A recent publication of the association Acsel , Europe would possess a potential of 200 million online shoppers, while in 2007 it had only 107 million buyers for a turnover of 106 billion.

One might ask how is the market of e-commerce in the hexagon, after the bad times that the country faces in terms of consumption. But surprisingly, according FEVAD the first half of 2008 the sector would have grown by around 30%! A continuing growth in the second quarter (31%).

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We have seen in a previous post how to optimize your photos with XnView or Gimp for them to appear soon in your site e-commerce .
We shall now see how to integrate them into a product of Prestashop .

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A new version of Prestashop is out!
But no major change is announced and no new function is disponiblee. Indeed the new Release Candidate is mainly a corrected version of the previous (known dozens of solved problems).
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We saw in our previous post , it was necessary to rework your photographs to get a quick loading of pages on your site ecommerce and thus navigation is more fluid. We also saw how to use the software to do this Xnview.

So we will even here, how rework your images to have a quick loading of your pages by using the free and free to use: Gimp. You can download a version optimized and Frenchified software (click download).
Having downloaded and installed Gimp, we will get a PhotoLabo utility, which allows for resizing for a set of images: FileResize .

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Your online store is installed (if this is not the case: you can read our article about installing Prestashop )

Now you need to fill its product catalog.
This operation is more complex innocuous than it seems.

Indeed, you must find the right keywords to define items to add in your ecommerce . Then write a summary that will entice your customer to click on your product, when seen on a search engine.

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Step 1: Preparing images for integration into your shop for ecommerce

We saw in our previous post: How to optimize photos for your ecommerce product info
the need to rework your photos for fast loading of pages and so navigation on your site is more fluid.

Indeed, although now most users have ADSL, it is impossible for one of your prospective buyers to wait several seconds before displaying a page of your site and I'm not talking about your clients n 'having no ADSL!

We will see how to rework your images to have a quick loading of your pages using a great product developed by Pierre-Emmanuel Gougelet: Xnview you can download here . This product is free for non-commercial use, otherwise it will cost € 26 (the date of this post). Read the rest of this article

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One of the tedious work when you design a site to ecommerce is that for the same photo of a product you must resize it and decline in different sizes. The software will then use that size of photo to display thumbnail, another for the large display.

We will see in the different notes on this subject, how to optimize the insertion of a picture in your ecommerce software and we will compare the advantages and disadvantage in Prestashop and Magento .

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