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Magento 1.3 Sales Tactics Cookbook

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Magento 1.3 Sales Tactics Cookbook

Overview of this book

Magento is a feature-rich, professional open source e-commerce solution that offers users complete flexibility and control over the look, content, and functionality of their online store. Although Magento provides users with the power to create dynamic e-commerce sites, it can be challenging to get beyond the basics and create sites that are tailored to your unique business needs.This book gives you a hands-on experience on Magento, helping you increase your revenue by implementing proven sales tactics on your Magento site.This book contains techniques to help you with each stage of selling to your customers: attracting visitors, driving them to your product pages, making the sale, increasing sales, engaging your customers, and more. It contains a powerful mix of techniques for increasing sales in your online storefront. Over thirty of the techniques are short and stand alone. A few are designed to be used together, such as the seven techniques in the chapter on creating an international storefront. Some techniques make creative use of Magento’s standard features. A few techniques combine Magento with other tools, such as social networking sites. All the techniques are explained in clear, step-by-step directions, with many screenshots. The book uses an example site for each technique, so that you can see exactly how it will affect your storefront. You can jump into the book at any point, or, work through it from beginning to end.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Magento 1.3 Sales Tactics Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface

Translating CMS pages (Front page, About Us, Customer Service, and so on)


You probably want the front page of your international website to appear in your customers' native language. You will need to translate this page. You will also need to translate the About Us, Customer Service, and other static pages. In the following screenshot, you can see that we added a CMS front page for our Spanish store view:

The result is a front page that is unique to this international store view:

How to do it...

  1. 1. From the administrative interface, select CMS | Manage Pages.

  2. 2. Add a new static page. Use the procedure inCreate a basic landing page inChapter 3.

  3. 3. For the page's Store View, select your international storefront.

  4. 4. For the page's Identifier, leave it the same as the original store. For example, the front page of the website will be home for both the original and international store views:

  1. 5. Remember to Enable the page.

  2. 6. Save the CMS page.

  3. 7. Repeat this for each of the CMS pages that you need...