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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

Making a copy of your store


We have taken a number of steps to protect your PrestaShop store, but what if it all goes wrong anyway? It is still possible, although much less likely, that your site will get hacked. It is also possible that we might accidentally spoil our own PrestaShop store. If you promise not to tell anyone else, I will give you an example of a self-inflicted disaster I had.

While working on this chapter, I was playing with the Permissions features. I deleted a few tabs and then with a single inadvertent click, I deleted the Employees tab! The permissions page went blank and there was no way to restore all the tabs that I had deleted. I can't put in print what I said when I realized my mistake.

But I had a copy and the page was up and running again in 10 minutes.

A lesson to be taken from this incident is to create a new profile and user for you. Call it Junior admin, and then if you do something dumb like I did, you can log in as the administrator and make it right.

So our...