Instant E-Commerce with Magento: Build a Shop

A fast-paced, practical guide to building your own shop with Magento

Overview

• Learn something new in an Instant! A short, fast, focused guide delivering immediate results.
• Learn how to install and configure an online shop with Magento
• Tackle difficult tasks like payment gateways, shipping options, and custom theming
• Full of clear screenshots and step-by-step instructions

In Detail

Magento is a highly customizable and powerful e-commerce solution which offers you the potential to create a robust and attractive online store.

This book teaches you how to build your own online shop with step-by-step, easy-to-follow instructions. You will learn how to install, configure, and customize your own shop in order to create an attractive and fully functional store in no time.

In "Instant E-Commerce with Magento: Build a Shop" you will be taken through the required steps to create an awesome e-commerce solution. This book starts by showing you how to correctly set up and install Magento before moving onto creating products and their attributes.

If the world of payment gateways and shipping options sounds complicated, don’t worry. This guide will take you through the essentials required to set up and manage how your customers are going to pay for and receive their orders. Finishing with themes and appearance, this book will ensure you end up with a powerful, attractive, and fully functioning online store.

What you will learn from this book

• Learn how to install Magento
• Build vivid descriptions for your catalog of products
• Add products to your online catalog
• Accept payments such as Paypal
• Offer a multitude of shipping rates and options
• Modify the look and feel of your Magento shop
• Create transactional emails for your customers
• Manage product attributes to help customers find the product they are really looking for

Approach

Filled with practical, step-by-step instructions and clear explanations for the most important and useful tasks. Get the job done and learn as you go. "Instant E-Commerce with Magento: Build a Shop" is written in a friendly, helpful style which takes you through several distinct recipes all geared to getting you started with Magento and selling your products as quickly and as efficiently as possible. The only thing you need to bring to the table is a desire to sell your products online.

Who this book is written for

This book is for anyone who wants to learn how to quickly set up, configure, and manage an online shop with Magento. Regardless of whether you are technically skilled or not, this book will show you show to create a fully functioning e-commerce solution.