99santi99 Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 (edited) Hi everyone i'm Michael I hope that this post is in the right location. Some background information - I was a bakery manager for a supermarket for several years, whilst on the side I used to sell a few things on eBay. anyway I have now quit my job due to me having 3 (aged 10, 7, and 4) kids and working 60-70hrs a week and every Saturday. Basically never seeing the kids and missing out on them growing up. I now have taken the drastic step to become self employed and try and set up a successful eCommerce store. my attempt so far is www.99santi99.com and I have to say it's poor. Just doesn't look professional. I could just buy a theme and change it to suit my needs but instead I want to learn how to do it myself not just how to create a theme but how to create modules as well. So my question is how do I lean to code for Prestashop? what I mean is what programs do I need to get ? how do I learn CSS and HTML ect ? Best books to get ? Online Guides ? What should I learn first ? Basic Tutorials ? I am of the belief that if you give a man a fish he will eat for a day (a theme) and if you teach a man how to fish (to create themes and modules) he will survive. Many thanks for your advice in advance Michael Edited August 10, 2014 by 99santi99 (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Patron Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 I think here is good place to start learning: (also welcome to the forum) http://doc.prestashop.com/display/PS16/Developer+Guide http://doc.prestashop.com/display/PS16/Themes+Preferences Make sure to create a test shop of ps installation or copy of your production shop that you can play with. Localhost makes good development platform. Having a good editor like dreamweaver 5 or similar makes a big difference. suerte(luck) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happylife Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 Hello and welcome You are going into a big adventure, but with motivation I am sure that you will succeed eventually. To better advice you, you will have to let us know your experience with coding. Do you know what is Object-oriented programming? What is your experience with PHP? or any other programming language(c#, Java, etc...) Good luck for your project Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
99santi99 Posted August 10, 2014 Author Share Posted August 10, 2014 I have no experience with programming, but I am committed to learning Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happylife Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 Then you should: 1. Learn html-css here is a good link to start : http://www.codecademy.com/en/tracks/htmlcss 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
99santi99 Posted August 13, 2014 Author Share Posted August 13, 2014 Fantastic help guys thank you so much 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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