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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—Changing the navigation by using third party modules


There are many ways to create a top horizontal bar, which can be linked to various pages in your PrestaShop store. It is much easier to use a third party module, as you can see in the following example:

  1. Let's pick one of the top horizontal bars that we can get from the net for free.

  2. We shall use one from julienbreux, which can be downloaded for free at http://www.julien-breux.com/2009/08/25/menu-horizontal-v-1-0/comment-page-3/#comment-3956.

  3. Save this .tar file to your computer.

  4. Then, upload it to your server through your cPanel or FTP. You should upload it to /prestashop/modules/, which is the modules directory.

  5. Go to your back office and click on the Modules tab. You will see the following module:

  6. Enable it by clicking on the Install button.

  7. You will have to configure it. Click on the >>Configure button, and you will be directed to another page.

  8. On the left column, you will see, by default, a number of items that are already...