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I am designing a store and finding it hard to customize a theme. I have worked on html only but not on xml so please ignore my mistakes.

Is it good to make your own-theme or should i stick with the pre-installed theme and change/modify it?

Second, If I design a theme i have to design all the backend also? or magento automatically linked it with the admin-panel?

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You need to do some home-work for this first as you have lot of doubts regarding magento2 and its theme development.

You can check magento documentaion for complete details and link provided by @price in comment.

You are beginner do here are few things you which answer you questions and you can proceed further:

  1. You can create new theme from extending LUMA theme. Follow this
  2. No need to do anything in ADMIN for designing/developing front-end theme. In admin you only need to activate your developed-theme. You can do by simply going to ADMIN-> Content-> Design -> Configuration -> Edit. Documentation for more details.

Explaining more about create new theme: You can create new theme by following above provided link and only copy files which you need to change/modify. This is best practice for you at this level and this is how most of theme get developed by extending LUMA or BLANK. You should start with extending LUMA as mention in post.

Good luck.

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  • yeah i have doubts because i really dont know what is good approach in this. .
    – tech_geek
    Commented Sep 7, 2017 at 12:43
  • Please follow the answer and links mentioned in it. You will have good start. Just complete first step.
    – Jarnail S
    Commented Sep 7, 2017 at 12:44
  • Thank you for your comment really helpful. Just some things i want to ask is it necessary to extend luma theme. If i am starting from scratch so why not own theme desigining everything? second thing i was having hard time in changing the header color in luma theme and still not able to find this.
    – tech_geek
    Commented Sep 7, 2017 at 12:48
  • Yes, you should extend LUMA. (Best for you at this level). and for changing header color, you can post another question. We never edit core files so first to extend that.
    – Jarnail S
    Commented Sep 7, 2017 at 12:55
  • actually i am not asking how to change sorry for unclear comment. I want to ask will it be the same as changing colors in the luma ?
    – tech_geek
    Commented Sep 7, 2017 at 13:10
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Follow this official document to create a new storefront theme. You don't need to create admin theme until you want to make any changes in the admin panel design.

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  • Is it easy to make a new theme or should i have stick to the current theme and change the theme ?
    – tech_geek
    Commented Sep 7, 2017 at 11:37
  • It's easy and referred to create custom theme rather make changes in core theme.
    – Yogesh Agarwal
    Commented Sep 7, 2017 at 11:39
  • This theme will automatically be linked to my backend? i mean having widgets will be easy?
    – tech_geek
    Commented Sep 7, 2017 at 11:46
  • follow the steps from the link and the theme will work perfectly as you want
    – Yogesh Agarwal
    Commented Sep 7, 2017 at 12:04
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The best way to create your custom theme is to copy all files from Magento's Luma theme into your Design folder and then make changes you want. Also it is not an easy job to make frontend on Magento. So be brave :)

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  • thank you for you motivational comment Obscuro :). So it is a good option to change the current luma theme according to my needs? Like i want to change the font i want to change the colors of the headers.
    – tech_geek
    Commented Sep 7, 2017 at 11:35
  • not exactly, you need to go to vendor/magento/theme-frontend-luma and get all files from there to your (app/design/... ) theme folder (google how to make your own M2 theme) and only then you can modify your files. First rule of magento developers - "do not modify core files".
    – Obscuro
    Commented Sep 7, 2017 at 12:08
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    I would advice against copying all the files, it makes updates more difficult and provides much more code to maintain. Personally I prefer the method of only overriding what you need.
    – Ben Crook
    Commented Sep 7, 2017 at 12:21
  • i think its better to make a new custom theme.
    – tech_geek
    Commented Sep 7, 2017 at 12:37

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