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How to Create Selling E-Commerce Websites

admin — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 15:56:13 +0000

How to Create Selling E-Commerce Websites

This e-book steps you through the preparation of your e-commerce projects, showing you what it takes to present merchandise as beautifully and convincingly, and how to run valid and successful A/B and multivariate testing of various designs.

The articles are a selection of the best from Smashing Magazine in 2009 and 2010 dealing with creating e-commerce websites. They have been carefully edited and prepared as a PDF version and versions for ePub and Mobipocket compatible e-book readers, such as the Apple iPad and Amazon Kindle. Some screenshots and links were removed in order to make the book easier to read and to print.[ad code=3 align=center]

We have put this book together to give you all the information you need for successful e-commerce websites in one fell swoop. Enjoy and good luck with your work!

Table of Contents
In more than 260 pages, you will read articles about:

Getting Started With E-Commerce
5 Universal Principles For Successful E-Commerce-Sites
12 Tips for Designing an Excellent Checkout Process
How to Engage Customers in Your E-Commerce Website[ad code=1 align=center]
Principles of Effective Search in E-Commerce Design
15 Common Mistakes in E-Commerce Design
E-Commerce: Fundamentals of a Successful Re-Design
Improve Your E-Commerce Design With Brilliant Product Photos
How To Use Photos To Sell More Online
Design To Sell: 8 Useful Tips To Help Your Website Convert
7 More Useful Tips To Help Your Site Convert
Optimizing Conversion Rates: Less Effort, More Customers
Optimizing Conversion Rates: It’s All About Usability
Use Conversions To Generate More Conversions
The Ultimate Guide To A/B Testing
Multivariate Testing: 5 Simple Steps to Increase Conversion Rates

The authors are: Rachel Andrew, Cameron Chapman, James Chudley, Paras Chopra, Peter Crawfurd, Dmitry Fadeyev, Jeffrey Olson, András Rung and Frank Puscher

http://www.filesonic.com/file/287158751/Smashing.How.to.Create.Selling.E-Commerce.Websites.Dec.2010.rar

Magento: Beginner’s Guide

admin — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 16:00:43 +0000

Magento-Beginners-Guide

Magento is the world’s most evolved e-commerce solution. It runs on the Apache/MySQL/PHP platform. From one installation, you can control multiple storefronts, all sharing customer and product information. Magento’s templates and themes enable you to customize the look and feel of your store, even optimizing it for mobile phones. Extensions enable you to connect Magento to a large number of payment gateways and shipping services. Modular code enables you to upgrade your Magento installation while retaining your customizations. Support is provided free by an active open source community and by subscription to Varien, the company behind Magento.

Magento is one of the most exciting, flexible, and customizable e-commerce systems. It offers you an extensive suite of powerful tools for creating and managing an online store. As your online store grows, you can be sure that this robust e-commerce system can handle your needs. However, getting started with Magento can be difficult without the right guidance.[ad code=1 align=center]

This book provides that guidance in the form of a step-by-step approach to building a simple, effective online store. The book covers the key features of Magento that will help you get your store up and running. It guides you through installation, configuration, populating your store with products, accepting payments, maintaining relationships with your customers, and fulfilling orders.

When you create an online store with Magento, you usually follow a defined series of steps. This book is arranged to support that process. Each chapter shows you how to get the most from one step.

You will learn to customize the default Magento storefront so that it becomes your store and also about Magento’s directory structure and where some of the elements of a store are customized. This experience will help you if you decide to go beyond this book and install new themes or create your own themes.[ad code=3 align=center]

As you work your way through each chapter, your store will grow in scope and sophistication. By the time you finish this book, you should have a basic but complete, working online store.

What you will learn from this 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
Approach
This book will provide you with step-by-step instructions for installing, configuring, and using Magento to run your own e-commerce site. We will set up an example store in the book with enough information to adapt the instructions according to your needs.

Who this book is written for?
This book is for anyone who wants to create an online store using Magento. If you are a non-technical person and are discouraged by the complexity of this powerful e-commerce application, this book is ideal for you.

http://hotfile.com/dl/103863239/988c307/Packtpub.Magento.Beginners.Guide.Mar.2009.zip

Effortless E-Commerce with PHP and MySQL

admin — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 01:19:19 +0000

Effortless E-Commerce with PHP and MySQL

In this comprehensive guide to creating an e-commerce Web site using PHP and MySQL, renowned author Larry Ullman walks you through every step—designing the visual interface, creating the database, presenting content, generating an online catalog, managing the shopping cart, handling the order and the payment process, and fulfilling the order—always with security and best practices emphasized along the way. Even if you’re an experienced Web developer, you’re guaranteed to learn something new. The book uses two e-commerce site examples—one based on selling physical products that require shipping and delayed payment, and another that sells non-physical products to be purchased and delivered instantly—so you see the widest possible range of e-commerce scenarios. In 11 engaging, easy-to-follow chapters, Effortless E-Commerce with PHP and MySQL teaches you how to:

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• Think of the customer first, in order to maximize sales
• Create a safe server environment and database
• Use secure transactions and prevent common vulnerabilities
• Incorporate different payment gateways
• Design scalable sites that are easy to maintain
• Build administrative interfaces
• Extend both examples to match the needs of your own sites

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About the Author
Larry Ullman is the president of Digital Media and Communications Insights, Inc., a firm specializing in information technology (www.dmcinsights.com). He is the author of several bestselling programming and Web development books, including PHP and MySQL for Dynamic Web Sites: Visual QuickPro Guide. Larry also writes articles on these subjects and teaches them in small and large group settings. Despite working with computers, programming languages, databases, and such since the early 1980s, Larry still claims he’s not a computer geek (but he admits he can speak their language).

http://hotfile.com/dl/87242440/2e8c6d3/New.Riders.Effortless.E-Commerce.with.PHP.and.MySQL.Nov.2010.rar.html

E-commerce Web Design Turn Your Website Into Profit: E-commerce Guide to Success

admin — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 06:32:34 +0000

E-commerce Web Design Turn Your Website Into Profit

When it comes to e-commerce, your first thought is Amazon or Zappos where you can purchase books or a great pair of shoes. Electronic commerce is when buying and selling of products or services happens over the Internet or other computer networks. Amazon and Zappos are just two of the wellknown sites where business-to-consumer transactions occur. However, there are many of other exchanges online for business-to-business commodity exchanges, and almost all large retailers now

have an electronic presence online. In the 1970’s, businesses used an Electronic Data Interchange technology to send purchase orders and invoices electronically. This began what is now known as online shopping, an industry relied on heavily for manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers and businesses combined. In 2008, manufacturers alone accounted for $2,154 billion of total e-commerce shipments (U.S. Department of Commerce).

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This same report shows that from 2002 to 2008, retail e-sales increased at an average annual growth rate of 21% compared with 4% for total retail sales. Purchasing products online from manufacturers to brick and mortar stores is here to stay.

Whether you are starting an e-commerce site to compliment your brick and mortar store, or you a restrictly an online company there are many factors you need to consider before you are up and running. There are laws and regulations you need to adhere to, as well as safety precautions to keep your customers safe from security fraud. This buyer guide will outline the ins and outs of the e-commerce world, and help you figure out where to get started.

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Buyers Guide to E-commerce

1. Introduction

2. E-Commerce Terms

3. Rules and Regulations

4. Securing your Website

5. Online Shopping Carts

6. Helpful Features

Download Ebook here

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