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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 – backing up your database


Log in to your PrestaShop control panel and read on.

  1. Hover over the Advanced Parameters tab and click on DB Backup.

  2. Read the disclaimer and click on I have read the disclaimer - Create a new Backup. Wow, that was quick! We are almost done.

  3. Now click on the link that says Download the Backup file, and save the file to your hard disk. If the files on your web host are destroyed, your PrestaShop database takes the backup; unless you have downloaded the backup, it is destroyed with them. Always download each backup file after creation.

  4. Click on Back to list and you will notice that PrestaShop keeps a nicely ordered list of the database backups you have made. Just be aware of the fact that PrestaShop doesn't keep a record of whether you have actually downloaded the backup file. So the previous step is really crucial.

What just happened?

You now have a backup of your PrestaShop database. It shouldn't have taken more than a minute. We will look at how to use...