Hello Again !

It has been a long time I did not update this blog. Quite busy lately because of many client's online stores to be completed, and all are absolutely developed using prestashop. Prestashop current version, already at the latest version, 1.4.6. After this all blog posts are all on prestashop version 1.4.6. If you want updates direct to your email please fill in your email in the form on the right or you can subsribe by RSS Feed.

First Move - The Visual

Upon completion of the installation of your online store, the first thing you need to do is get a suitable template. There are paid and also templates that you can get for free. You have to install a template first because the position of modules is different and you need to ensure that you install an appropriate template for you online shop.

Here are some examples of free templates that you can use and the functional are 100%. Or you can get all the free templates straight to your email. What you need to do is enter your name and email in the form below.

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Prestashop Installation Part 2

Lets say that you already have a registered domain and hosting.
For example http://yourdomain.com is your registered domain.
In your browser go to your web url http://yourdomain.com and if everything is done right, you will see the following page

Prestashop Installation Part 1

Tips

Before launching or setup your online shop using Prestashop, you must have a hosting and a domain name. Now choose a good hosting provider carefully because this will then reflect your online shop performance and service.

Nowadays there are many hosting provider offering different plans and such very attractive especially during some occasions ( Christmas, independence day, etc.). You should at least pick a 1GB or 5GB of web space because your online shop will grow bigger and attract more visitors.

I personally recommend TMD Hosting. They offer Free Domain forever, Softaculous Autoinstaller (very easy Prestashop installer), Unlimited space & unlimited bandwidth.

Pre-Installation Check List

1. Have your Prestashop script ready. Download latest release here > www.prestashop.com . This don't require if you install using Softaculous. Later I will add tutorial on how to install using Softaculous.
2. Extract the package locally on your computer, anywhere that you can easily retrieve.
3. Upload the script to your hosting site via FTP Client. I recommend Filezilla ( Download Here ). Upload to your favor directory, usually to your root/public_html directory. If you have a blog or web-page as the root directory, you can create other directory (shop, mymall, etc) and upload it there.
4. Then create a database that will store your shop data in it. Please remember user name and password as we will use it in our shop installation.

System Requirements

Before you operate online stores, there are some things you should know.
Please check with your hosting service is the components below are available and installed on your server space.

• Linux, Unix, or Windows
• Apache Web server
• PHP 5.0 or later.
• MySQL 4.1.14 or later

These are some basic things to have on your hosting service (for hosted installation).

If you want to install to your own PC first, you can just download and install XAMPP or WAMPP. All the components needed are bundled inside those in-house web servers softwares.

In this tutorial, we will learn how to install and update PrestaShop using hosted server.