OpenCart 1.4 Template Design Cookbook

Tahsin Hasan

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Customize dynamic menus, logos, headers, footers, and every other section using tricks you won't find in the official documentation
A great mix of recipes for beginners, intermediate, and advanced OpenCart template designers
Develop and customize dynamic, powerful OpenCart templates to make your website stand out from the crowd
Fully customizable administration theme for OpenCart

Book Details

Language : English
Paperback : 328 pages [ 235mm x 191mm ]
Release Date : March 2011
ISBN : 1849514305
ISBN 13 : 978-1-84951-430-9
Author(s) : Tahsin Hasan
Topics and Technologies : All Books, Cookbooks, Open Source

Preface
Chapter 1: Getting Started
Chapter 2: Store Decoration
Chapter 3: Layout Structure
Chapter 4: Module Adjustment
Chapter 5: Header Structure
Chapter 6: Dynamic Content
Chapter 7: Customizing Menus
Chapter 8: Footer Layout
Chapter 9: Modifying the Administration Panel Theme
Chapter 10: Miscellaneous
Index

Preface

Chapter 1: Getting Started

Introduction
Why do we need to customize our theme?
Setting up our environment
Installing OpenCart
Downloading and installing GIMP
Creating logos in OpenCart
Inspecting elements using Firebug
Installing Web Developer
Installing Colorzilla

Chapter 2: Store Decoration

Introduction
Changing your shop's general settings
Modifying the settings of your store
Basic localization settings
Setting image properties
Changing administrator favorites icon
Setting up SMTP mail server
Modifying server options
Creating categories
Adding products to a category

Chapter 3: Layout Structure

Introduction
Creating a new theme
Resetting layout styles
Setting basic style properties
Creating a promotional banner
Placing a banner on your site

Chapter 4: Module Adjustment

Introduction
Changing header of module
Adjusting layout
Placing featured block at middle
Styling centre featured block
Applying styles to categories

Chapter 5: Header Structure

Introduction
Default header structure
Altering the logo
Styling top navigation
Placing menus
Styling the search bar
Styling the language bar
Controlling search style
Styling language and payment units
Creating the header banner

Chapter 6: Dynamic Content

Introduction
Installing jQuery and jCarousel
Displaying products using jCarousel
Displaying products vertically
Customizing the cycle plugin
Modifying the side column with the cycle plugin
Different effects with the cycle plugin

Chapter 7: Customizing Menus

Introduction
Displaying horizontal sliding menus
Adding a fisheye menu
Giving a background color to the menu
Integrating the social networking menu

Chapter 8: Footer Layout

Introduction
Creating a wide footer for our store
Footer with a gradient image
Creating a three column footer

Chapter 9: Modifying the Administration Panel Theme

Introduction
Modifying headers
Menu creation
Footer adjustment
Styling dashboard

Chapter 10: Miscellaneous

Introduction
Broken glass 404 error page
Sitemap creation

Index

Tahsin Hasan

Tahsin Hasan is a software engineer from Bangladesh. He passed the Zend Certification Examination on 09 August, 2009 and has become the seventeenth Zend Certified Engineer (ZCE) from Bangladesh. This is the top-most certification on PHP from Zend, the developer of this outstanding scripting language. He is a tech enthusiastic and always keeps himself well-equipped with latest technologies. He has written another book, Opencart 1.4 Template Design Cookbook, with Packt. Tahsin Hasan has profound knowledge of LAMP environment. His advanced understanding of database environments and Apache web server is an asset. He has proficiency in scalability and optimizing server performance. He has worked with Symfony, CakePHP, Codeigniter and Zend Framework. Tahsin Hasan shares his ideas and knowledge on tahSin’s gaRage; the address is http://newdailyblog.blogspot.com. He welcomes everyone on his blog to discuss latest web technologies. You can get him at tahsin352@gmail.com.

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What you will learn from this book

Displaying products in different sections with simple and effective recipes
Creating modern headers with advanced layout
Adorning the admin panel with our own style using CSS
Various recipes to create our own footer layout
Displaying the navigational menu in customizable ways
Adding dynamic contents to our store
Using GIMP to create images
Debugging our store for enhancement
Customizing error page and sitemaps

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In Detail

Templates in OpenCart provide a powerful way to make your site look exactly the way you want either using a single template for the entire site or a separate template for each site section. Although it sounds like an easy task to build and maintain templates, it can be challenging to get beyond the basics and customize templates to meet your needs perfectly.

Get to grips with the basics of template design for OpenCart such as changing the logo and altering color schemes for your templates. Understand OpenCart concepts such as module chrome and template positions. Create custom error templates for your website. Style OpenCart's search results and customize OpenCart's breadcrumb trail. Customize the look and feel of your OpenCart website's administration panel to match either your business or client identity. Use the jQuery JavaScript library to enhance your OpenCart template. Make use of a wide range of miscellaneous tips, tricks, and tasks to help get your OpenCart website one step closer to perfection. Create custom menus using multiple approaches and techniques.

First we will install OpenCart. Then we will get familiar with the ways to modify the store configuration. After that we will start styling our OpenCart store by resetting all the browser settings. We will create a banner image step by step. We will control the positioning of our OpenCart modules. We will see how we can use different jQuery plugins to display our products effectively. We will also cover several modern footer creation recipes in this book. Towards the end of the book we will use different eye-catching menus for our store so it really starts to take shape. Finally we will learn how to create an error page and a sitemap page for our store. Once our journey through the book is complete we will have created a modern store with OpenCart and have full control over our store template.

Approach

This hands-on guide cuts short the preamble and gets straight to the point with practical recipes instead of just theoretical learning. Each recipe is specifically tailored to fulfill your appetite for creating professional visually stunning templates and themes for your OpenCart store.

Who this book is for

You may be the owner of an OpenCart web store or a designer working with OpenCart. If you want to customize OpenCart to unleash its enormous potential and elevate your store to the next level, this book is for you. You must have some experience with OpenCart and understand its basic features. You also need to know HTML and should be comfortable taking up some challenges in PHP and JavaScript programming.