Category: magento

Magento Theme Development: Blocks and Layouts Magento’s fully modular architecture offers unlimited scalability and flexibility for your eCommerce store. This modularity extends to theme development, requiring a unique approach compared to other platforms. This guide introduces Magento’s key theming concepts—Structural Blocks, Content Blocks, and Layouts—and provides a step-by-step process for building a custom theme. Introducing Blocks and Layouts If you’re familiar with other eCommerce platforms, you may have preconceived notions about theming. With Magento, you’ll need to adapt to its unique structure, but the learning curve is manageable. The core…

Creating Magento Themes Using the Blank Theme A practical approach to creating custom Magento themes is to modify the pre-installed Blank theme, which provides a minimal set of graphics and CSS. This guide outlines the steps to create a new theme by building on the Blank theme’s foundation. Step 1: Set Up Theme Folders Create new theme folders in the app/design/frontend and skin/frontend directories, naming them after your new theme (e.g., our_new_theme). Copy the contents of the Blank theme’s folders into these new directories to serve as the starting point.…