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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

Installing a third party theme "element" to your site


As much as you enjoyed creating your own theme, the time and effort to work on spectacular graphics work and the need for detailing is burdensome to many of us.

An alternative to doing everything on your own is to use one of the free themes, which resembles your desired concept, and you can cut short a lot of time and effort. There are quite a number of PrestaShop v1.2.5 themes that you can get for free instead of the latest v1.3.1. Find the one closest to your layout requirements. There are a number of basic themes at www.prestastore.com, which you can download for free.

Now, let's choose a two column theme to work with. This was developed based on the v1.2.5 platform.

This is the preview picture of the element and how the main page will look when you complete the installation and deployment work.

Note

Although it can be used, there are some changes that have to be made to the theme files for PrestaShop v1.2.5 to ensure the correct functionalities...