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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 – translating product descriptions


  1. Log in to your PrestaShop back office.

  2. Hover over the Catalog tab and find the first product that you would like to translate. Click on the Edit icon and then click on the flag next to the Title box. Notice that since we've added a new language, you have an extra option to change the language.

  3. Now we need to redo all the description and title fields in our new language. Let's go over and use Google Translate to help us. Visit http://translate.google.com/.

  4. Select your "from" and "to" languages in the drop-down box, and copy and paste, individually, the descriptions and titles you want translated. Click on Translate, and copy and paste the translations back into their respective fields on the PrestaShop product page. A quick tip: as already mentioned, this is far from perfect. Consider shortening and simplifying the product descriptions. Click on Save when you're done.

  5. Go and look at your shop front, change the setting to your new language, and...