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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

Adding more interactivity to your PrestaShop site


A static looking site can be quite boring, especially if you are running a website trying to sell stuff online. It is much more difficult to create a buzz when compared to the brick-and-mortar shop, where visitors see other users browsing the shop and buying in a busy store with loud punchy music; which can increase their adrenalin and encourage them to to buy more.

How can an online store be made more interactive and dynamic, so that it gets more conversion from visitors to purchasers?

Adding the right interactivity can add visual interest and attract users. There are a number of ways that you can add to your new site to make it visually pleasing and suit the theme you are creating.

Now look at the following section (where the home page logo is displayed by default) and consider what you want to replace it with.

We could choose to add some video perhaps or a slideshow of some top products or just a flash swf file.

How do we do that now?