Chapter 6. Steps for Creating Themes

It is possible that you might come up with a wonderful looking theme without doing the underlying work, but it is useful to know more if you want to attempt more challenging themes.

Some of this information is discussed in different chapters in greater detail, for example, we have already discussed how to get images for your PrestaShop site. However, one can stick to the flow without diverting to the other chapters too much.

Now, let's get some understanding of the PrestaShop architecture, which will be useful in order for you to make changes on the files within the directories.

This chapter provides step-by-step instructions for how to create a theme. It is divided into sub-topics such as visualizing the theme and deciding the key features and functions, creating the folder for the new theme, and modifying the CSS files to suit your PrestaShop store's concept to achieve your theming goals.

We will also learn about the PrestaShop architecture, the philosophy...