Selling Online with Drupal e-Commerce: Walk through the creation of an online store with Drupal's e-Commerce module (From Technologies to Solutions)
- Book ID
- 126066886
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 238 KB
- Category
- Standards
- ISBN-13
- 9781847194060
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✦ Synopsis
Selling Online with Drupal e-Commerce:Walk through the creation of an online store with Drupal's e-Commerce module (From Technologies to Solutions) by Michael Peacock
Publisher: Packt Publishing (April 3, 2008) | 264 pages | ISBN: 1847194060
Drupal is a free and open-source modular web application framework and content management system (CMS) written in PHP that can run in many environments, including Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and FreeBSD. Drupal e-Commerce is a free, open-source, feature-rich, flexible package of modules that seamlessly adds full e-Store capabilities to Drupal.
Drupal e-Commerce is the combination of Drupal, the award-winning Drupal 5 content management system, and the e-Commerce package of modules that can be plugged into it, bringing a wealth of e-commerce functionality to the software.
In this book you will learn how to use the Drupal content management system along with its e-Commerce modules to set up and manage an online shop. We will install the software, have a look at its features, plan our shop, create our shop, look at customer management, create a design for our shop, and cover security, taxes, shipping, and even marketing our business!
If you're new to Drupal and want to set up a powerful e-commerce system, this book is for you. If you've some experience of working with Drupal and want to understand how its e-commerce options can be used to power an online shop, this book will also prove invaluable.
What you will learn from this book?
- Why to choose Drupal for e-commerce
- Installing and configuring Drupal and its e-Commerce module
- How Drupal and its e-Commerce module work
- Creating and managing content
- Creating and managing user accounts, roles, and permissions
- Things to think about when planning to sell online
- Structuring your site, your product catalogue, and framing a shopping process for users
- Framing business policies to handle legal and professional issues
- Branding your site by customizing default themes
- Installing new themes and creating a custom theme
- Customizing the checkout process for processing orders
- Creating a better selling experience
- Attracting customers with discounts, coupons, auctions, donations, flexicharges
- Working with taxes and shipping rules in Drupal e-Commerce
- Drupal e-Commerce's shipping API modules
- Securing and maintaining your site (deploy, backup, restore)
- Creating and managing invoices using the Invoices module
- Integrating CiviCRM to manage appointments and log phone calls
- Improving traffic with Search Engine Optimization
- Advertising programmes, newsletters, and viral marketing campaigns
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