To change the look of your Prestashop store, you need nothing more than good HTML and CSS skills. However, if your serious about having the control to change more than just the style and default effects you’ll also need to get to grips with JQuery (JavaScript Library) and Smarty (PHP Templating language).

It’s at this point you might start to panic and say to yourself “But I am a designer, not a programmer”. Fear not, getting to grips with JQuery and Smarty, really is a lot easier than you think. And if you really don’t want to do any more than styling the look and feel of your store, you can of course work almost entirely with your themes CSS file. I will show you how.

During the designers guide I am going to make the assumption that you already have good XHTML and CSS skills. If you do not have these skills you might struggle to follow everything and should first learn how to build web pages to a reasonable level before following this guide.