For a more in-depth discussion of controllers, refer to the Make a path accessible from the network and Restrict access to web accessible paths recipes in Chapter 14, Web Server Development.

For details on view inheritance, take a look at the Changing the existing views – View inheritance recipe in Chapter 10, Backend Views.

The code generated here makes use of microdata (https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/microdata.html) using definitions from http://schema.org - it is advised that you do the same for your publicly accessible websites in order to simplify reading your pages for machines. This also makes your content more accessible for search engines.

Odoo as a whole makes extensive use of bootstrap (http://getbootstrap.com), which you should use to get adaptive designs without much effort.