PrestaShop 1.3 Beginner's Guide
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PrestaShop 1.3 Beginner's Guide

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  2. English
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eBook - ePub

PrestaShop 1.3 Beginner's Guide

About this book

In Detail

PrestaShop is a hidden gem. There are many much more widely known online shopping cart solutions that have nothing like the features, potential, and ease of use that this open source, completely free-to-use, system has. But until now there has been no information available on how to make the most of it. This book takes a step-by-step approach to help you set up your own e-commerce store and maximize its potential. Even if you are totally new to e-commerce and PrestaShop, you can have your own functioning e-commerce store quickly and with tiny expenditure. Imagine the feeling when you get that glorious e-mail saying that you have your first paying customer.

This practical guide follows the order of developing an active business. Packed with easy-to-follow steps with loads of screenshots and clear explanations, it follows a step-by-step approach to set up a PrestaShop e-commerce store from the very beginning through finding a web host, setting up your PrestaShop store, accepting money from customers, and planning for the future of your business.

The first few chapters are a lightening, but thorough, illustration of how to get your shop online, stocked up, and looking smart and unique, including some really cool and really simple product features to show off your wares in style - very quickly. The later chapters are quite diverse and cover some exciting stuff such as newsletters, loyalty schemes, alternative revenue streams, statistics and analytics. You will also learn about security, disaster recovery, payment handling, currencies, taxes, shipping, and more. Towards the end, the chapters cover final preparations before going live, handling orders in PrestaShop, and how to promote your store and get more customers. Once the money starts to flow, the book looks at the future of e-commerce and your PrestaShop business. Then it discusses how to get to the top of your niche and stay there. And then the big secret: to use the knowledge you have gained to turn a single PrestaShop into a thriving e-commerce empire.

The Appendix covers a number of worthwhile topics such as a handy PrestaShop control panel reference and various web resources for PrestaShop.

Start and run your own e-commerce business using PrestaShop

Approach

The book is structured so that following the chapters in order leads to building a fully functioning and live trading PrestaShop. Guidance is also given should you wish to learn or practice your skills in an offline, non-trading environment.

Every chapter contains clearly structured and illustrated step-by-step explanation to achieve the goals discussed. Nothing is left for readers to work out themselves, but it would be very simple for them to use the information to go beyond the specific tutorials, should they wish to do so.

There is optional additional reading, including more than a dozen specifically written downloadable e-books made available on the book's support website just for readers of PrestaShop 1.3 Beginners Guide.

Who this book is for

This book is for anybody who wants a fully functioning e-commerce store using PrestaShop. You do not have to have any previous knowledge of PrestaShop or any aspect of e-commerce or business in general. If you do, then you will probably find this guide really valuable as well. The book covers all you need to know about starting your own e-commerce business.

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Table of Contents

PrestaShop 1.3 Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
Preface
Why PrestaShop?
Simplicity and function
Stability and progress
It's cool!
Open source and OSL are the best!
Availability
Cost
Updates
Support
My golden rule of e-commerce
What this book covers
John's 7-day challenge
Installing, configuring, and stocking-up
Customers, search engines, and customization
Now and the future
Who this book is for
Which hosting environment?
Option 1: Developing on your own PC
Option 2: Live hosting accounts
PrestaShop turn-key hosting
Get your hosting ready to go
What happens if I get stuck?
www.prestashop-book.com
www.prestashop.com
www.businessdreams.net
Help others to help you
Remember
Conventions
Time for action - heading
What just happened?
Pop quiz - heading
Have a go hero - heading
Reader feedback
Customer support
Errata
Piracy
Questions
1. Building Your PrestaShop
Case studies
Downloading PrestaShop
Time for action - transferring files to your web host
What just happened?
Making a database
Time for action - creating a database
What just happened?
How to install PrestaShop
Time for action - the PrestaShop auto-installer
What just happened?
Post-install security
Deleting the install folder
Time for action - how to delete the install folder
What just happened?
Renaming the admin folder
Time for action - renaming the admin folder
What just happened?
Your shop-front explained
Header
Column (left & right)
Main content
Footer
Your admin control panel
Time for action - logging in to your PrestaShop control panel
What just happened?
Control panel guided tour
Have a go hero - hunt the PrestaShop thimble
Before we continue
Pop quiz - a few questions about Chapter 1
Summary
2. Shop Fitting and Layout
Arranging key modules
Cart block
Time for action - installing the shopping cart module
What just happened?
Categories block
User info block
My account block
Time for action - making a customer account
What just happened?
Permanent links block
Suppliers and manufacturers blocks
Quick search block
Footer links block
Have a go hero - moving the blocks around
Creating your home page
What goes on your home page?
Unique Selling Proposition
Most important facts or navigation
Products
Time for action - how to add your content to your home page
What just happened?
Creating the 'must-have' pages
Delivery
Legal notice
Terms and conditions
About us
Secure payment
Time for action - using the content management system
What just happened?
Suppliers and manufacturers
What about suppliers?
Time for action - defining manufacturers and suppliers
What just happened?
Contacting your store
Contacts
Time for action - creating departments to contact
What just happened?
PrestaShop themes
Finding themes
Choosing a great theme
Installing the themes
Time for action - installing a PrestaShop theme
What just happened?
Pop quiz - themes and things
Customizing your template
Important preliminary point
Moving modules around
Time for action - moving modules
What just happened?
Customizing the default image sizes
Time for action - changing the default image size
What just happened?
PrestaShop templates
Time for action - creating a new template
What just happened?
Editing your CSS file
Background-color
Font-size
Want more?
Time for action - editing and updating your CSS file
What just happened?
Changing graphics
Buttons and icons
Themes summary
The cherry on top
Time for action - uploading your company/store logo
What just happened?
Summary
3. Merchandising for Success
Shop categories
Planning your category structure
Creating your categories
Time for action - how to create product categories
What just happened?
Creating content for your categories and subcategories
Time for action - adding category descriptions
What just happened?
Adding products
Product descriptions that sell
Actually selling the product
Ask for the sale
Create some images with GIMP
Time for action - how to add a product to your PrestaShop
What just happened?
Highlighting products
New products
Time for action - how to highlight your newest products
What just happened?
Specials
Time for action - creating a special offer
What just happened?
Recently viewed
Best sellers
Accessories
Time for action - creating an accessory
What just happened?
Features
Time for action - using PrestaShop's 'Features'
What just happened?
Attributes
Time for action - an attributes example
What just happened?
Have a go hero - the combinations generator
Customizing
Time for action - allowing your customers to customize
What just happened?
Product mania!
Pop quiz - a few product marketing questions
Summary
4. Giving Customers More and Getting More Customers
SEO: Search Engine Optimization
Which keywords should we use?
Discovering the value of keywords
A keyword success story
Don't fall off your chair
Keyword clarification
Meta tags
Types of meta tag
Time for action - PrestaShop meta tags
What just happened?
Search aliases
Choosing aliases
Time for action - creating the article
What just happened?
Tag clouds
Time for action - creating a tag cloud
What just happened?
Search-friendly and canonical URLs
Search-friendly
Time for action - how to get search-friendly URLs
What just happened?
Canonical
Time for action - choosing your canonical URL
What just happened?
Writing and displaying articles
Good ideas when writing articles
Make your articles easy reading
Think about your ...

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