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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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