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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

Summary


In this chapter, we worked through the entire process of creating a new theme for your PrestaShop site. In fact, there are many more things you can do to make your site unique once you get the grasp of how things are done.

In summary, we have covered:

  • Some theory about PrestaShop architecture and philosophy

  • A practical step-by-step approach for making a new theme for a PrestaShop site

  • Ideas for creating the raw elements, modifying the relevant files, and enabling the required modules to combine into a new look for the site

  • Validation of your theme

  • Additional knowhow that will help you become an expert in theming.

You can apply this knowledge to other aspects of your PrestaShop theming. You can try to change some other elements that have not been covered, such as the icons or the buttons, by using the web developer tools to identify the elements and replace the elements with your own creations. You will also find that a number of third party modules can be useful to save you from doing a...