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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 8. Deploying Your New Themes

You have seen that creating themes in PrestaShop is much easier than most other e-commerce shopping cart sites. This is largely due to the use of the Smarty template system, which allows theme modification without requiring modification of any of the PHP files.

You are only required to modify the relevant tpl files and most of the time deal with the global.css of the theme to edit the CSS.

In this final chapter, we will go through the process of using the theme you have created and deploy it on another site. This is similar to the situation where you work within a development site and need to move or copy the theme that you have made to another site, normally a production site.

You will also go through the process of validating your themes. Although we covered this in one of the previous chapters, we will elaborate further on this aspect and underscore the importance on the web accessibility.

In order to use the new theme in another site, you will need...