Magento: Beginners Guide is a new book from Packt that walks users through building an online store using the Magento open-source e-commerce solution. Written by William Rice, Magento Beginners Guide focuses on the key features of Magento to setup a unique online store and customize its appearance with the help of examples.
Magento is the world’s most evolved e-commerce solution and runs on the Apache/MySQL/PHP platform. From one installation, users can control multiple storefronts, all sharing customer and product information. Magento’s templates and themes enable users to customize the look and feel of their store, even optimizing it for mobile phones. Extensions enable them to connect Magento to a large number of payment gateways and shipping services.
This book follows a step-by-step approach teaching users to install and configure Magento, and add products to their online catalog. To help customers navigate their online store, the reader will learn to create categories and attributes to build their catalog of products and enhance it with descriptions, images, and inventory information.
Users will be able to present and sell products in groups and sets, and can offer discounts based on quantities along with accepting payments using PayPal, credit cards, and checks/money orders while offering a variety of shipping options. Along with connecting to shippers such as UPS, FedEx, and USPS they will learn to apply sales tax rules to different shipping addresses and different types of products, thus creating customized shipping rates.
Magento: Beginners Guide is published by Packt and is out now. For more information, please visit http://www.packtpub.com/magento-beginners-guide/book
More on what you will learn from the book
- Install and configure Magento and add products to your online catalog
- Create categories and attributes to build your catalog of products
- Enhance your products with descriptions, images, and inventory information
- Create product categories to help your customers navigate your online store
- Automatically apply sales tax rules to different shipping addresses and different types of products
- Present and sell products in groups and sets
- Display products related to the one that is being viewed by a customer
- Offer your customer choices for a product’s size, color, or other attribute and give discounts based on quantities
- Accept payments using Paypal, credit cards, and checks/money orders and offer a variety of shipping options
- Create your own, customized shipping rates and connect to shippers such as UPS, FedEx, and USPS
Update: Packt Publishing has released a free PDF version of Chapter 3 - Categories and Attributes – of the Magento Beginners Guide book. Be sure to check it out here:
http://www.packtpub.com/files/magento-sample-chapter-3-categories-and-attributes.pdf
About the author
William Rice is a software training professional who lives, works, and plays in New York City. His indoor hobbies include writing books and spending way too much time reading sites like slashdot and 43folders. His outdoor hobbies include orienteering, rock climbing, and edible wild plants (a book on that is coming someday).
William is fascinated by the relationship between technology and society: how we create our tools, and how our tools in turn shape us. He is married to an incredible woman who encourages his writing pursuits, and has two amazing sons.
For more updates on him and his work, you could visit his online blog: http://williamriceinc.blogspot.com
Check out all the details and purchase the book at Packt Publishing
http://www.packtpub.com/magento-beginners-guide/book
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