Do you want to open an e-commerce store of your own but don't know where to start? Or perhaps you've narrowed down your selection of shopping cart software, and want to find out more about nopCommerce? Packt Publishing has published a book that targets people just like you! The book, titled "Getting Started with nopCommerce - An in-depth, practical guide to getting your first e-commerce website up and running using nopCommerce", is a comprehensive book perfect for first-time e-commerce store owners and wannabes who wants to set up their own stores and be able to manage the stores.
Table of Content
The book is divided into 5 chapters, starting from basic introduction of nopCommerce to advanced concept on how to manage an nopCommerce store. Below is a list of the chapters, visit this page for full content list.
- Chapter 1: Downloading and Installing nopCommerce
- Chapter 2: The Public-facing Storefront
- Chapter 3: The Administration Site
- Chapter 4: Configuring the Store
- Chapter 5: Processing Orders
Chapter 1 talks about how to set up a local and remote environment for running nopCommerce. It also gives a basic guideline of choosing the correct hosts for nopCommerce websites.
Chapter 2 goes through the common front-end pages of nopCommerce and explains the important sections of each page. It gives people not familiar with nopCommerce a good overview of the what the user experiences for a fresh nopCommerce installation.
Chapter 3 jumps into the admin dashboard pages and explains the basic management of an nopCommerce website such as adding products, categories and manufactureres. The chapter places emphasis on the various ways of setting up products.
Chapter 4 explains more about configuring the site in general. It covers issues such as payment methods, shipping methods, taxes, plugins and other content management.
Chapter 5 concludes the book by looking at the order processing feature of nopCommerce. It guides the readers through the whole order processing, starting by a customer placing an order to payment and shipping to actually closing the order.
Who Should Read This Book?
This book is definitely not for any seasoned developers or owners who already have good understanding of nopCommerce. On the other hand, if you are new to e-commerce, shopping cart and nopCommerce, this book is for you. You can be a developer with no prior nopCommerce experience, who wants to know more about nopCommerce and what it can do for your clients. Or you can be an e-commerce store wannabe who wants to see what nopCommerce has in store for you as a store owner. Perhaps you already have heard many good reviews about nopCommerce, and want to quickly get started benig familiar with it.
This book can be bought at http://link.packtpub.com/qu91ht.
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