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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

Chapter 6. Steps for Creating Themes

It is possible that you might come up with a wonderful looking theme without doing the underlying work, but it is useful to know more if you want to attempt more challenging themes.

Some of this information is discussed in different chapters in greater detail, for example, we have already discussed how to get images for your PrestaShop site. However, one can stick to the flow without diverting to the other chapters too much.

Now, let's get some understanding of the PrestaShop architecture, which will be useful in order for you to make changes on the files within the directories.

This chapter provides step-by-step instructions for how to create a theme. It is divided into sub-topics such as visualizing the theme and deciding the key features and functions, creating the folder for the new theme, and modifying the CSS files to suit your PrestaShop store's concept to achieve your theming goals.

We will also learn about the PrestaShop architecture, the philosophy...