento theme

      Customizing your Magento store's header

      Providing CSS for Magento's navigation dropdowns

      Altering the header.phtml template

      Customizing Magento's search box

      Adding a static block to a Magento template

      Creating a new static block

      Inserting the static block into a template

      Customizing your Magento store's footer

      Listing all top-level categories in your Magento store

      Customizing your store's checkout and cart

      Styling the cart page

      Styling the checkout page

      Summary

      4. Magento Layout

      Adding local.xml to your Magento theme

      Using layout to change your default Magento page template

      Types of blocks within Magento

      Changing a page's template using the XML layout

      Changing a page's layout using Magento's CMS tool

      Adding a static block to a page using the Magento layout

      Assigning a static block to a page in Magento's CMS

      Changing the ordering of blocks in Magento's sidebar

      Repositioning a block below a specific block

      Reordering a block above all other blocks

      Reordering a block below all other blocks

      Removing unnecessary blocks from Magento's sidebar

      Customizing the home page's layout

      Adding new product block to the home page

      Marking products as new in Magento

      Using XML layout to add the New Products block to your store's home page

      Summary

      5. Social Media and Magento

      Integrating a Twitter feed into your Magento store

      Creating your Twitter widget

      Embedding your Twitter feed into a Magento template

      Integrating a Facebook Like Box into your Magento store

      Getting the embedding code from Facebook

      Adding the embed code into your Magento templates

      Including social share buttons in your product pages

      Styling the product page a little further

      Integrating AddThis

      Integrating product videos from YouTube into the product page

      Product attributes in Magento

      Creating a new attribute for your video field

      Adding a YouTube video to a product using the new attribute

      Inserting the video attribute into your product view template

      Summary

      6. Advanced Magento Theming

      Adding a custom print style sheet to your Magento store

      Using locales to translate phrases in your store

      Creating a Magento locale file

      The translate function

      Using Google Web Fonts and @font-face

      Including Google Web Font in your store's theme

      Referencing Google Web Font in your Magento theme's style sheet

      Styling Magento's layered navigation

      Enabling layered navigation in Magento categories

      Assigning attributes for layered navigation

      Creating a custom 404 not found error page

      Altering the error page's content

      Using snippets to enhance search engine listings

      Summary

      7. Magento Theming for Mobile and Tablet Devices

      Using CSS media queries to create breakpoints for different device widths

      Adding the meta viewport element to your Magento theme

      Adding a CSS media query to your style sheet

      Making images responsive for your Magento theme

      Developing responsive navigation

      Adding mobile icons for Windows and Apple devices

      Adding an Apple home icon to your Magento store

      Adding a Windows icon to your Magento store

      Summary

      8. Magento E-mail Templates

      Working with Magento e-mail templates

      Changing the e-mail template logo

      Sending test transactional e-mails

      Changing the color scheme of your Magento transaction e-mail templates

      Loading a Magento e-mail template

      Editing Magento e-mail templates through your theme

      Assigning an e-mail template to a transaction in Magento

      Altering variables in Magento e-mail templates

      Magento Insert Variable pop up

      Using the customer's first name only in e-mail templates

      Adding a static block to a Magento transactional e-mail template

      Creating the static block

      Adding the static block to the e-mail template

      Integrating the MailChimp subscription form into your Magento store

      Integrating the Campaign Monitor subscription form into your Magento store

      Summary

      Index

      Learning Magento Theme Development

      Learning Magento Theme Development

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      Credits

      Author

      Richard Carter

      Reviewers

      Ray Bogman

      Vali Lungu

      Ankit Sharma

      Mukund Thanki

      Acquisition Editor

      Sam Wood

      Content Development Editor

      Madhuja Chaudhari

      Technical Editors

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      Ankita Thakur

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      Copy Editors

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      Project Coordinators

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      Proofreaders

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      Indexer

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      Graphics

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      Ronak Dhruv

      Production Coordinator

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      Cover Work

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      About the Author

      Richard Carter is a web designer and frontend web developer based in Newcastle upon Tyne in the north east of England.

      His experience includes many open source e-commerce and content management systems, including Magento, MediaWiki, WordPress, and Drupal. He has worked with clients such as the University of Edinburgh, University College Dublin, Directgov, NHS Choices, and BusinessLink.gov.uk.

      He is the Creative Director at Peacock Carter Ltd (www.peacockcarter.co.uk), a web design and development agency based in the north east of England. He graduated from the University of Durham in Software Engineering, and currently lives in Newcastle upon Tyne. He blogs at http://www.earlgreyandbattenburg.co.uk and tweets as @RichardCarter and @PeacockCarter.

      This is the author's seventh book. He has previously written MediaWiki Skins Design, Magento 1.3 Theme Design, Magento 1.4 Theme Design, Joomla! 1.5 Templates Cookbook, and The Beginner's Guide to Drupal Commerce by Packt Publishing. He was also a technical reviewer for MediaWiki 1.1 Beginners Guide and Inkscape 0.48 Illustrator's Cookbook by Packt Publishing and The Definitive Guide To Drupal 7 by Apress.

      In particular, my thanks are due to Matthew, who has kept Peacock Carter on track while I was focusing on this book! Also, thanks to my family and friends, and Anna, whose constant support is much appreciated.

      About the Reviewers

      Ray Bogman is an IT professional and Magento evangelist from the Netherlands. He started working with computers in 1983, as a hobby. In the past, he worked for KPN, a large Dutch Telecom company, as a senior security officer.

      He was the CTO of Wild Hibiscus, Netherlands, until 2010. He is the founder of Yireo and was the business creator there until 2011. He is also the founder of Jira ICT and has been the CEO since 2005. He is also the CTO of SupportDesk B.V., which he co-founded in 2011.

      At SupportDesk B.V., he is a Magento, Joomla!, OroCRM, Web/Server/Mobile performance specialist and security evangelist. His focus

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