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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

Migrating an HTML theme to a Drupal template


After all these previous discussions, we are now ready to address some more sophisticated XHTML and CSS issues. In this section, we will tackle the problem of converting an existing XHTML CSS template that you may have purchased or created in the past in a Drupal theme. The good news is that what we will describe here is a process of just a few minutes, and it will make your site up and ready for a mockup demo and put it at an 80%-completed level. The bad news is that the remaining 20% may take days to accomplish, as you would probably need to theme your views and specific content areas. However, it is always better to design visualizing the final outcome in front of you, and having some clear indications on what the desirable outcome should look like. We are making the assumption that the HTML template you are starting your conversion with is in the file structure depicted in the following screenshot:

This is the file structure most commonly used...