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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—Positioning the YouTube module


By default, when you installed and enabled the module, the home YouTube video will be displayed at the bottom of the center column of your front page.

So you will need to move it up to the top of the center column to make it appear in the home page logo position. Now, let's position it accordingly by executing the following steps:

  1. Click on the Position button within your administration's Module tab (Go to Back Office | Modules | and click on Positions).

  2. Scroll and find the Homepage content.

  3. Click on the Home You Tube module, and drag it to the position you want to move it to, for example, to the top, as shown in the following screenshot:

  4. After doing this, you may want to delete the Home text editor module by removing it from the hook, if you prefer. This will be displayed only on the FEATURED PRODUCTS block and the Home You Tube in the center column.

  5. Now, let's preview it to see how it looks on your front office:

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