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OpenCart 1.4: Beginner's Guide

By : Murat Yilmaz
Book Image

OpenCart 1.4: Beginner's Guide

By: Murat Yilmaz

Overview of this book

<p>OpenCart is a popular open source shopping cart solution and provides elegantly written tools to establish a fully functional online store from scratch in a very short time with intuitive screens. It can be a difficult task for beginners to go beyond the basics and apply all the features, which they will require for their businesses.</p> <p>This practical book gives you hands-on experience on using and managing OpenCart, helping you start feature-rich, professional online stores easily. It also teaches you how to organize your online store effectively in terms of products, payments, shipping, orders, and customer relations.</p> <p>OpenCart 1.4 Beginner's Guide will teach you how to build a store that can take control of all the online shopping needs. You will be able to run multiple shops in a single installation. You will learn how to set up products and correctly organize in categories. You will correctly integrate a payment gateway and shipping method after reading the comparisons and applying the examples. You will learn how to define taxes and apply them according to the geolocation of a customer. This book also teaches you how to manage orders and customers. You can impress your customers and increase the availability of the website to more people with the help of this practical guide. Additionally, the book also teaches you how to use design templates and apply SEO (search engine optimization) to make the store more visible for search engine queries.</p>
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
OpenCart 1.4 Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the author
About the reviewers
Preface
Index

Time for action – installing an OpenCart template


In this section, we will learn how to upload an OpenCart template and activate it.

Note

Note that it shows the very basic template installation. Some complicated templates need to make changes on main store codes as well. These changes are generally explained step by step in a readme file in the template package.

  1. The following screenshot shows that we have uploaded a template zip file to the catalog/view/theme folder in our store. We should Extract it to this folder.

  2. Let's just click on the Extract File(s) button.

  3. When we open Store Manager settings, we will now see that a new Template is listed. Let's choose it and Save the setting.

  4. The following screenshot shows the main page after a new template was applied. Notice that there are only a few cosmetic changes to the design of the store.

What just happened?

We have just finished uploading and activating a basic template.

Tip

We should not forget to backup our files beforehand if any code changes...