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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

Before we continue


It is not important to know where everything is and how it works at this stage. As I mentioned before, we will approach each topic in the likely order of setting up a new business and not in a left-to-right manner. I just thought it might be nice to have a look under the hood before we get stuck in! This will hopefully help you to master PrestaShop more logically and to achieve my 7-day challenge.

Pop quiz – a few questions about Chapter 1

Q1. Many web hosts charge per database or have a limit before forcing you to upgrade your package. How would you create almost unlimited PrestaShop installations on the same domain name and same database without overwriting the original?

  1. Upgrading your web host package

  2. Enable multistore

  3. Contract different web hosts

  4. Contract different web hosts and domains

Q2. Once configured, which tab would you most likely use to know how many visitors have visited your website?

  1. Module

  2. Customers

  3. Stats

  4. Shipping

Q3. What do you think would be the fastest way (least clicks) to begin the process of creating a new product?

  1. Click on Catalog and then click on Product

  2. Click on Catalog and then click on Categories

  3. Click on Administration and then click on Menu, then add Product to the menu

  4. Click on Preferences and click on Product