Question about creating own themes on Prestashop

[LF11]

Hi all,

I have some specific questions regarding designing my own PS themes. Hopefully you can help me with the below....Thanks!

How would I go about designing a theme for PS?

I mean, I can think of a million additions and buttons I could create to use in my shop, but would it all be implementable or would I really need to adhere to the structure as set up "out of the box" in Prestashop?

So is it a question of modifying existing modules/ buttons etc. or can I also implement some completely new design elements that I made myself?

I'm not sure how these systems are designed and to what extend they allow flexibility on the side of the designer?

Would not want to create a cool design to find out later that it is impossible to implement in PS.

Thanks again, really appreciated!

[shoulders]

i am a bit of a noobie myself.

- i would start by copying the default prestashop theme and messing with that. Use xampp on a local PC, get notepad++ and have a look at the code

- the files in the default template are all required and are how they should be. hte design of them can be altered though

- i would see what other people have done with there templates

- the templates are basically php based that create a html output so you can do pretty much what you want if you know php

- check out the smarty template engines homepages and see how that works, basically this is the code/framework that outputs the actual data in to the output ie tax amount, item price etc...