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PrestaShop 1.5 Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

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PrestaShop 1.5 Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

Overview of this book

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.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
PrestaShop 1.5 Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Pop Quiz Answers
Index

Your shop front explained


Now, at last, it is time to see your shop! Visit www.yourdomain.com. It should look like the following screenshot:

If you haven’t already done this, then go and have a look at a PrestaShop that has some content. This will help you visualize approximately how your own store will take shape. You can do this at http://demo-store.prestashop.com/en/.

Now you can see the logo of your shop, a search bar, useful links such as contact, sitemap, or bookmark, select the Currency option, a Log in link, and the main menu in the top area of a website.

The following screenshot is the header. The header is the top area in a website:

On both sides of the web we have columns. On the left side, we have the main navigation.

On the right column, we have specials offers, latest products, and some information about your store.

In the middle of the website, we have the products. On the homepage there are featured products and one carousel, but when we surf along the categories, we see a list of products that belong to that category. When we click on a product, we have all the information about that product in this area.

The latest part of this area is called the footer. We have useful links and contact details in this area, as shown in the following screenshot: