Here are the Core Principles for Theming in Magento, where you can learn and design the theme for Magento.

Duration: 16 hours, Eight 2-hour sessions

For frontend developers and designers—Essential theme development skills, for customizing the look and feel of websites on the Magento eCommerce platform.

Target audience

This course is for frontend & UI developers, and producers who will create and customize themes for the Magento Enterprise Edition platform. Students should have experience theming/skinning other complex websites.

Prerequisites

Students must have a good knowledge of HTML and CSS. One should also be comfortable editing it directly, not just using a WYSIWYG editor. Students should also be comfortable working with FTP clients. Some experience with PHTML and PHP is helpful but not required. Students should also already be familiar with the Magento Enterprise Edition feature set and frontend functionality. and carrying forward with learning Core Principles for Theming in Magento

Course Overview

This course provides a strong introduction to Magento’s templating system and best practices. Class time combines lectures, guided examples, and hands-on lab exercises. 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.

Learning Objectives 

After this course, students will be able to:

• Customize both the look and feel and the functionality of a website at the theme level.
• Create new themes from scratch and build them in a way that ensures the best possible upgrade path for their websites.