What this book covers

Chapter 1, Customizing PrestaShop gives a brief introduction to PrestaShop; it will explain the relationship between the PrestaShop front page look and its back office administration, and it will brief you on the basic structure diagram of a PrestaShop theme. It will then give an overview of the back office tabs for modifying the PrestaShop's theme.

Chapter 2, Customizing PrestaShop Theme Part I covers the ways to modify the general layout of the PrestaShop's theme. Here, you will be guided on editing the theme and playing around with the modules. You will get to know terms such as hooks, transplanting, and positioning.

Chapter 3, Customizing PrestaShop Theme Part 2 helps you in setting up your key elements such as the title, header, footer, logos and so on, which complete the look of the store you are designing.

Chapter 4, Adjusting Style Sheets helps you understand and review your themes CSS files—modifying the elements of your PrestaShop web pages in terms of the colors, fonts, and layout by making simple changes to the relevant code.

Chapter 5, Applying Images elaborates about getting and using images to complete the look of the theme for the online store.

Chapter 6, Steps for Creating Themes covers the process of creating a theme step-by-step. It is divided into sub-topics, which are visualizing your theme, color scheming, developing raw materials, getting the layout you want, deciding on what modules you want to use, positioning the modules, customizing categories, adjusting the style sheets, and packaging the theme.

Chapter 7, Tips and Tricks to Make PrestaShop Theming Easier explores tips and tricks on how to make it easier to develop themes. It also explains ways to use third party modules for PrestaShop theming.

Chapter 8, Deploying Your New Themes explains how to deploy the themes on a production site and how to validate the code and test it on various browsers.