Prasanna Shrestha

Well, Opencart is a lightweight, opensource and relatively fast e-commerce framework. We can easily setup our store with opencart. It's built with PHP and Mysql (for database). So, setting up theme for our store is an important part when creating a web store. The user interface and design plays a key role in any e-commerce store. In Opencart, we can integrate our custom theme too. For this, we need to create a basic html (mockup) of our custom design. 1. Then, install opencart if not installed. If already installed, go to catalog/view/theme folder. 2. There we can see the default theme of opencart. Copy the contents of that theme and create another theme for eg. catalog/view/theme/mytheme. "mytheme" is the new theme. 3. Paste the contents of the default theme on this newly created one. 4. Now, we need to modify the contents of the copied theme. 5. The folder structure of any theme is like as shown below: i. The "font" folder will have the extr