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Beginning Django E-Commerce

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Authors:
  1. Jim McGaw
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  • The only book describing everything you need to build an e-Commerce site using Django

  • Django is the most popular python web development framework, and has been endorsed by Python creator Guido van Rossum

  • Includes topics such as how to make a shopping cart, a checkout, and a payment processor

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. Best Laid Plans

    • Jim McGaw
    Pages 1-16

  3. Creating a Django Site

    • Jim McGaw
    Pages 17-38

  4. Models for Sale

    • Jim McGaw
    Pages 39-78

  5. The Shopping Cart

    • Jim McGaw
    Pages 79-108

  6. Site Checkout & Orders

    • Jim McGaw
    Pages 109-151

  7. Creating User Accounts

    • Jim McGaw
    Pages 153-171

  8. Product Images

    • Jim McGaw
    Pages 173-178

  9. Implementing Product Search

    • Jim McGaw
    Pages 179-192

  10. Intelligent Cross-Selling

    • Jim McGaw
    Pages 193-204

  11. Adding in Ajax

    • Jim McGaw
    Pages 205-229

  12. Search Engine Optimization

    • Jim McGaw
    Pages 231-254

  13. Web Security Overview

    • Jim McGaw
    Pages 255-278

  14. Improving Performance

    • Jim McGaw
    Pages 279-297

  15. Django Testing

    • Jim McGaw
    Pages 299-321

  16. Deployment

    • Jim McGaw
    Pages 323-339

  17. Django on Google App Engine

    • Jim McGaw
    Pages 341-364

  18. Back Matter

    Pages 365-384
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About this book

Beginning Django E-Commerce guides you through producing an e-commerce site using Django, the most popular Python web development framework. Topics covered include how to make a shopping cart, a checkout, and a payment processor; how to make the most of Ajax; and search engine optimization best practices. Throughout the book, you'll take each topic and apply it to build a single example site, and all the while you'll learn the theory behind what you're architecting.

  • Build a fully functional e-commerce site.
  • Learn to architect your site properly to survive in an increasingly competitive online landscape with good search engine optimization techniques.
  • Become versed in the Django web framework and learn how you can put it to use to drastically reduce the amount of work you need to do to get a site up and running quickly.

About the author

Jim McGaw is a web developer with several years of experience developing enterprise-level web applications, particularly online catalog and shopping cart sites. Jim believes that anything worth doing is worth doing right, and since there is often more than one way to do something, he works very hard to make sure that he does it correctly. He relishes the opportunity to work with technology on a daily basis, and he especially enjoys enlightening others about the latest web trends, like front-end engineering and Ajax, as well as the other nuances of his craft.

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