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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

Writing and displaying articles


Articles are what you give to people as an incentive to visit your website, especially when they are not considering a purchase. By creating high quality, useful articles, you can attract visitors through search engines, create loyalty, and subtly promote products.

Good ideas when writing articles

Most of your visitors are probably not planning on reading all of your articles or even a single page. They are most likely looking for a fact, figure, or piece of information.

The goal is to make it very easy for them to find and even more compelling to continue reading.

Make your articles easy to read

Reading from a screen is more difficult than reading from a book. That is why you need to consider making readability as high as possible when writing your articles. If you have a subject people are interested in (which you will find out when they visit repeatedly) and you focus your efforts in making your pages easy to get information from, then people will like your...