Wednesday, November 30, -001 | News | Open Source
Packt Publishing is pleased to announce details of two new books on osCommerce, the leading Open Source online e-commerce shop solution. Professional and beginning editions of �Building Online Stores with osCommerce� will be released towards the end of 2005, targeting the two different levels of user.
osCommerce offers a wide range of out-of-the-box features that allows online stores to be setup fairly quickly with ease, and is available for free as an Open Source based solution released under the GNU General Public License.
Building Online Stores with osCommerce: Beginner Edition will teach you how to build and maintain a working e-commerce Website using osCommerce. You will learn all the information required to set up, modify and maintain your own online store. As you become serious with osCommerce, the Professional Edition will show you how to make the most of osCommerce's Open Source development process and community. You will see how to use the community as an excellent resource for developing your business strategies and practices, as well as making it easy to continuously enhance your customers' shopping experience.
At all times, the coverage given in these books pays homage to the fact that, ultimately, the reader has a business goal in mind. To this end, the material never gets bogged down in technical issues or long discourses, but rather focuses on what is practically important for the online business and then moves on. To complement this, there are plenty of suggestions and hints as to how and where to look for further information.
Building Online Stores with osCommerce: Professional Edition, will be released in November, for more information, please visit: www.packtpub.com/professional_oscommerce/book
Building Online Stores with osCommerce: Beginner Edition will be released in December, for more information, please visit: www.packtpub.com/beginning_oscommerce/book
