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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

About the Author

Richard Carter is a web designer and a frontend web developer with a passion for a range of open source e-commerce and content management systems, including Magento, MediaWiki, and Drupal. He has worked with clients including Badminton England, University College Dublin, Directgov, NHS Choices, and BusinessLink.gov.uk.

Richard is Creative Director at Peacock Carter Ltd (peacockcarter.co.uk), a web design and development agency based in the North East of England. He graduated from the University of Durham in Software Engineering, and currently lives in Newcastle upon Tyne. He blogs at earlgreyandbattenburg.co.uk and tweets at twitter.com/RichardCarter.

This book is the author’s fifth; Richard has previously written MediaWiki Skins Design, Magento 1.3 Theme Design, Joomla! 1.5 Templates Cookbook, and Magento 1.4 Themes Design and has acted as a technical reviewer on The Definitive Guide to Drupal 7, Drupal 7 Business Solutions, MediaWiki 1.1 Beginners Guide, and Inkscape Illustrator’s Guide.