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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

Time for action – installing the shopping cart module


We are now going to create a shopping cart module:

  1. Log in to your PrestaShop control panel and click on the Modules tab. You should see the same window that you saw in the previous screenshot.

  2. When you scroll down the list of modules, you will see the Cart block module. Just to the right of the description, click on the Install button (it is installed by default).

  3. Now scroll back to the Cart block module. Notice the word in green. Click on Configure.

  4. Here you have the option to select an Ajax cart. AJAX is a suite of technologies that enables some really cool and smooth web effects. Sounds like a good idea? Thought so. The reason you have the option to switch AJAX off is that some older templates that we will look at later in this chapter do not get along with AJAX, so you will need to switch it off. For now at least, I suggest leaving it on. Click on Save when you’re ready.

  5. Go and have a look at your shop front. You should see a page similar...