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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

A brief background to Cascading Style Sheets


Let's get acquainted with what actually controls the color, font, and the formatting of your web pages. For this chapter, we will start with simple editing of the existing CSS files.

We won't be giving you a full course on CSS, as these theme modifications can easily be done through altering the syntaxes as we will show you how without even really understanding it. For starters, if you already know CSS, this chapter may be too easy for you. If we stick with explaining CSS too much in detail, this chapter will be very dry and we may as well start a book on CSS! You should find the following sections very interesting, as you will be seeing the changes of your modification in an instance.

As a background, CSS controls the structure and the look/appearance of your web pages. It separates the structure and design elements from the content of a web page. CSS is the design instructions that are linked to HTML/XHTML documents, which in the past were done...