A step by step introduction to osCommerce.
- A step by step introduction to osCommerce
- Install and configure osCommerce
- Build your first ecommerce website
- A special Beginnner’s edition of the complete
In Detail
Using an easy-to-read and engaging style, this book introduces the fundamentals of osCommerce, and helps you build your first online store. It covers the out-of-the-box features of osCommerce, but it also shows you how to customize the application to your own needs.
The book starts with the basics of downloading and installing osCommerce, or simply how to enable it on your Internet domain using the tools provided by your host. All of the most important configuration issues are explained, with clear instructions and advice to help you make the right choices.
Once osCommerce is installed and configured, you will take a good look at how to work with your store’s data including product information as well as other data which is responsible for keeping your site healthy.
The all important topic of customization is also dealt with comprehensively. You will see how to develop attractive sites that will make your store a pleasure to browse and your products a pleasure to buy!
Of course, no discussion on osCommerce would be complete without a look at how to obtain and treat payments. Using the modules provided with osCommerce you will be collecting money from your happy customers in no time!
Once the reader has a fully fledged, and operational site it is time to look at deployment an important topic for discussion if development has taken place on a development machine.
The appendix will add a few tools to your armory and shed some light as to what is going on behind the scenes in case things go awry.
Who this book is written for?
This book is written for:
- first time users of osCommerce
- current osCommerce who would like to further customize their websites
- anyone who would like to quickly build a website for their online business
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Increase your sales and profits with expert tips on SEO, Marketing, Design, Selling Strategies, etc.
- Turn your e-commerce site into a money-making enterprise
- Full of practical tips and tricks to improve profit with osCommerce
- Professional advice on choosing the best contributions
In Detail
If you have an osCommerce-based online business, you need this book. Packed with expert guidance on all aspects of building a better online, this book will make your store stand out from the crowd.
All approaches and techniques described here are proven to have worked well for successful osCommerce-based online businesses among the, over 650, all around the globe with which the author has been actively involved as developer, project manager, or online business consultant.
osCommerce is an open-source e-commerce solution written in PHP and MySQL that can be set up on various platforms. More than 10,000 businesses and sole traders all around the world benefit from its features and flexibility. The importance of the osCommerce community consisting of over 100,000 can not be stressed enough as this is where both online merchants and web developers can communicate and find solutions. There are many “contributions” — modules for osCommerce that further extend its functionality — making it suitable for almost every business’s requirements.
What you will learn from this book?
- Calculate and monitor profits
- Monitor and track efficiency of advertising campaigns
- Optimize your osCommerce online store for search engines
- Internal and External Search Engine Optimization (SEO):
- Getting popular on search engines
- Web page optimization
- Structure and dynamic content
- Keyword selection
- Back-linking strategies
- Make your SEO campaigns pay off
- Superb ideas for appealing store design
- Reach profitable new markets by fine-tuning your product catalog
- Best practices for product listing and product information pages
- Build and maintain customer confidence
- Run a properly planned promotion campaign
- Use and extend the reporting facility of osCommerce
- Practical insights on creating custom reports
- Improve your process and efficiency while maintaining business profitability
- Convert customers into repeat customers
Approach
Packed with expert advice and practical examples of effective store design and report creation to help you make better decisions, formulate more effective strategies, and measure your success.
Who this book is written for?
This book is for anyone administering an osCommerce site, including webmasters, content managers, store owners, and marketing managers, who do not need to understand PHP or MySQL to benefit from this book. The tips and techniques described in this book can be applied to any small, medium sized e-commerce site.
This is not an implementation guide; developers implementing osCommerce-based e-commerce sites would benefit from reading Deep Inside osCommerce: The Cookbook.
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Ready-to-use recipes to customize and extend your e-commerce website
- osCommerce expert “Monika in Germany” lets you in on her secrets on how to hack your way to that perfect osCommerce site
- Create new modules and custom-code your default osCommerce installation
- Add extensions and features like category driven designs and individual shipping modules
In Detail
osCommerce has been around since March 2000. At present there are over 10,000 live, registered osCommerce sites, and about 100,000 registered community members. Apart from providing ready-made solutions to problems, as well as a huge repository of information, the osCommerce community is a living entity with which we can all interact. With the rising success and popularity of this remarkable piece of software, things can only get better.
