Chapter 1, Installing and Configuring Drupal Commerce, helps you get Drupal Commerce up and running and configured for basic e-commerce store requirements.

Chapter 2, Configuring Products with Drupal Commerce, takes you through creating products and categories in your store, and how to start customizing products to allow file uploads and other custom fields.

Chapter 3, Managing Your Drupal Commerce Store Day-to-day, includes useful hints and tips to keep your Drupal Commerce store up to date and useful how-to's of tasks you may need to do on a regular basis.

Chapter 4, Useful Modules for Drupal Commerce, explores some of the most useful modules you can use to extend and improve your online store.

Chapter 5, Payment and Shipping Modules for Drupal Commerce, provides walkthroughs of installation and configuration of the most common payment gateways, including SagePay and PayPal, as well as custom shipping methods.

Chapter 6, Drupal Commerce Search Engine Optimization, provides hints and tips to help boost your online store's search engine friendliness to help your store succeed online.

Chapter 7, Theming Drupal Commerce, gets to grips with customizing the look and feel of your Drupal Commerce store.

Chapter 8, Further Configuration, explores some further enhancements and configurations you can make to your store to improve it for both store owners and customers alike.

Appendix, A Blueprint for a T-shirt Store in Drupal Commerce, pulls the other chapters together into creating a store selling t-shirts online.

You will need access to a suitable platform to host Drupal 7 and Drupal Commerce. You can find a list of up-to-date requirements at http://drupal.org/project/commerce.

A basic knowledge of content management is assumed; pre-existing knowledge of Drupal or Drupal Commerce is not assumed. A basic knowledge of CSS and HTML may be beneficial, but is not entirely necessary.

This book is for online entrepreneurs, site builders, and web designers who want a helping hand at getting their online store up and running with Drupal Commerce.

This book focuses heavily on tasks that non-technical readers can achieve, bringing a fully functioning e-commerce website closer to those who have a get-up-and-go attitude thanks to Drupal.

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    </p>
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