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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—Deploying from another computer


If you have been working on your localhost or an alternative server, you will need to upload these theme files to your new host. There aren't many differences in copying from within the same host.

  1. Go to your server's file administration (or cPanel).

  2. zip your theme directories from your localhost installation (or another host), for example, compress /yourshop1/themes/theme1 into a file called theme1.zip, which contains the theme files for theme1.

  3. Upload the compressed archive to your server at /yourshop2/themes/.

  4. Extract the zip file, and you should have a new theme installed. You should see the /yourshop2/themes/theme1/ folder in this directory.

  5. zip your modules directory in your localhost and upload this entire directory to /themes/ theme1/modules/ or create a new module directory within the theme1 folder. Extract it so you will have the /themes/modules directory.

  6. The rest of the steps would be the same as the previous one.

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