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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 – how to add your content to your home page


PrestaShop has a really easy-to-use CMS. CMS is an acronym for Content Management System. It will allow you to create and label content and then enable links to it. We will see more of this when we create your “must have” pages, in a minute, and when we look at the CMS in more depth in Chapter 4, Getting More Customers. PrestaShop deals with home page content in a slightly different way. It uses another module called the Home text editor. Here goes:

  1. Click on the Modules tab and scroll down, find the Image slider for your homepage module, and click on Install (by default, it is installed).

  2. Now come back to it again and click on Configure. I have divided the page that you will see into two screenshots, one for the back office and the other for the home page.

    The following is a screenshot of your home page with a new slider:

  3. Now visit your store’s home page. This will show you what the default content in the Image slider for your homepage...