Django with its proven strengths is all you need to build powerful e-commerce applications with a competitive edge.
This book explores how the Django web framework and its related technologies can power the next leap forward for e-commerce and business on the Web. It shows you how to build real-world applications using this rapid and powerful development tool.
The book will enable you to build a high quality e-commerce site quickly and start making money. It starts with the ambitious task of using Django to build a functional e-commerce store in less than 30 minutes, and then proceeds to enhance this design through the rest of the book. The book covers the basics of an e-commerce platform like product catalogs, shopping carts, and payment processing. By the end of the book, you will be able to enhance the application by adding a fully-functional search engine, generating PDF-based reports, adding interactivity to the user-interface, selling digital goods with micropayments, and managing deployment and maintenance tasks.
What you will learn from this book
* Leverage Django's strengths to build powerful applications quickly
* Employ Django Models and Views to create a product catalog
* Build a flexible categorization system to organize products
* Create XML templates for selling products through the Google Checkout API
* Employ advanced Django techniques like class-based and generic views, pluggable resources, and reusable applications
* Simplify the development process using community projects like django-registration and django-profiles
* Create fully-featured search engines to index and categorize a product catalog
* Create integrations with leading web services and technologies like JSON, Salesforce, Amazon Aggregated Payments, and jQuery
* Explore advanced Django and Python design concepts like class-based generic views and pluggable backends
* Enhance your e-commerce site's UI with javascript-Django integration
* Utilize Django's storage backend to support content storage on Amazon S3
* Sell digital goods and media using Amazon's FPS micropayments service

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