Help me understand themes

[johnny_99]

Hi this may be a basic questions but Im lookign to understand themes better. Are these like joomla templates for example where you can switch between them without having to hack core files? Are the themes truly sepearated from the code as what I dont want to find is I use a theme and then later find out that the author of the themse got his tax calculations wrong for example or theyve introduced buggy code which affects the core build?

[Kaxis]

Well there is both, some use file hacks and other (usually the basic looking ones) will work kind of like Joomla. When a theme ask to change files not in modules ie products.tpl, keep track and a copy of the originals.

[johnny_99]

Thank you I guess Ill have to have a look at themes individually and see what they change. Is prestastore owned by prestashop (I only ask as Id be mor confident from buying from their sister site). Also without beign biased to any particular vendor has anyone bought any templates from a particluar compnay and they would reccommend them.

[scottyboy]

Buying anything from the prestastore is virtually risk free.

I have bought templates from http://www.uhupage.com/ as most of the other templates I found were pretty basic.
The UHU templates are really professional and I would highly recommend these if you want to give your store a fresh original look.