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Drupal E-commerce with Ubercart 2.x

By : George Papadongonas, Yiannis Doxaras
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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

Free themes


Theoretically speaking, you can use any of the free Drupal themes from the Drupal website. Τhe themes that we suggest here are designed especially for Ubercart and are appropriate for an e-commerce installation.

Acquia Prosper

Acquia Prosper is a free theme, designed especially for Ubercart. It is not a standalone theme, but it's a sub-theme of Fusion Core base theme (http://drupal.org/project/fusion). It provides enhanced features for your site, such as custom shopping cart icons, custom product templates, and themed catalog grid view.

Creator

Acquia, Top Notch Themes

AD Novus

This is a general Drupal theme, but its simplicity is ideal for an e-commerce website. It offers fixed and fluid versions, support for one- two- and three-column layouts, and compatibility with W3C standards.

Creator

Avioso Designs

Acquia Marina

Acquia Marina is another general Drupal theme that works well with Ubercart. It provides one-, two-, or three-column layouts, 15 collapsible block regions, and fluid or fixed layouts. The new version 3 is even more advanced, providing right-to-left theming and point-and-click layout.

Creator

Acquia, Top Notch Themes