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Magento : Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

You're reading from  Magento : Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

Product type Book
Published in Jun 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782162704
Pages 320 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Magento Beginner's Guide Second Edition
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Installation 2. General Configuration 3. Categories and Attributes 4. Simple Products 5. Beyond Adding Simple Products 6. Customer Relationships 7. Accepting Payments 8. Configuring Shipping 9. Customizing Your Store's Appearance 10. Fulfilling Orders 11. Maintaining and Administrating Your Store Pop Quiz Answers Index

Managing Stores


Before we jump into the configuration part, it is good to know about the concept of Websites, Stores, and Store Views in Magento.

One of Magento's strong points is the possibility of adding multiple online stores within the same Magento installation. Using this, for example, you have the possibility of running multiple stores in several languages, offering the same (or a similar) set of products. These stores can even use the same settings if you'd like to, or only change those parameters that are important to be different. Magento uses the following naming convention, to set up a structure of online stores:

  • Website: This is the main level. A Website should contain at least one Store with one Store view underneath it. In the default setup, there is one Website, one Store, and one Store View as shown in the following screenshot:

  • Store: One level lower you'll find the Store. It's good to know that these three levels are just abstraction levels that you can use to organize your...

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