Book Image

Instant E-commerce with OpenCart: Build a Shop

By : Murat Yilmaz
Book Image

Instant E-commerce with OpenCart: Build a Shop

By: Murat Yilmaz

Overview of this book

<p>For years, starting an e-commerce shop was considered a hard task with the need of a significant amount of money, time, and resources. OpenCart makes this process easier and enables anyone to create an attractive and profitable e-commerce solution. This concise guide will show you how to create a robust and striking online store with OpenCart.</p> <p>"Instant E-Commerce with OpenCart: Build a Shop" teaches you how to build your own online shop with step-by-step, easy-to-follow instructions. You will learn how to install, configure, and customize your own shop in order to create an attractive and fully functional store in no time. If you have always wanted to create an online shop, but don’t know how, then this book is for you!</p> <p>In "Instant E-Commerce with OpenCart: Build a Shop", you will be taken through the required steps to create an awesome e-commerce solution. This book starts by showing you how to correctly set up and install OpenCart, before moving on to creating products and their attributes.</p> <p>If the world of payment gateways and shipping options sounds complicated, don’t worry. This guide will take you through the essentials required to set up and manage how your customers are going to pay for and receive their orders! Finishing with vouchers, templates, and SEO, this book will ensure you end up with a powerful, attractive, and profitable online store.</p>
Table of Contents (7 chapters)

About the Reviewer

Branko Ajzele was born on January 16, 1983 in Osijek, Croatia. He studied in the field of Electrotechnology at both high school and college. He graduated from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at Osijek in 2006. Although not directly related to IT, during his college days, he fell in love with web-related technologies. He initially worked as a full time Computer Consultant and later as a full time IT System Administrator. After that, he got hooked on programming. He has spent over six years learning and developing both desktop and web applications in different programming environments, such as C#, Java, and later, PHP. He is currently working as the CTO (he has a Magento Certified Developer Plus certification) at a company called Inchoo. Inchoo specializes in building and delivering high quality e-commerce solutions mostly powered by the Magento eCommerce platform. At Inchoo, he gained over four years of Magento development and e-commerce project management experience. Additionally, he is highly experienced in Zend Framework, Doctrine ORM, Symfony, and PHP in general. Besides web technologies, his latest interests are mobile platforms such as Android and iOS.