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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

Visualizing what you want to achieve


You will need to visualize your end result. Let's start with the aim to create a theme with one column on the main page.

First, how would you get ideas for theming for PrestaShop? Get a blank piece of paper and scribble to make it easier for you to work on your mission. If you need some ideas, search for some nice websites and get the idea on paper.

Start with http://www.prestashop.com. There is a live showcase of PrestaShop stores that were built by the other users all over the world (we talked about this in the first chapter).

There are some other websites you can search from where you can get ideas. Here are a couple of them:

Once you get some idea of what you want, you can scribble it on paper to figure out the elements you may want to include and so on.

For this exercise, we will have a large home page logo image as a center image. We will have all the modules we chose as a top menu link...