Magento 2 - Build World-Class online stores

Create rich and compelling solutions for Magento 2 by developing and implementing solutions, themes, and extensions

Key Features:

- Be proficient in the main functionalities, resources, and system structure of Magento 2

- Get to grips with this practical and hands-on guide to raise your web development skills to the next level

- Packed with several advanced recipes, not just to manage your online store, but to extend and design it as well

Book Description:

Magento is the leading e-commerce software trusted by world`s leading organizations. Used by thousands of merchants for their transactions worth billions, it provides the flexibility to customize the content and functionality of your website. Our Magento Course will help you gain knowledge and skills that are required to design & develop world class online stores.

Magento 2 Development Essentials - This book begins by setting up Magento 2 before gradually moving onto setting the basic options of the Sell System. You will learn Search Engine Optimization aspects, create design and customize theme layout, and adjust the Magento System to achieve great performance.

Magento 2 Cookbook - This book is divided into several recipes, which show you which steps to take to complete a specific action. It will cover configuring your categories and products, performance tuning, creating a theme, developing a module etc. At the end of this book, you will gain the knowledge to start building a success website.

Mastering Magento 2 - This is a comprehensive guide to using the all new features and interface of Magento 2 to build, extend, and design online stores. This book is your roadmap to managing your Magento store which teaches advanced and successful techniques. Focusing on Magento's Community version, this book offers you advanced guidance on managing, optimizing, and extending your store while taking advantage of the new features of Magento 2.

This Learning Path combines some of the best that Packt has to offer in one complete, curated package. It includes content from the following Packt products

- Magento 2 Development Essentials by Fernando J. Miguel

- Magento 2 Cookbook by Ray Bogman and Vladimir Kerkhoff

- Mastering Magento 2 by Bret Williams and Jonathan Bownds

What You Will Learn:

- Install and set up the Magento Ecosystem

- Carry out performance adjustments to speed up your Magento system

- Transfer your Magento 1 database to Magento 2 using the Magento 2 system tools

- Build a Magento 2 multi-store by creating a root catalog, subdirectories, and products

- Design custom themes within the Magento 2 framework

- Create extensions using Magento 2

- Discover what makes Magento 2 different and more powerful

Who this book is for:

The ideal target audience for this course could be anyone who wants to mould their skills in building amazing e-commerce websites using Magento. We begin right from getting you started with Magento to becoming an expert at building your own online stores with it.

Fernando J. Miguel is a Certified Professional Scrum Master by the Scrum Alliance, with experience in Analysis and Web Application Development since 2003. He has been working with Project Development with Design Patterns, MVC, Object Oriented Programming and Agile. Fernando also has experience with Content Management Systems (CMS), Wordpress, Joomla, Magento 2, PHP, Java, Node.js, Android, SQL, NoSQL, Cloud Computing. Fernando has a bachelor degree at Information Systems (Centro Universitrio Mdulo - Brazil), specialization in Project Management / PMI-PMBOK (Universidade Cruzeiro do Sul - Brazil), specialization in Informatics on Health (Universidade Federal de So Paulo - Brazil) and currently he is pursuing a master's degree in Electronic Engineering Computer - Informatics at Instituto de Tecnologia e Aeronutica (ITA), one of the best technology institute in Brazil. Dedication To my grandmother Mildes and my mother Edneia, wherever they are, I'm sure they are very happy with my work. To my beloved wife Elizabete for the countless hours of patience with my work. Love you.

Ray Bergman is an IT professional and Magento evangelist from the Netherlands. He started working with computers in 1983, as a hobby at first. In the past, he has worked for KPN, a large Dutch Telecom company, as a senior security officer. He has been the CTO of Wild Hibiscus, Netherlands, since 2010, and co-founder and business creator of Yireo until 2011. Jira ICT since 2005, and 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 during the day is business/product development and training webmasters and consultants about the power of Magento, from the basics up to an advanced level. He has trained over 1000 Magento and 750 Joomla experts worldwide since 2005. During Magento events like Magento Developers Paradise, Meet Magento and Magento Live he is regular speakers since 2009. He has participated in reviewing Mastering Magento (2012), Mastering Magento (2013) the video, Mastering Magento Theme Design (2014), Magento Administration Guide (2014) and Learning Magento Theme Development (2014). The writing of this book was a big thing for me. I spend every free minute with passion in writing this. I had many doubts and thoughts as a dyslexic person to overcome this big challenge. But I never thought that writing this would give me lots of self-esteem, peace and joy. This would not have happened without the loving support and patient of my wife Mette and daughter Belize. Joining forces with my co-writing Vladimir was a lot of fun. Sharing thoughts and inside about our Magento passion was great. Last, but not least, I would like to thank all the people who made this writing possible.

Vladimir Kerkhoff is an experienced IT professional, 4 times Magento Certified Developer from the Netherlands and working with Magento since late 2009. Currently Vladimir is the founder/owner of Genmato BV, a Magento extension development company. He is also available for cool freelance projects. Vladimir has a long carrier in the IT industry, he started his carrier in 1992 at an IT company managing customer corporate networks (Bionet, Novell Netware and Windows Server). In 1996 he was co-founder and CTO of Perfect InterNetworking Solutions (PINS) a large Dutch Managed Hosting provider. After leaving PINS in 2009 he co-founded eFulFillers offering webshop fulfilment services based on the Magento platform. The writing of this book was a nice new experience, forcing myself to dive into the new Magento 2 code and learning the new methods that are available. Joining forces with my co-writing Ray was a lots of fun. Sharing thoughts and inside about our Magento passion was great. Last, but not least, I would like to thank all the people who made this writing possible.