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PrestaShop 1.3 Theming - Beginner's Guide

By : Hayati Hashim
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PrestaShop 1.3 Theming - Beginner's Guide

By: Hayati Hashim

Overview of this book

Themes in PrestaShop are unique and powerful tools to brand your store for a particular corporate image. Using custom themes you can control the look and functionality of your web store, thereby making your site extremely flexible. Although it might sound like an easy task to build a theme, it is quite challenging to create a custom theme that fits your business needs. This book's prime focus is guiding the readers without much technical know-how, thus enabling them to create a new theme that fulfills the needs of their PrestaShop store. By understanding practical ways to develop your theme for PrestaShop speedily, you can invest more time on developing attractive and unique raw materials. It will simplify the challenging task of creating a unique, new PrestaShop theme through easy-to-follow, practical steps. This book shows how to develop professional themes for your PrestaShop store using some simple steps. The book starts by exploring the various ways of changing the looks (including modules) of your PrestaShop store. It shows you how certain back office administration adjustments can affect the appearance and theme of your store. It then takes you through understanding the code modification of a default theme that results in a new look for your existing theme. The book also covers understanding the PrestaShop architecture and essential syntaxes that control the look of a PrestaShop store. You will also learn about the files that hold the key to themes. By the end of this book, you will have grasped the knowledge to make advanced changes by tweaking the right CSS and module files in order to achieve highly specific outcomes.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
PrestaShop 1.3 ThemingBeginner’s Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
4
Adjusting Style Sheets
Index

Getting to know the basics of PrestaShop theme


Before we get to know the basics of the PrestaShop theme CSS file, we need to get to know the tool we will be using to modify and check our files.

At this stage, you would have used Firefox at least for browsing websites. It is useful to go deeper than using it for browsing, as Firefox comes with many web development tools that can be very handy for working on your websites.

Other than those Notepads or editors we mentioned in the previous chapter, we will have to download and get hold of a web developer's tool which can be either Firebug or Web Developer extension.

Note

Firebug can be downloaded from: www.getfirebug.com

Click on Install Firebug For Firefox. Alternatively, you can also download it from Mozilla's Firefox Add-ons site.

Install it, restart Firefox, and it is ready to use.

Another common tool for web development is the Web Developer tool, which can be used with Firefox and Google Chrome. It is also an excellent tool that can assist...