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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

Page peel


One of the most interesting additions to your page theme would be a page peel.

The original discussion can be found in the PrestaShop forum and you can download the module at http://www.PrestaShop.com/forums/viewthread/28408.

Peel page is quite interesting as the image is, in a way, hiding or peeping at the user making them curious. When a user clicks to the corner, they will be directed to a page you want to highlight or any main promotion you have.

  1. After you have downloaded the file, upload the file to your modules directory (/prestashop/modules/) and unzip it.

  2. Go to the back office Modules tab (Back Office | Modules) and enable the installation.

  3. Once you have enabled this module, you can click on >>Configure. This will lead you to the next screen. Insert the destination URL and upload the new image file.

  4. Click on the Save button when you are done.

Limitations

You can only upload jpg files for this module. You will need two images. The large image must be 500x500, whereas...