Michael Peacock
Michael Peacock is a web developer and senior partner of Peacock, Carter & Associates ( a web design and development business. Michael loves building websites and web applications, and when he isn?t, likes to read, watch films and occasionally take part in amateur dramatics.
WordPress 2.8 E-Commerce
Product Description
Build a proficient online store to sell products and services
- Earn huge profits by transforming WordPress into an intuitive and capable platform for e-Commerce
- Build and control a vast product catalog to sell physical items and digital downloads
- Configure and integrate various payment gateways into your store for your customers’ convenience
- Promote and market your store online for increased profits
- Follow a practical, step-by-step guide packed with screenshots to ensure your store is created and deployed successfully
In Detail
WordPress is easily one of the hottest platforms for building blogs and general web sites. With the addition of the WP e-Commerce plug-in, it’s also a competent platform for easily creating and running an online store, capable of selling physical items as well as services and digital downloads. WordPress with e-Commerce offers every feature that a seller and a customer may need. You can build an online store that makes it easier for the customers to find and buy products.
WordPress 2.8 e-Commerce focuses on the integration of WordPress with the WordPress e-Commerce plug-in, covering all aspects of building and developing an online store from scratch.
This book provides a simple, step-by-step approach to developing an effective online store. It guides you through your initial planning and first steps, plug-in installation and configuration, building your catalog of products to sell, accepting payments for your orders, and dealing with taxes and shipping. You will also learn how to promote and market your new store, handle customer accounts and staff roles, and deal with essential store security.
As you work through each chapter, your online store will grow in scope and functionality. By the time you finish this book, you will have a complete and working store, ready to release your products to the world.
What you will learn from this book
- Tweak WordPress to build an adept, business-friendly online store
- Install and configure WP e-Commerce and add products to your online catalog
- Manage and sort your products with groups, categories, tags, and variations
- making it easier for your customers to find any product
- Automate the delivery of digital downloads after purchase ensuring the convenience of your customers
- Create and manage user account roles and permissions for customers and staff
- Brand your site by customizing WordPress themes
- Accept payments using a variety of payment processors and automatically apply sales tax and shipping
- Create your own customizable shipping rates and connect to shippers such as USPS and UPS
- Secure your online store against attacks and data loss
- Explore alternative e-Commerce plug-ins for WordPress
Approach
This book provides an easy to understand, step-by-step approach to installing, configuring, and using WP e-Commerce to run your online store. We will construct an example store in the book with enough information and flexibility to adapt the store to your specific needs.
Who this book is written for
This book is for you, if you are interested in using WordPress as the basis for a store that can sell physical items, downloads, or services.
It is ideal for a sole proprietor or small business owner with only basic, in-house technical skills. Some prior knowledge of WordPress will help, but is not required. No knowledge of PHP is expected, but it will also be helpful.
Dotnetnuke Ecommerce SDN
February 9, 2010 · Posted in DotNetNuke · Comment
Escenario de muestra de E-commerce utilizando el framework Dotnetnuke
iPhone & iPod Touch experience with a Typical DotNetNuke Ecommerce Application
January 13, 2010 · Posted in DotNetNuke · Comment
This is SalarOs first Study for DotNetNuke usability within the enormously successful iPhone & iPod mobile devices arena. It is predicted that by end of this year, there will be Approx 100 million ipod/iphone in operation around the world. Therefore, it is good time to produce web applications that are also usable with this kind of devices. In this session I try and show you our existing ecommerce shop and its working in iphone and highlight the areas of improvement to come, when the …
Set Up an Online Store Using New Drupal E-commerce Book
This book will show you how to sell online using the award-winning open-source Drupal web application. No prior experience of Drupal is required; you will learn all you need as you step through the creation of an online shop.
You will learn the basics of Drupal, and see how to use the standard features of Drupal to begin construction of an online shop, and improve the selling interface, handling of orders, and reporting with new modules and other customizations.
In Detail
Drupal is a free and open-source modular web application framework and content management system (CMS) written in PHP that can run in many environments, including Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and FreeBSD. Drupal e-Commerce is a free, open-source, feature-rich, flexible package of modules that seamlessly adds full e-Store capabilities to Drupal.
Drupal e-Commerce is the combination of Drupal, the award-winning Drupal 5 content management system, and the e-Commerce package of modules that can be plugged into it, bringing a wealth of e-commerce functionality to the software.
In this book you will learn how to use the Drupal content management system along with its e-Commerce modules to set up and manage an online shop. We will install the software, have a look at its features, plan our shop, create our shop, look at customer management, create a design for our shop, and cover security, taxes, shipping, and even marketing our business!
If you’re new to Drupal and want to set up a powerful e-commerce system, this book is for you. If you’ve some experience of working with Drupal and want to understand how its e-commerce options can be used to power an online shop, this book will also prove invaluable.
