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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—Replacing the block header tabs and block background images


Our next task is to replace the background images of the modules block. Our theme uses the same sub-pages of the three column. Here we want to replace the background images to different colors to match our gift shop concept.

  1. Look in the img folders in your PrestaShop directory. The next screenshot shows the theme's img folder:

  2. Our next task is to change the following files:

    • block_header.gif

    • block_header_exclusive.gif

    • block_header_exclusivecart.gif

    • title_bg.gif

    For the images you want to replace, you can create images with the same format and name.

  3. Upload the images to your server to /themes/mythemes/img/ and overwrite the default images.

Have a go hero—Modifying the module blocks

You can enable all the modules you want to use. In this exercise, install the following module blocks:

  • Newsletter

  • Wish list

  • Specials

  • Cart

  • Top Seller

  • New Products

  • Viewed Products

Position the modules to the appropriate column. We covered positioning...