Help Needed: Adapting my prestashop to a specific product

[zohdi_rizvi]

Dear Prestashop Team and Developers

 

I have been reading a lot about Prestashop and it's uniqueness. Trust me, I really count Prestashop as one among the leading Open Source Ecommerce Script available online.

 

I have just thought of an idea that would be based on e-commerce functionality and have downloaded latest prestashop. But there's a small problem that I want to specifically tailor my website for the specific niche. Suppose if I want to sell hand-made handcrafts and would like to customize the script accordingly, then how can I customize the script display functionality such as:

 

On a homepage, the name of a commodity is given a generic name "Product" however I want to change it to Handicrafts. Additionally if a script display top selling product, I want to rename it to "Top Handiscrafts Sold" or "Recently sold Handicrafts"

 

Similarly I want to customize the email communication with the user and script, as well as registration or signup process, to match my market requirements.

 

In short I want my script to be customized specifically for my niche.

 

Can anyone please suggest me how to accomplish it or refer me a previously discussed discussion on the same topic?

 

Awaiting the response of whole community as I have committed to launch the portal within less than 1 month.

 

Please help and guide.

 

Thank you very much for the help extended.

--

Zohdi

[Snade]

To change the generic names you need to edit the tpl files.

 

in order to get accurate help faster, I suggest you to post your site(link) with specific questions. Also try to stick to 1-2 questions per topic.

[Dave L]

prestashop comes complete with a comprehensive Translations feature were you can change all of these things.

 

If you have prestashop installed have a look at

 

Tools>Translations>Front Office Translations

Tools>Translations>Back Office translations

Tools>Translations>Field name translations

Tools>Translations>Module translations

Tools>Translations>PDF Translations

Tools>Translations>Email Template translations

 

These are available with each installed language.

 

In the /mails folder there are all the .html and .txt files which you can easily edit.

 

Very few things need to be reworded in .tpl files, however the option still exists.