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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

Optimizing product images


The default Magento template uses three sizes of pictures: Base Image, Small Image, and Thumbnail. These are uploaded on the Product Information page under the Images tab. Magento uses these different sizes in different places:

Size

Pixels

Where it's Used

Base

265 x 265 (or larger)

On the product page

Small

135 x 135

In catalog listings

Thumbnail

75 x 75

On the checkout page

The easiest thing to do is upload a large, square product picture and let Magento generate the other sizes. However, this doesn't always give the best results. At small sizes, your product might not be recognizable. Consider this catalog page, where the product images appear at a size of 135 x 135 pixels. The following page is at the actual size:

At the small size, these products might not be immediately recognized by a shopper. If you're using the default template, you would need to change the template files to change the default picture sizes. However, you can crop and zoom the...