Magento Themes Design book by Richard Carter
Magento 1.3 Theme Design, by Richard Carter, is a guide to designing for the Magento Commerce ecommerce platform.
There's a review of my book on Dmitri Dulepov's website here.
Magento is an open-source project, and it's incredibly powerful.
I've designed for a lot of different software in the past - including MediaWiki (see my MediaWiki Skins Design book), WordPress and Drupal - and theming Magento presented a challenge. Its architecture means that it can be difficult to pin down exactly what you need to edit to effect an element, so Magento Theme Design is designed to help make the reader's life easier.
What does Magento Themes Design cover?
The book covers quite a wide range of topics, from the basics such as changing your store's logo and understanding the terminology surrounding Magento, to creating print stylesheets for Magento and integrating social media (quite a popular topic in my MediaWiki book).
The book is available from the publisher's website
I welcome errata and constructive criticism of the book (as does the publisher).
About the author of Magento Themes Design
Richard Carter is a founder of and web designer at Peacock Carter. Peacock Carter offers Magento Commerce consultancy to businesses and organisations of any size.