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PrestaShop 1.5 Beginner's Guide

Build your own attractive online store with this fast and flexible e-commerce solution

Publisher:Packt Publishing Limited
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|May 2013
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Build your own attractive online store with this fast and flexible e-commerce solution

Key Features

  • Build a fully featured, attractive online shop with PrestaShop
  • Add and customize your shop's products
  • Make more money by offering shipping and payment options to your site

Book Description

PrestaShop is an open source, e-commerce solution which allows you to build a highly functional, flexible, and attractive online store.In"PrestaShop 1.5 Beginner's Guide" you will learn how to set up, extend, and personalize your own online shop. Newly updated to focus on PrestaShop 1.5, this book features descriptive and practical tutorials on everything you need to make a splash in the world of e-commerce.If you want to start selling your products online but are a bit daunted about shipping, tax, and designing your online presence, then this is the book for you.This practical book starts by showing you how to download, install, and configure your own shop. Using a step-by-step approach, this book takes you through the processes required to create a fully functioning online shop with the potential to make you serious money.With distinct chapters on the methods required to make your products stand out to your customers better, this title will enable you to create and customize a vivid, online presence to get people visiting your store and buying your goods.Targeting further sales, this book then shows you how to develop a targeted search engine optimization campaign to get new customers and keep existing customers returning. From here you will learn how to tackle complicated tax rates and shipping costs efficiently and with less hassle to ensure your customers are satisfied with your service.If you want to start your own e-commerce business using PrestaShop, then this book will show you how.

What you will learn

  • Build an online shop with PrestaShop
  • Quickly configure and install PrestaShop
  • Use PrestaShop catalog features to present your products in an enticing and professional manner
  • Customize and configure the look and feel of your PrestaShop to make it unique and professional
  • Connect PrestaShop to a choice of payment handlers to take online payments
  • Secure PrestaShop using a wide range of built-in features and other tactics
  • Master the ins and outs of handling shipping, taxes, and currencies in PrestaShop
  • Market your new business using e-mail, social media, SEO, articles, blogs, forums, and more

Who this book is for

This book is for people who are interested in creating an online shop. Basic HTML and CSS skills would be beneficial but are not required as we will provide you with all the code and know-how you need.

Table of Contents

    PDF ISBN: 978-1-78216-107-3
    Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
    Copyright owner: © 2013 Packt Publishing Limited
    Publication date: 2013
    Language: English
    Pages: 260
    Related subjects:
    Computer sciences,
    Computer sciences, other

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