Beginning Django E-Commerce

✍ Scribed by Jim McGaw (auth.)

• Publisher: Apress
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 397
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Beginning Django E-Commerce guides you through producing an e-commerce site using Django, the most popular Python web development framework. Topics covered include how to make a shopping cart, a checkout, and a payment processor; how to make the most of Ajax; and search engine optimization best practices. Throughout the book, you'll take each topic and apply it to build a single example site, and all the while you'll learn the theory behind what you're architecting.

• Build a fully functional e-commerce site.
• Learn to architect your site properly to survive in an increasingly competitive online landscape with good search engine optimization techniques.
• Become versed in the Django web framework and learn how you can put it to use to drastically reduce the amount of work you need to do to get a site up and running quickly.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxi
Best Laid Plans....Pages 1-16
Creating a Django Site....Pages 17-38
Models for Sale....Pages 39-78
The Shopping Cart....Pages 79-108
Site Checkout & Orders....Pages 109-151
Creating User Accounts....Pages 153-171
Product Images....Pages 173-178
Implementing Product Search....Pages 179-192
Intelligent Cross-Selling....Pages 193-204
Adding in Ajax....Pages 205-229
Search Engine Optimization....Pages 231-254
Web Security Overview....Pages 255-278
Improving Performance....Pages 279-297
Django Testing....Pages 299-321
Deployment....Pages 323-339
Django on Google App Engine....Pages 341-364
Back Matter....Pages 365-384

✦ Subjects

Programming Techniques