What you will learn from this book? The book has 11 chapters, each dealing with a different aspect of osCommerce.
Chapter 1 equips you with a few very easy and very important changes to the basic design which will make developing and later modifying a whole new template a breeze.
Chapter 2 will help you modify your navigation to ensure a smoother shopping experience for your customers.
Chapter 3 covers infoboxes and turns you into an expert in tweaking them to your needs.
Chapter 4 deals with one of the most important visual parts of your shop, the product display in the listings and the detail page.
Chapter 5 outlines different methods to make searching on your site a fun experience. You want your customers to use your search and to find the products you want to sell to them.
Chapter 6 highlights customizations of the checkout process, namely the flow from the shopping cart to the shipping and payment pages up to the order email.
Chapter 7 talks about new shipping modules. You will learn how to adapt existing modules to create completely new rate systems for your shop.
Chapter 8 focuses on existing payment modules and how they can be tweaked.
Chapter 9 provides tips on efficiently using banners as a marketing tool.
Chapter 10 is a goodie bag of extra special treats to indulge your sweet tooth.
Chapter 11 tackles changes in the admin area. You alone will be the keeper of these secret recipes hidden to the public eye.
Approach
This book is aimed at people with existing online stores, built using osCommerce. The book follows a systematic approach whereby users can modify and extend features on their already existing osCommerce site. Each chapter deals with a different aspect , and provides ready-made recipes for modifying code to your requirements. The author starts by explaining basic changes one can make to the design of your store, and then covers features like navigation, images, shipping and payment modules, and even explains how to make changes on the administrator’s side and keeping your own recipes private.
Who this book is written for?
This book is for people who are already familiar with osCommerce. It presumes a working knowledge of PHP and HTML, as well as basic understanding of phpMyAdmin for database inserts.
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– Review and comparison of Credit Card Payment Processors so you can easily choose the best one for your company’s needs. Includes fees, countries available, length of commitment, and ease of installation.
– Shipping Methods comparison to make selecting the right shipper easy.
– Records and Database Management, Disaster Planning & Recovery. Hurricane Ivan, we’ve got you covered.
osCommerce Users Manual, Version 2.0 shows you everything you can do yourself using the Administrative Module, once the program is installed (and we can refer you to hosts who will install your site FOR FREE), including:
– Entering your “My Store” settings
– Entering your product information
– Linking to your credit card processor or PayPal
– Setting your Shipping and Taxes
– Editing your Privacy Statement, Contact, Shipping & Returns, and Welcome page
– Maintaining Your Store, Managing Orders & Customers, and
– What you can comfortably tackle by yourself, and what you should leave to a technical pro-and we can refer you to technical pros.
PLUS, exclusive QUICK START GUIDE can help you get your first OSCommerce Website up and running in as little as 30 minutes after installation.
CHOCK-FULL of FREE CHECKLISTS and CHEATSHEETS
…to make managing your new store a breeze, including: -List of Web Hosts, Installers & Consultants – many will install or move your store for FREE
-PRE-SETUP Checklist for Your Store
-Font and Color Selectors
-Look and Feel Checklist
-InfoBox Checklist
-Greetings Checklist
-Advanced Users’ Fully-Commented Style Sheet
-Advanced Users’ Annotated Cheat Sheet
These checklists and cheat sheets are also available to readers ON THE WEB as forms that can be filled out by the client and emailed to the installer. They may be used by osCommerce consultants, installers and web hosts to zip through your installations!
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If you need to quickly learn how to set up and operate an online business… especially if you have no prior experience with websites or ecommerce… YOU NEED THIS BOOK. The CRE Loaded Training Manual makes learning the “language” of ecommerce easy and fun. Each chapter corresponds to a chapter in the CRE Loaded User Manual, giving insight and background into the material.
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