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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 achieved quite a lot in this chapter. Specifically, we covered:

  • Setting up the key PrestaShop modules: With a few clicks, we can add or remove some very significant features to or from our store.

  • Creating content for our home page: The home page is vital and should be updated frequently. It is controlled by a module.

  • Creating our “must have” pages: PrestaShop has an easy-to-use Content Management System (CMS). This makes the creation and management of unique pages really fast and easy. There’s more on the CMS in Chapter 4, Getting More Customers.

  • Switching themes: It is not difficult to use a ready-made theme to customize our PrestaShop store.

  • Learning how to make basic but significant customizations to our chosen theme.

Now that you have got a shop with essential pages, features, and content, it is time to give our customers some products to buy. That is the subject of the next chapter.