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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

Time for action—Inserting an image in the footer module


The original discussion on this can be found at http://www.PrestaShop.com/forums/viewthread/6023.

The footer module allows us to insert images into the footer block using the back office. The maximum size of the image allowed is 307.2 KB. Format wise, you can use common image formats such as jpg, png, and gif.

  1. Download the module file from the link at the given page.

  2. Save it on your computer.

  3. Upload it to your server (into your modules directory).

  4. Go to your Back Office | Modules | and scroll down to Block s

    Note

    For this exercise, I am using some free icons from http://www.beautifullife.info/web-design/best-free-professional-banners/

  5. Configure the module by clicking on >>Configure.

  6. Insert your links into the blank field or just leave it blank.

  7. Upload the Footer's logo or banner.

  8. By default, the image will appear aligned to the left of the footer block.

Blockfooterdata doesn't come with an external CSS file. You can insert the CSS code...