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1 online resource (ix, 376 pages) : illustrations |
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From technologies to solutions |
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From technologies to solutions.
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Cover; Table of Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1: Chop and Cream the Basic Design; 1. Add Easy Top-Category Driven Stylesheets; Presentation; Ingredients; Cooking; 2. Create Flexible Column Definitions; Presentation; Ingredients; Cooking; Summary; Chapter 2: Serve them New Menus; 3. Show Active Subcategories only in Your Category Box; Presentation; Ingredients; Cooking; 4. Create Separate Boxes for Each Top Category; Presentation; Ingredients; Cooking; 5. Simplify Category Box Navigation by Defining Specific Colors for Each Level; Presentation; Ingredients; Cooking |
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6. Add Extra Links to Your Category BoxPresentation; Ingredients; Preparation; Summary; Chapter 3: Spice Up Your Infoboxes; 7. Move Your Infobox Header closer to Content; Presentation; Ingredients; Cooking; 8. Make Your Infobox Header Taller; Presentation; Ingredients; Cooking; 9. Add a Pop-Up Page from an Infobox Link; Presentation; Ingredients; Cooking; 10. Add Images to Infoboxes; Presentation; Ingredients; Cooking; Variation #1; Ingredients; Cooking; Variation #2; Ingredients; Cooking; 11. Add Extra Images to Your Columns without Framing Boxes; Presentation; Ingredients; Cooking |
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12. Hide or Show Boxes Driven by Language ChoicePresentation; Ingredients; Cooking; 13. Add Boxes Dedicated to Specified Countries; Presentation; Ingredients; Cooking; 14. Define Box-Image Size Independent of Product Thumbs; Presentation; Ingredients; Cooking; 15. Show Manufacturers' Logos in the Manufacturers Infobox; Presentation; Ingredients; Cooking; 16. Add Double Borders to Boxes with Background Matting; Presentation; Ingredients; Cooking; Summary; Chapter 4: Stuff Your Product Display; 17. Add Parent Category in Product Listing; Presentation; Ingredients; Cooking; Variation |
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18. Add Top Category in Product ListingPresentation; Ingredients; Cooking; 19. Add a Separator Line in Product Listing; Presentation; Ingredients; Cooking; 20. Add a Cell Background and an Image Border to Product Listing; Presentation; Ingredients; Cooking; 21. Sort Product Listing by Date Added; Presentation; Ingredients; Cooking; 22. Prepare a Quick 'n Easy Review System for Product Listing; Presentation; Ingredients; Cooking; 23. Whip Up a Top-Category Driven Product Listing; Presentation; Ingredients; Cooking; 24. Control Manufacturer Image Size; Presentation; Ingredients; Cooking |
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25. Call a Pop Up from Product Description in Product InfoPresentation; Ingredients; Cooking; 26. Call Unique Code for a Single Product in Product Info; Presentation; Ingredients; Cooking; 27. Show a Pop Up with Shipping Options in Product Info; Presentation; Ingredients; Cooking; 28. Add an Anchor for Options in Product Info; Presentation; Ingredients; Cooking; 29. Integrate Tell a Friend into Product Info; Presentation; Variation #1; Ingredients; Cooking; Variation #2; Ingredients; Cooking; 30. Offer an Ask a Question about a Product Link on Product Info; Presentation; Variation #1 |
| Summary |
In this unique book, osCommerce expert "Monika in Germany" lets you in on her secrets on how to hack your way to that perfect osCommerce site. This cookbook provides you with ready-made solutions for customizing your osCommerce installation and seasoning it with exciting new features. With a total of 69 recipes, this book helps you improve all important areas of your default installation. Written by an acknowledged osCommerce expert, the book not only gives you ready made solutions that you can easily incorporate into your system, but it also explains to you how these solutions work and shows you in detail how to implement them. This also helps you learn about the underlying API and later create your own variations to suit your very own taste. The focus of this book is not to teach osCommerce, but to give solutions to specific problems. For learning osCommerce, we suggest that you either read Building Online Stores with osCommerce: Professional Edition or Building Online Stores with osCommerce: Beginner Edition. This cookbook, however, can be a great companion for any of these books. osCommerce has been around since March 2000. At present there are over 10,000 live, registered osCommerce sites, and about 100,000 registered community members. Apart from providing ready-made solutions to problems, as well as a huge repository of information, the osCommerce community is a living entity with which we can all interact. With the rising success and popularity of this remarkable piece of software, things can only get better. The book has 11 chapters, each dealing with a different aspect of osCommerce. Chapter 1 equips you with a few very easy and very important changes to the basic design which will make developing and later modifying a whole new template a breeze. Chapter 2 will help you modify your navigation to ensure a smoother shopping experience for your customers. Chapter 3 covers infoboxes and turns you into an expert in tweaking them to your needs. Chapter 4 deals with one of the most important visual parts of your shop, the product display in the listings and the detail page. Chapter 5 outlines different methods to make searching on your site a fun experience. You want your customers to use your search and to find the products you want to sell to them. Chapter 6 highlights customizations of the checkout process, namely the flow from the shopping cart to the shipping and payment pages up to the order email. Chapter 7 talks about new sh .. |
| Notes |
Title from title screen |
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Includes index |
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Copyright © 2006 Packt Publishing 2006 |
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English |
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Electronic commerce.
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Business enterprises -- Computer networks.
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Internet marketing.
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Web sites -- Design.
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Web sites
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REFERENCE -- General.
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Electronic commerce.
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Business enterprises -- Computer networks.
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Internet marketing.
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Web sites -- Design.
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Business enterprises -- Computer networks
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Electronic commerce
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Internet marketing
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Web sites -- Design
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bruyndoncx, Carine.
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Ekleberry, Jim.
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Phillips, Karly.
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| ISBN |
9781847191274 |
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1847191274 |
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1281270830 |
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9781281270832 |
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9786611270834 |
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6611270833 |
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