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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

Improving performance


For the first weeks after you launch your new store, you don't have to worry about your site performance, because you will have few visitors. As the days go by, you'll see that traffic increases. Maybe an advertisement or an article in the local newspaper will cause a peak in you site's visitors—are you sure that your store is prepared to handle it? In this section, you will see how to improve the performance of your website and make it work faster using less resources. Keep in mind though, that the selected theme may also affect the performance, if it has lots of layout images, JavaScript, or effects.

Performance settings

You can improve your site's performance just by altering the cache settings and by compressing important files. Go to Home | Administer | Site configuration | Performance.

On this screen, the following options are available:

  • Caching mode: When you enable caching, Drupal stores the latest version of your page and serves this to anonymous users. Using...