What you need for this book
by Robbert Ravensbergen, Sander Schoneville
Magento Beginner's Guide - Second Edition
- Magento Beginner's Guide - Second Edition
- Table of Contents
- Magento Beginner's Guide - Second Edition
- Credits
- About the Authors
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
- 1. Installation
- Installing Magento locally
- Requirements
- Time for action – installing Magento on a Windows machine
- I'm on Mac; what should I do?
- Installing Magento at a hosting service
- How to choose a Magento hosting provider
- Installatron
- Time for action – installing Magento using Installatron
- What is SSL and do I need it?
- Summary
- 2. General Configuration
- 3. Categories and Attributes
- 4. Simple Products
- Adding a Simple Product
- Time for action – filling the General tab
- Time for action – filling the Prices tab
- Time for action – filling the Meta Information tab
- Time for action – filling the Images tab
- Time for action – filling the Custom tab
- Time for action – filling the Inventory tab
- Time for action – filling the Categories tab
- Related products, up-selling, and cross-selling
- Time for action – adding related products
- Summary
- 5. Beyond Adding Simple Products
- 6. Customer Relationships
- 7. Accepting Payments
- 8. Configuring Shipping
- 9. Customizing Your Store's Appearance
- Magento themes
- Your home page, CMS pages, and static blocks
- Changing transactional e-mails
- Time for action – changing the text inside transactional e-mails
- Choosing between a pre-made and a custom-made theme
- A combination
- Suppliers for premade themes
- Installing a theme
- Making changes to your theme
- Time for action – changing a heading to normal text
- Time for action – changing the color of a heading
- Time for action – removing a block from the right column
- Summary
- 10. Fulfilling Orders
- Sales orders on the frontend
- Time for action – creating a first sales order
- Managing sales orders on the backend
- Time for action – opening and processing an order
- Creating sales orders on the backend
- Time for action – creating a manual Sales Order
- Returns and Credit Memos
- Time for action – creating a Credit Memo
- Summary
- 11. Maintaining and Administrating Your Store
- Managing your store
- Overview of your Magento installation
- Go-live checklist configuration settings
- General settings
- Web settings
- HTML Head
- Placeholder images
- Contact information and e-mail addresses
- Tax rates
- Payment methods and shipping methods
- Currency
- Transactional e-mails – password text
- Admin URL
- 404 (page not found)
- Stock
- Google Analytics
- Caching
- Index Management
- Licenses
- Daily tasks / cron jobs
- Log cleaning
- Database backups
- Product meta information
- Default images in columns
- Escalations
- Further development of your website
- Time for action – planning for the future
- Working with partners
- Time for action – structuring development partnerships
- Modifying Magento
- Cache
- Upgrading Magento
- Summary
- A. Pop Quiz Answers
- Index
You do not need any specific software to be able to use the instructions in this book. Just use a modern Windows computer or Mac. You'll need the following tools as well, but it's completely up to you to choose the tool you like:
- An FTP client, for instance, Filezilla.
- Photo editing software for your images. Photoshop is often used, but expensive. Actually any editing tool that you know how to use should be able to deliver good results.
- A text editor, such as Notepad++ (Windows) or Coda 2 (Mac).
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