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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

Pop Quiz Answers

Chapter 1, Getting Started

Pop quiz – starting your e-commerce

Q1

2. Enable multistore

Q2

3. Stats

Q3

1. Click on Catalog and then click on Product

Chapter 2, Back Office

Pop quiz – themes and things

Q1

1. Editing the HTML template with CSS and JavaScript

Q2

2. Editing the CSS file of the theme

Q3

1. Click on the Themes sub-tab under Preferences and once there, I select my logo

Chapter 3, Merchandising for Success

Pop quiz – a few product marketing questions

Q1

1. Creating a special offer

Q2

2. The new body toner uses the latest fitness technology

Chapter 4, Getting More Customers

Pop quiz – PrestaShop search

Q1

2. Setting weight in the section Search under the Preferences tabs

Q2

1. Adding to the file the following line, Disallow: [Path]

Chapter 5, Tools, Newsletters, Extra Income, and Statistics

Pop quiz – tools and preferences challenge

Q1

1. By selecting Use PHP mail() function. Recommended; works in most cases

Q2

2. By clicking on Menus under the Administration tab

Q3

1. Yes, PrestaShop does everything for us

Chapter 6, Security and Disaster Recovery

Pop quiz – security

Q1

1. To be consistent with every profile

Q2

3. Change the design of our store, add or delete an other employee, modify the orders, among others

Q3

1. Using SSL

Chapter 7, Checkouts and Shipping

Pop quiz – a refresher

Q1

3. Because it is a protocol for encrypting information over the Internet

Q2

1. Because, when the customers use the PayPal payment gateway, they automatically jump to the PayPal servers

Chapter 8, Ready to Sell

Pop quiz – sell your products

Q1

1. Forum, specialized webs, search engine registration and AdWords

Q2

2. Products that the customer often buys

Q3

1. Having a good SEO, writing good posts and giving a good customer services

Chapter 9, Go… to the Future

Pop quiz – become an e-commerce expert

Q1

1. It is more important to have a very good product line and customer services

Q2

1. Magento, PrestaShop, and osCommerce

Q3

2. Audience