What you will learn from this book
* Why to choose Drupal for e-commerce
* Installing and configuring Drupal and its e-Commerce module
* How Drupal and its e-Commerce module work
* Creating and managing content
* Creating and managing user accounts, roles, and permissions
* Things to think about when planning to sell online
* Structuring your site, your product catalogue, and framing a shopping process for users
* Framing business policies to handle legal and professional issues
* Branding your site by customizing default themes
* Installing new themes and creating a custom theme
* Customizing the checkout process for processing orders
* Creating a better selling experience
* Attracting customers with discounts, coupons, auctions, donations, flexicharges
* Working with taxes and shipping rules in Drupal e-Commerce
* Drupal e-Commerce’s shipping API modules
* Securing and maintaining your site (deploy, backup, restore)
* Creating and managing invoices using the Invoices module
* Integrating CiviCRM to manage appointments and log phone calls
* Improving traffic with Search Engine Optimization
* Advertising programmes, newsletters, and viral marketing campaigns
Approach
The book starts with the basics of Drupal and then steps you through the creation of an online shop, exploring Drupal further as needed. Only the features of Drupal relevant to the e-commerce application will be covered.
Written in a straightforward, easy-to-understand manner, the book provides the essentials of getting your e-commerce website up and running with Drupal.
Who this book is written for
This book is for people who want to start selling online as quickly as possible, and want to see how to use the proven Drupal platform to achieve this.
The book is ideal for use in a small business with only basic in-house technical skills. It will also be useful for developers who not only want to create an e-commerce site, but also want a CMS platform for expanding the site in the future. No prior knowledge of Drupal is required. No PHP experience is expected, although it will be useful. Basic knowledge of e-commerce will also be useful, although the main concepts are introduced and covered as required.
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Maximizing Drupal Ecommerce for Higher Profitability
The potential for access to customers and high profitability are what drives ecommerce on the web. But with ecommerce comes a special set of needs and responsibilities. These can be managed quite effectively by utilizing the right Drupal ecommerce tools as you develop your Drupal design. In most cases, getting Drupal ecommerce right leans seeking the help of experts—Drupal experts.
Better Drupal Design With The Experts
One of the things that has a large bearing on the success of any ecommerce site—whether based in Drupal design or not—is the clarity and functionality of the website. In this aspect the success of any given ecommerce website relies heavily on the design of the website itself. A profitable business website needs to be
• Attractive and inviting, visually speaking
• Unique and cutting edge, offering the visitor something much better than average
• Utterly clear and simple in use, while still fulfilling the visitor’s needs for attractiveness, information, and functionality
• Friendly to search engines so that it also can be ranked and found
• Secure
Successful ecommerce sites give all the elements the visitor needs them to in order to convert hits to sales. But achieving all of these things and finding a way to package them nicely—and still maintain that high level of function that visitors need to complete the sale is an awful tall order. It takes a very talented and knowledgeable Drupal developer to cohesively design a profitable Drupal ecommerce site.
Your Drupal Designer—Your Key To Profitable Drupal Ecommerce
The core Drupal installation is not designed to fulfill the needs of Drupal ecommerce sites. For that, added functionality must be used. This means selecting and applying the right Drupal modules and customizing them to suit your site’s needs.
If you look at the available modules that can be used with the core Drupal application, you’ll see that there are more than 3300 modules available for use and website development. How, then, can you know what to choose and which applications are best suited for your particular flavor of ecommerce?
The only real way to be sure is to work with an expert Drupal designer who is familiar with the system, and capable of customizing the system by modifying the source application and its modules. And of course, it is imperative that that professional be able to do so without compromising the safety and security of your crucial information, or that of the visitors who are relying on you to protect them.
Drupal ecommerce adds a whole new dimension to Drupal design. As important as the safety, security, functionality and performance of Drupal ecommerce sites are, it is imperative to make sure that you work with Drupal experts who can deliver the product that will be all that you need it to be and more. Choosing Drupal designers carefully takes on a whole new level of importance when you enter into the realm of Drupal ecommerce. Do be sure that the designers and experts you choose have the knowledge, experience, and credentials behind them to deliver.
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Drupal ecommerce Paypal payments with IPN
December 20, 2009 · Posted in Drupal · 5 Comments
In this video you will see how to enable IPN with paypal and your Drupal CMS with ecommerce module enabled
Setup E-commerce Using Wordpress
Product Description
This CD contains a 5 video series that will take you by the hand and walk you step-by-step through the process of setting up your own website or membership site quickly and easily by using wordpress and the tools contained in this awesome CD. This CD contains 109 Bonus Wordpress themes you can use on your new blog. Also contains an IPN generator to help you setup your payment links with Paypal.
Ecommerce Store Application on iPhone & iPod Touch with DotNetNuke
November 28, 2009 · Posted in DotNetNuke · Comment
This is SalarOs Second video on DotNetNuke usability within the enormously successful iPhone & iPod mobile devices arena. It is predicted that by end of this year, there will be Approx 100 million ipod/iphone in operation around the world. We walk through the usability of a typical Store Application with this kind of devices. In this session I try and show you our iphone converted e-commerce shop and highlight the how DNN can be used to produce applications that look great on this device….
What is a good, secure and open-source Content Management System for an e-commerce website?
Is it Joomla? Plone? Drupal? etc? I really don’t know which to choose from… please help.
Also, make that FREE cms…
I am looking for a non-Virtuemart related eCommerce solution with Joomla. Does anyone know of one?
November 24, 2009 · Posted in Joomla · 2 Comments
I am running Joomla 1.5, and was trying to set up a store with Virtuemart. I don’t need all that many features, just the ability to display and sell products using Paypal and maybe one or two other similiar options. Does anyone have any knowledge of what would be best besides Virtuemart?
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