What this book covers

Chapter 1, Introducing Magento Theme Design, introduces the basic information that you need to create a customized Magento theme with all the required files, and a review about the files' structure.

Chapter 2, Creating a Responsive Magento Theme with Bootstrap 3, guides you to create the base for a responsive design of the theme with the integration of the famous frontend framework, Bootstrap 3.

Chapter 3, Customizing Our Custom Theme, guides you to develop a customized home page by adding the Bootstrap carousel as the main slider, a custom vertical navigation menu on the left sidebar, and a products grid.

We will also learn how to customize the other main pages of the theme.

Chapter 4, Adding Incredible Effects to Our Theme, helps you to insert awesome animations and CSS3 and jQuery effects into the theme, improving the aesthetics, usability, and graphic appeal to create a great visual impact.

Chapter 5, Making the Theme Fully Responsive, guides you in the optimization of the theme for mobile and tablet devices, solving the most commons problems related to the responsive design.

Chapter 6, Making the Theme Socially Ready, explains how to integrate social plugins in your theme to enable social sharing of the contents in some sections of the theme.

Chapter 7, Creating a Magento Widget, introduces the base of the Magento widgets and helps you learn how to create a customized module that provides a simple customized widget.

Chapter 8, Creating a Theme Admin Panel, explains how to create a custom Magento module that adds a control panel for the theme with configuration options to customize the theme from the backend.

Chapter 9, Customizing the Backend of Magento, explains how to improve the look and feel of the design of the Magento backend, and create a custom theme for the backend that will customize the administration area from the login page to the admin backend.

Chapter 10, Packaging and Selling the Theme, explains how to pack the theme with all the necessary files, for it to be sold on the most popular theme marketplaces.

Appendix, Conclusions and Credits, contains the useful links, resources, and credits mentioned in the book.