Beginning Django E-Commerce

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.

Best Laid Plans.- Creating a Django Site.- Models for Sale.- The Shopping Cart.- Site Checkout & Orders.- Creating User Accounts.- Product Images.- Implementing Product Search.- Intelligent Cross-Selling.- Adding in Ajax.- Search Engine Optimization.- Web Security Overview.- Improving Performance.- Django Testing.- Deployment.- Django on Google App Engine.

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.