There are two ways to install a Magento Theme:

• Quickstart Installation: Suitable if you have your first installation and want to get a whole new fresh site as our Demo.
• Manual Installation (including Theme Installation): Suitable if your store is full with content that you don’t want to overwrite.

2.1 Quickstart Installation:

Magentech provides SM Quickstart package for each theme which aims to ease the installation for users. Please note that with Quickstart, all your existing data will be overwritten. Thus, if you plan to start your site from the beginning, it will help you save much time of installing and configuring.

Note: Follow Magento 2.0 Installation Guide to install the Composer before doing this Quickstart installation.

Please follow steps below:

• Step 1: Download the quickstart package named as sm_viste_quickstart_pl_m2.2.0_v2.6.0
• Step 2: Extract and Upload the whole Quickstart package to your server. In Quickstart folder you will see the extracted folder that include all sample data
• Step 3: Create a Database for your Magento site

Note: You need to remember the database name to use in the next steps



• Step 4:Import database sample_data.sql under the folder sm_viste_quickstart_pl_m2.2.0_v2.6.0\data_quickstart

Note:

After successful import DO NOT run magento.

Now we are going to Set file system ownership and permissions. To perform all actions, you should use PuTTY – a free SSH and telnet client for Windows on your computer. When you have the command-line access, enter the following commands in the order shown:

cd <your Magento install dir>
chmod -R 777 pub
chmod -R 777 var
chmod -R 777 app/etc
		

Go Here to readmore about the action.

• Step 5: Run installation process by opening browser and navigate to your URL (where the Quickstart uploaded) to load default Magento installer and follow each step of the Installer so that the installation process can be set.



• Step 6: Choose Start Readiness Check. After Start Readiness Check is completed, select Next .


When you click on “Start Readiness Check”,the error could occur like the below image

You need to open your php.ini file and remove semicolon (;) in front of the following lines:

• ;extension=php_intl.dll
• ;extension=php_xsl.dll

After modification, need to save the file(php.ini) as well as need to restart the Apache Server and check out the result.


• Step 7: Enter server and database in step 2 and then click on Next.



• Step 8: Put your website link and continue to click on Next.



• Step 9: Customize your store: you can choose Time Zone, Currency and Languages.



• Step 10: You need to Create Admin Account. Enter your information and move to the next step.



• Step 11: In this step, you should click on the button: Install Now.


It will take some minutes to complete this installation process. If your window is the same as below, CONGRAT! You install this quickstart package successfully

After clicking on the button, the Admin Login screen will be opened and you can use admin credentials to login on this screen. It will open Admin panel after successful authentication.


2.2 Manual Installation

• Step 1: Please unzip ‘sm_viste_theme_m2.1.x-2.2.x_v2.6.0′ file and upload folders app; pub from the theme package to the root of your Magento site folder on your server.
  

  Note: You could change the name of this folder. However, if you want your website run correctly, it need to have the same name as the database.

• Step 2:

Now we are going to verify Composer installation, Deploy static content, Clear compiled code and the cache, Reindex the Magento 2 blocks. Remember that you have had the Composer before doing this step by following Magento 2.0 Installation Guide to get the Composer.
On Windows server environment, to perform all above actions, press WINDOWS KEY + R to open RUN dialog and type cmd to open Command Prompt.

Type cd PATH_TO_YOUR_MAGENTO2_FILES to enter in Magento 2 ROOT directory.

• 1. Now to verify Composer installation in above directory, type composer install.

If you get any error in this step, please check your Composer installation.

• 2. In this step, we are setting up static content to deploy on our Magento store. To perform this, type php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy.

If you get any error, check your PHP.EXE and PHP.INI Environment Variable

• 3. Clear compiled code and the cache by typing php bin/magento setup:upgrade in CMD. Typically, you use magento this command line to update components and each component can require different compiled classes.

• 4. And finally, to Reindex Magento Static Blocks type php bin/magento indexer:reindex.

Note:

1. Now we are going to Set file system ownership and permissions. To perform all actions, you should use PuTTY – a free SSH and telnet client for Windows on your computer. When you have the command-line access, enter the following commands in the order shown:

cd <your Magento install dir>
chmod -R 777 pub
chmod -R 777 var
chmod -R 777 app/etc
		

Go Here to readmore about the action.
2. Command usage:

 php /bin/magento catalog:images:resize 
 

The magento “catalog images:resize” command enables you to resize images for display on your storefront.
The message “Product images resized successfully” displays to confirm the command succeeded.

• Step 3: Log in to your Admin Panel (e.g. http://yourdomain.com/admin/)
  

  Note: If you are using the Admin Panel when copying folders in step 1, you need to log out and log in back.

• Step 4: Disable Cache: Go to System >> Tools >> Cache Management, click ‘Sellect All’ button, then choose ‘Disable’ and click ‘Submit’ button to complete the action.



• Step 5: Select “SM Viste” theme in Content>> Design>> Configuration page for Magento 2.1 version.



• Step 6: Click “Save Config” button to save your changes.

2.3 Theme Setting

In Magento admin panel, navigate to Stores>> Settings>> Configuration >> MAGENTECH.COM >> SM Viste and configure its settings as you want.


Please click Here to view the theme settings.

Set Below options

• Configure General Options with Color (of theme), Body Font, Elements Google Font, Menu for any store.
• Configure Theme Layout with Layout style
• Configure the Product Listing with Layout 1 Column, Layout 2 Columns, Layout 3 Columns
• Configure the Product Detail To zoom image of product, adjust Zoom Mode, Custom tab, and content, etc.
• Configure Socials : To connect with social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, Linkedin, Pinterest
• Configure Advanced : To Show Go to Top, Add to Cart, Add to Wishlist, Add to Compare
• Configure Developer: To Custom Css or Javascript
• Configure Theme Installation: To Import Static Blocks, Pages and Demo

2.4 Demo Installation

We have created One Click Installation for users to quickly set up your theme the same way our demo is set up.

In order to do demo installation, you should import Static Blocks, CMS Pages and Demo in Stores>> Settings>> Configuration >> MAGENTECH.COM >> SM Viste >> Theme Installation.

1. Press the buttons named ‘Static CMS Blocks’ and ‘Pages’ to import all default blocks and pages.


2. Click “Import Demo” button to install demo version that you prefer to install.


3. Please remember that: If you have imported these Static Blocks, Pages successfully, you would have all blocks and pages provided with this theme and you do not need to create any static blocks or pages manually as the following instruction of this document.

4. Flush Cache: After successfully import your demo, save Theme Settings and Design Settings and clear the cache by using this command as php bin/magento cache:flush in Command Prompt. Or you could go to System >> Tools >> Cache Management, click ‘Flush Magento Cache’ button to flush all the cache.