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Magento 1.3 Sales Tactics Cookbook

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Magento 1.3 Sales Tactics Cookbook

Overview of this book

Magento is a feature-rich, professional open source e-commerce solution that offers users complete flexibility and control over the look, content, and functionality of their online store. Although Magento provides users with the power to create dynamic e-commerce sites, it can be challenging to get beyond the basics and create sites that are tailored to your unique business needs.This book gives you a hands-on experience on Magento, helping you increase your revenue by implementing proven sales tactics on your Magento site.This book contains techniques to help you with each stage of selling to your customers: attracting visitors, driving them to your product pages, making the sale, increasing sales, engaging your customers, and more. It contains a powerful mix of techniques for increasing sales in your online storefront. Over thirty of the techniques are short and stand alone. A few are designed to be used together, such as the seven techniques in the chapter on creating an international storefront. Some techniques make creative use of Magento’s standard features. A few techniques combine Magento with other tools, such as social networking sites. All the techniques are explained in clear, step-by-step directions, with many screenshots. The book uses an example site for each technique, so that you can see exactly how it will affect your storefront. You can jump into the book at any point, or, work through it from beginning to end.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Magento 1.3 Sales Tactics Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface

Installing a language pack


Installing a language pack is the first step to internationalizing your store. Remember, the language pack will translate Magento's interface, not your product information.

How to do it....

First, we need to get the extension key for the language pack.

  1. 1. Point your browser to http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect.

  2. 2. Search for the language pack of your choice:

  1. 3. Click the link for Get extension key.

  2. 4. You will be prompted to agree to the extension license agreement:

  1. 5. Click on the GET EXTENSION KEY button. The extension key is displayed:

  2. 6. Select and copy the extension key. You might want to keep this window open while you complete the next part.

Now, it is time to install the extension:

  1. 1. In another browser tab or window, log in to the administrative interface of your Magento.

  2. 2. Select System | Magento Connect | Magento Connect Manager.

  3. 3. You will be prompted to log in to the connect manager. Enter your Magento administrator username and password, and...