You want to get started in ecommerce and put a shop , two options are available:

1. You already have a business and want to expand your sales by starting your adventure Internet by posting some or all of your articles (about one hundred articles).
2. You do not have to trade, but you want to grow your revenue by creating a small online store, you can be inspired by the example of Tocoda example. In this case the first thing to do is to find the right idea. I suggest you to go for a ride on a very good site: Adsense Niche , full of all the more original ideas than other sites (such as: a site of activities for children or a site application marriage ...).

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We saw in a previous post how to install Magento on your Windows computer , let's see now how to install the test database.

To do this go to the page download the Magento site and click on the Download Sample Data.

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A new version of PrestaShop is out!
But no major changes are announced and no new function is Availablee. Indeed this new Release Candidate is mostly a corrected version of the previous (known dozens of solved problems).
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When designing your site online business , the visual appearance of your website is very important. This is the first impression that will make you want to or not your prospective buyer to continue on your site or go to your competitor.

We must take into account: the image quality, speed display, easy navigation through your site ... but the presentation of pictures of your product pages is also important. For example, to display a picture of an article on a black background when you click on it to enlarge it, can make it out and have a more pleasing appearance of the product.

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You have finished installing your store Prestashop and have started using it. To make it fully operational you will need to fill your product catalog.

For this two options available to you:

1. You can read our previous article on adding product to your PrestaShop store. But add the products one by one can be time consuming.
2. Use an interesting feature that allows you to import Prestashop in your product catalog, multiple items at once (or even hundreds) with a table CSV .

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We saw in our previous post , it was necessary to rework your photographs for fast loading of pages on your website to ecommerce and so navigation is more fluid. We also saw how to use the software Xnview to perform this operation.

We will even here, how rework your images for fast loading of your pages using the free software and free to use The Gimp. You can download an optimized version of Frenchified software (click on the download button).
After you download and install Gimp, we will get a PhotoLab utility, which allows you to make a set for resizing images: FileResize .

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

Now you must complete its product.
This trivial operation is more complex than it seems.

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

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