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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—Adding an item on the top menu bar


To add more items on the top menu bar:

  1. You will have to do it using the CMS link, which is through our Back Office | Tools | CMS; we had covered this in depth in the earlier chapter.

  2. Click on +Add new and enter the information for the required field.

  3. Once completed, click on the Save button.

  4. Then we can move on to the top menu bar again. Remove the items "iPod" from the left column and add "Contact Us" from the right column to the left.

  5. You can also add a new menu top link through the Add Menu Top Link feature at the bottom part. Enter the information

    The new label will then be listed at the bottom List Menu Top Link, which you can remove later if you want. If it is retained, it will be in the top-right column and ready to be used on the top menu bar as soon as you added it into the left column. Let's move on with this example.

  6. To put the product on the top menu bar, you will have to edit the Catalog page. As an example, you go to Back Office...