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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 – creating the article


Let's use the CMS to create your first article on PrestaShop.

  1. Hover over the Preferences tab and then click on CMS.

  2. Click on the first green button, Add new, in CMS Categories . This is how we will create a new CMS Category.

  3. Fill in all the required fields.

  4. You now know exactly what to do with the three "meta" options.

  5. Friendly URLs are cool. I suggest you enter the title of your article in this field, with a dash between each word. So Why teddies are so fluffy would be entered as why-teddies-are-so-fluffy. Just leave out the speech marks and use lower case for all the characters.

  6. Select the Parent CMS Category.

  7. Click on Save. Now you have a new CMS category.

  8. Now click on the Add new button next to Pages in this category.

  9. Fill all the required fields.

  10. Don't forget to select the Displayed option, otherwise your new article will not be readable.

  11. When the article is ready, click on Save.

  12. Repeat these steps as many times as you want to write new articles.

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