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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 a PrestaShop theme


Here’s how to do it:

  1. Download the template to your PC.

  2. Hold down the Windows key and tap the E key twice. In one window, browse to your downloaded theme. In the other window, log in to your website via FTP.

  3. On your website, browse to the themes folder.

  4. Drag the new themes folder onto your website.

  5. Now log in to your PrestaShop admin panel.

  6. Click on the Preferences tab, and then on Appearance. Scroll to the bottom of the page, select your new template, and click on Save. How quick was that?

What just happened?

You can now switch themes at will. After this quick pop quiz, we will look at making your theme completely unique.

Pop quiz – themes and things

So how do you customize the theme? Maybe you like the general layout but want to change some elements?

Q1. How do you think you can change the elements of the actual template itself? (Here’s a clue: it’s not in your control panel.)

  1. By going to the Modules section and then clicking on Featured Products on...