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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

Summary


We learned a lot in this chapter about PrestaShop.

Specifically, we covered the following:

  • Obtaining PrestaShop: Where to download it from and how to prepare the files, including how to transfer them via FTP to your website.

  • MySQL databases: How PrestaShop uses the database, how to create a MySQL database, and how the different terms are used to refer to the database location.

  • PrestaShop installer: How to complete each step of the installer and filling out the slightly trickier pages like the database configuration page, and how to get around an intermittent bug in the installer.

  • The shop front: How to refer to different parts of the shop front.

  • The shop back: A brief look at where the different functions and tasks can be performed.

We’re now ready to fit your shop with a visually pleasing, unique, and sales-efficient design. This is the topic of the next chapter. So let’s get stuck in!