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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—Using the jQuery carousel


The jQuery carousel will loop infinitely over the items when the next or the previous button is clicked. Generally, this module can be created on your own.

However, there are some readymade jcarousel modules that you may download from the various PrestaShop sites.

  1. Download jcarousel.zip, and save it on your hard disk. You may download it from http://www.PrestaShop.com/forums/viewthread/19951.

    Note

    If this link is unavailable, you can get it from the appended code bundle.

  2. Upload the zip file to your server or if you are using a development site, place it in the correct folder on your localhost. Make sure you locate it to the modules directory. (/modules/)

  3. Then, extract jcarousel.zip and copy the jcarousel folder to your shop's modules directory. You can find slides and assets folders inside the jcarousel folder, as shown in the following screenshot:

  4. Go to the Back Office | Modules tab. Here you can find jcarousel module inside the Home section.

  5. Click on...