PacktLib: Magento: Beginner's Guide

Magento

Credits

About the author

About the reviewer

Preface

Introduction

The scope of this book

Time for action: Tour the demo store

Summary

Installation

System requirements

Installing Magento

Time for action: Downloading Magento

Time for action: Uploading Magento to your web host

Setting rights (permissions) for some of Magento's directories and files

About rights

Time for action: Setting the rights

Time for action : Creating a database and database user

Time for action: Pointing your browser to the Magento directory and stepping through the installation wizard

Check

Summary

Categories and Attributes

Categories, Products, and Attributes

Putting it together

Time for action: Creating Categories

Time for action: Creating Attributes

Time for action: Creating Attribute Sets

Summary

Taxes

Anatomy of a Tax Rule

Why create Tax Rules now?

Creating a Tax Rule

Time for action: Creating a Customer Tax Class

Time for action: Creating a Product Tax Class

Time for action: Creating a Tax Rate in Magento

Time for action: Exporting and importing Tax Rates

Time for action: Creating a Tax Rule

Summary

Adding Simple Products

Part 1: Adding the Product and assigning an Attribute Set

Time for action: Creating the Product and selecting an Attribute Set

Part 2: The General tab

Time for action: Filling the fields on the General tab

Part 3: The Prices tab

Time for action: Entering pricing for the Product

Part 4: The Meta Information tab

Time for action: Entering Meta information

Part 5: The Images tab

Time for action: Uploading images

Part 6: The Inventory tab

Time for action: Setting the global and Product inventory options

Part 7: The Categories tab

Time for action: Selecting Categories

Covered elsewhere: Promotions

Summing up

Summary

Minimum Customization of Your Store's Appearance

Our store so far

Customize the Layered Navigation Menu

Customize the Callouts

Time for action: Replacing the default graphic for a callout

Time for action: Replacing the alt text for the right callout

Time for action: Replacing the alt text and the link for the left callout

Time for action: Turning the page cache off

Disabling the Newsletter or Poll

Time for action: Disabling the Newsletter or Poll

Customize the welcome message

Using new themes

Time for action: Installing a theme

Changing your store's name

Time for action: Change your store's name

Summary

Beyond Simple Products

Related Products

Time for action: Adding related Product(s) to a Product

Grouped Products

Time for action: Creating a Blank Grouped Product

Time for action: Completing the General tab

Time for action: Completing the Meta Information tab

Time for action: Uploading images

Time for action: Completing the Inventory tab

Time for action: Assigning a Category

Time for action: Selecting Associated Products

Configurable Products

Time for action: Designating some Attributes as configurable

Time for action: Creating the first Simple Product that will be associated to the Configurable Product

Time for action: Duplicating the first Simple Product and creating other Products

Time for action: Creating a blank Configurable Product

Time for action: Associating the Simple Products to the Configurable Product

Tiered pricing

Summary

Customer Relationships

Configuring store email addresses

Time for action: Entering email addresses for your store

Configuring Contact Us

Time for action: Configuring the Contact Us form

Managing customers

Time for action: Configuring customer account options

Summary

Accepting Payment

Checkout and Sales configuration

Time for action: Configuring Checkout options

Time for action: Setting the Sales configuration

Time for action: Configuring Magento for your location and currency

An overview of the online payment process for credit cards

Payment methods in detail

Summary

Configure Shipping

Decisions you must make

Configuration settings and issues

Time for action: Setting the overall configuration settings that affect shipping

Time for action: Creating a shipping rate table

Time for action: Configuring and testing the shipping rates

Summary

Fulfilling an Order

The lifecycle of an order

Tips for managing orders

Practicing the complete order process

Time for action: Practice processing an order

Summary

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