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PrestaShop 1.3 Theming - Beginner's Guide

By : Hayati Hashim
Book Image

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—Modifying lines in the center column


  1. Open Firebug, and go to the element that you would like to edit.

  2. The text in the preceding screenshot is the text you want to edit in terms of its margin, and padding. You will need to go to global.css and edit the text sixe, padding and bottom margin.

    .editorial_block h2 {
    	background: none;
    	padding: 0;
    	margin-bottom: 1em
    }

    Tip

    If it isn't stated whether it is the bottom or top margin, the margin values are shown according to top right bottom left.

  3. You can test how you want to change the margin and padding by increasing the value, by lowering the distance from top, and so on.

Try it, and if the outcome is suitable, you can save the changes and copy the new margin and padding value to your CSS file.

This is pretty simple!