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Drupal E-commerce with Ubercart 2.x

By : George Papadongonas, Yiannis Doxaras
Book Image

Drupal E-commerce with Ubercart 2.x

By: George Papadongonas, Yiannis Doxaras

Overview of this book

<p>Ubercart is an exciting open source e-commerce package that fully integrates your online store with Drupal. Ubercart leverages the advantages of Drupal's major core and contributed systems, providing your users with shopping cart functionality that integrates with other parts of your company or community web site. It can be used to sell shippable goods, downloadable products, recurring memberships, and event tickets, and to enable complex interactions with Drupal through various add-on contributions.<br /><br />This book guides you through the process of creating, administrating and marketing an online store, providing information and tips for raising your sales and your customer support. It will also show you how to maintain and add advanced capabilities to your company's eShop.<br /><br />If you are a merchant wanting to invest your precious time to update the online presence of your company, or a web site designer wanting to expand your business and offer innovative solutions to your clients, this book has been written for you. You don't need any programming experience to install and customize your electronic store. The procedure is well structured and easy and all we ask you to do is to follow some simple steps in order to complete some specific tasks in each chapter. The book will guide you through the installation and configuration of Drupal and Ubercart. From there it will cover specific areas like managing orders, customizing the frontend and user interface. At the end it covers the advanced topics of internet marketing techniques and Search Engine Optimization.<br /><br />When you reach the end of the book, you'll have a working store and you'll have obtained all the required knowledge to customize it to your specific needs.</p>
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Drupal e-commerce with Ubercart 2.x
Credits
About the Authors
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewer
Preface
Index

Modules used in Chapter 10


In Chapter 10, we try our hands on various techniques to promote our products and e-store, and also optimize our store for security. The following modules would be very helpful for that:

SEO Checklist

SEO Checklist doesn't add any new functionality to our site, but it suggests useful modules and checks that they are installed and properly configured.

Maintainers

Dave Reid, Kris Vanderwater, Ben Finklea

Pathauto

Pathauto automatically creates path aliases for our nodes, categories, and users. It generates search engine-friendly URLs and improves the ranking of our pages.

Maintainers

Greg Knaddison, Frederik S. Olesen, Clay Butterfly, Mike Ryan

Page Title

This module automatically creates <title> elements for our nodes and users. It also gives authors the ability to create a page title different from the node title.

Maintainers

Nicholas Thompson, John Wilkins, Robert Douglass

Global Redirect

Global Redirect creates page redirects and solves problems related to duplicate content and lower rankings by search engines.

Maintainers

Nicholas Thompson, Alexander Hass

Path redirect

Path redirect also uses redirects, but for another reason. It helps you to create redirects from old or deactivated pages to new ones.

Maintainers

Dave Reid, Alexander Hass, Steven N. Severinghaus, Jeff Robbins

Meta tags

Meta tags creates meta tags for your products and pages.

Maintainers

Alberto Paderno, Robrecht Jacques, Gábor Hojtsy

Site map

Site map creates a page with a site map in a readable form. The visitors of your site can view the structure of it, but it's also accessible by search engines.

Maintainer

Fredrik Jonsson

XML sitemap

XML sitemap automatically creates a site map that is compatible with the XML Sitemap protocol.

Maintainers

Dave Reid, Earnie Boyd, Alberto Paderno, Darren Oh

Service links

Service links allows you to share your content in the most popular networking sites, such as Facebook, StumbleUpon, Digg, Delicious, Google, Yahoo, and so on. People spend most of their time in these sites, so it's a great opportunity to inform them about your company and your products.

Maintainer

Rob Loach

Ubercart Google Base Integration

Ubercart Google Base Integration allows you to submit your products to Google Merchant Center (formerly known as Google Base).

Maintainer

John Youssef Ibrahim

Backup and Migrate

Backup and Migrate simplifies the task of backing up and restoring your database.

Maintainer

Ronan Dowling

Security Review

This is a simple module that checks your website and gives you a report about existing vulnerabilities.

Maintainer

Ben Jeavons

Mollom

Mollom is one of the best anti-spam tools available. It protects your site from several threats, such as spams in the form of comments, contacts, or password requests, or fake user account registrations.

Maintainers

Dave Reid, Dries Buytaert