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Designing Professional Websites with Odoo Website Builder

By : Sainu Nannat
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Designing Professional Websites with Odoo Website Builder

By: Sainu Nannat

Overview of this book

The Odoo website builder is an operational tool in the Odoo platform that allows you to design, develop, and manage a website. This book introduces and explains all the features of the Odoo website builder that will help you to be more productive while creating websites. The book starts with an overview of the Odoo website builder, its functionalities, and the tools it offers. Using descriptive illustrations and practical examples, you’ll gain detailed insights into the block operations of the Odoo website builder and learn how to work with structure blocks, features blocks, and dynamic content blocks. As you advance, you’ll discover how to use the HTML, CSS, or JS editor in Odoo website builder applications for customization. This Odoo book will take you through the different aspects of website building and show you how e-commerce websites can be designed and developed using website builder applications. You’ll build a website, manage it, and run a discussion forum in Odoo using the website builder, and apply your knowledge to add a live chat tool that can be incorporated into your website using the Odoo website builder. By the end of this book, you’ll have gained a solid understanding of the Odoo website builder and be able to leverage its features to develop your own website.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
1
Section 1: An Overview
4
Section 2: Website Builder in Depth
10
Section 3: Practical Tools

Structure blocks

With the introduction of the Odoo website builder tool onto the Odoo platform, developers understood the need for useful tools to design a website, just as they do in the normal way, using Odoo. However, website building without Odoo requires highly technical knowledge and an in-depth understanding of programming and coding. The Odoo platform found this unnecessary and had to provide a better solution for website building. Therefore, the Odoo platform introduced the blocks system, where you can simply drag and drop different operational blocks to design your website. In addition, these block tools are available for all the web pages on a website.

The Structure blocks available in the website builder of Odoo include a collection of basic tools that are necessary when website building. There are basic blocks of operations that can be dragged and dropped into the website to bring in a basic structure to the website and allow you to prepare your content accordingly...