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Building E-commerce Sites with Drupal Commerce Cookbook

By : Richard Carter
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Building E-commerce Sites with Drupal Commerce Cookbook

By: Richard Carter

Overview of this book

<p>Get to grips with Drupal Commerce, the new ecommerce framework based on the Drupal CMS , one of the most popular and powerful open source content management systems available.<br /><br />"Building E-commerce Sites with Drupal Commerce Cookbook" takes you through the installation, configuration, and customisation of your Drupal Commerce store. With clear, practical recipes with plenty of screenshots and tips this book will help you build attractive and profitable eCommerce sites.<br /><br />This book starts by showing you how to install and configure your Drupal Commerce store. Once your shop is up and running, you’ll then learn how to customise and optimise it to make it stand out and display your products better.<br /><br />Going further into customisation, you will learn to add custom product types before creating a stylish new Drupal theme for your store. Packed with tips, this book will also help guide you through common problems, as well as optimising and managing your store on a day to day basis.<br /><br />"Building E-commerce Sites with Drupal Commerce Cookbook" will guide you through everything you need to know to get your online store up and running and selling your products, with easy step-by-step guides and screenshots to help walk you through everything.</p>
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Building E-commerce Sites with Drupal Commerce Cookbook
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Changing your store's logo file


One of the most visual elements of your store is your logo, and it can help make a great impression on your customers.

This recipe will show you how to change your Drupal Commerce store's logo.

Getting started

Log in to your Drupal Commerce control panel, and navigate to Appearance, and then to the Settings tab at the top right-hand corner of the screen:

How to do it...

Now that you've found this screen, you can begin to change your Drupal Commerce store's logo:

  1. Ensure you are under the Global settings tab; you will be presented with options. Under the Toggle display options block, ensure that the Logo checkbox is selected:

  2. Next, scroll down towards the Logo image settings block and uncheck the Use the default logo checkbox to disable Drupal Commerce's default logo.

  3. Once unchecked, more options will appear below this: the Path to custom logo field, and the Upload logo image field.

  4. To use an image that is already on your Drupal Commerce installation's server, simply enter the path to your logo file in the Path to custom logo field. Good directories to store your store's logo in could be image/ or sites/default/files/images/.

  5. Click on the Save configuration button to retain your new logo.

  6. To upload a logo from your computer to your Drupal Commerce site, use the Upload logo image field and click on the Save configuration button to save this choice of logo. Ensure that the Path to custom logo field is empty before saving, as otherwise it will produce an error. Either Path to custom logo or the Upload logo image field can be used, but you cannot use both together.

  7. If you now view the frontend of your Drupal Commerce store, you will see the new logo has appeared: