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Dear PrestaShop Forum Members,

I am in dire help.

By way of introduction, my name is Piyush - and I am the director of our family business selling electronic components in Singapore.

I went in with the dreams of launching our B2B e-commerce platform earlier this year. Upon hiring a vendor and developing our website, the website came out nothing like what we wanted. It's partly my fault for not understand how Prestashop's themes work. The vendor I hired keeps saying everything I need is out of scope. The very ugly and poorly designed website can be found at http://www.chipsgalaxy.com/beta. It's a disaster. 

So here I am, 10 months later and sitting twiddling my thumbs without a product and positive plan.

Before I ask my questions, I'd like to tell you more about the site:

• Site uses an API connected to a large stockist to extract about 100K SKUs (upon search).
• Site uses numerous Payment gateway systems.
• Site has I "think" a decent backend - but that's just what my current backend developer is telling.

I have a few questions and I really hope someone can help me:

1. If my "backend" API connectivity, search requirements, and other "backend" items are complete, can we just change the "theme" to improve the look and feel?

2. My current theme is the "panda" theme. Can we modify the entire theme to exactly my specifications with advanced CSS, filters, etc... or do I need to buy another theme? I have heard that this theme doesn't have the "add-ons" needed?

name: panda; display_name: Panda; version: 2.4.8; author: name: "St-themes Team", email: "[email protected]", url: http://panda2.sunnytoo.com/en/

3. I went on the freelancer.com website to look for front end guys to help, but a lot of these guys seem like they are all talk and keep saying "Yes" to everything. If I want to hire a general and advanced front-end and back-end devleloper who can handle the entire site, do I need a Prestashop developer per se? What job description do I need?

Your help is greatly appreciated!