Course Description
This course will introduce Magento 1 front end developers to the Magento 2 platform. Students will understand the fundamentals of Magento’s templating system and learn how Magento themes work and all the components of a theme, especially layouts, page templates and block templates. Students will learn to customize both the look and feel and the functionality of a website at the theme level. This course is based on Magento Community Edition v2.1.0
- Unit 1: Overview of Theming in Magento
- Basics of Magento
- Configuration
- Inheritance
- Theme Creation
- File Types
- Deployment
- Unit 2: Theme Architecture
- Core principles for Theming
- Magento + LESS
- Magento UI Library
- Compliation/ Processing
- Unit 3: Layout XML, Blocks, & Templates
- Core Principles of Theming
- Layout Basics
- Layout Files
- XML File Types
- Page Layout Declaration
- Page Configuration
- Page Customization Tasks
- Blocks
- Templates & Customization
- Template Security
Getting Started
Currently there is a group that has access to the Magento U platform. You can get started by going to this link: here