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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

Using your copy


Using your backup is not too tricky, and because of the importance of the topic, we will go through it a step at a time.

Restoring the database

To do this, we will need to get a little bit more technical than when we took a backup of your database. We will need to use a database tool called PHPMyAdmin , provided by our web hosts .

Many web hosts provide access to databases hosted with them through PHPMyAdmin; in the unlikely event that your web host doesn't, contact technical support and ask them for the equivalent of this tool. It should then be fairly simple to interpret the instructions given in the next Time for action section.

As every web host is different, I will mention shortcuts and some potential problems (along with their solutions) that are web host-dependent. What is fairly sure is that at some point you will need access to a web-based program provided by your web hosts, like PHPMyAdmin. Hence, we will look at that first.