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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 jcarousel within the home page


You may want to move the jcarousel slideshow to the top position or to another position within the home page. The steps to do so are as follows:

  1. Go to Back Office | Modules | and click on the Positions tab. By default, once you have enabled the module, it is hooked at Homepage content. You should have this in your Homepage content hook as follows:

  2. The way to move it to the top is by clicking on the module near the arrow, and when you see a four headed arrow as the cursor, drag it to your desired position. There is no need to save this, as the position you moved to is what will appear on the front office.

  3. Once you have moved it to the correct position, preview it in your front office browser.

What just happened?

You learned how to install and enable the jcarousel in your home page. You also now know how to position it within the home page.

Have a go hero—Replacing images in the jcarousel

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