As the documentation on Magento is a bit…spread around the web: here’s a collection of links to guides and hints how to deal with magento’s templating system (partially german). I will add more as I find them.
- Designer’s Guide to Magento
- Designer’s Guide to Magento (PDF)
- Theming Magento Commerce (many links are from there)
- Designing for Magento
- Magento folder structure
- How to build a template with blocks
- Add a new layout template
- Change texts in locale file
- List of available XML handles
- Terminologie im Online-Shop Magento