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Mastering Magento 2

You're reading from   Mastering Magento 2 Maximize the power of Magento 2 to create productive online stores

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785882364
Length 340 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Bret Williams Bret Williams
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Jonathan Bownds Jonathan Bownds
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Andre Gugliotti Andre Gugliotti
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Planning for Magento FREE CHAPTER 2. Installing Magento 2 3. Managing Products 4. Designs and Themes 5. Configuring to Sell 6. Managing Non-Product Content 7. Marketing Tools 8. Extending Magento 9. Optimizing Magento 10. Advanced Techniques 11. Pre-Launch Checklist Index

Setting up Magento stores

As we discussed in Chapter 1, Planning for Magento, Magento leads the open source community in its ability to manage multiple websites and stores within a single installation. This is an often overlooked power of Magento. It is also one of the more complex configuration issues.

To help illustrate how to configure multiple stores in Magento, let's set up an example. As shown in the following table, we are going to build two online businesses, each with their own categories and products, and one with three Store Views. The following table shows the GWS relationship of this example:

Business focus

Types of product

Domain

Language

Sportswear

Apparel

www.AcmeSportswear.com

English

Sportswear

Apparel

www.AcmeSportswear.fr

French

Sportswear

Apparel

www.AcmeSportswear.de

German

Furniture

Furniture

www.AcmeFurniture.com

English

If these are your planned stores, your next decision is how to set up your websites. As we discussed in Chapter 1...

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