Professional Online Store Design

Learn to Create a Professional Online Store on WooCommerce

Building & Managing E-Commerce Stores4.8(86)6h 5m42 lectures10 sections

What you'll learn

  • Design your first WordPress site
  • Book the domain and hosting and create a professional email
  • Set up WordPress and WooCommerce settings
  • Set up taxes, shipping and payment methods
  • Add products of different types
  • Apply strategies to increase sales
  • Design pages with Elementor
  • Edit the shop, cart and checkout pages
  • Install security, speed and SEO plugins

About this course

This course teaches professional online store design on WordPress using WooCommerce and Elementor, from scratch to managing products. It starts with an introduction and designing your first WordPress site, types of hosting, booking the domain and hosting, creating a professional email with your site name, and moving from one host to another and connecting the domain. Next you set up the general WordPress and WooCommerce settings, product settings, taxes, shipping, payment methods, emails and privacy. Then you add product categories and simple, digital, variable and grouped products, and learn strategies to increase sales. After that you design pages with Elementor, format the header, footer, menus, shop page, cart and checkout, add WP-Forms forms, security, speed and SEO plugins, and make the site multi-currency. The course suits anyone who wants to open an online shop or design selling websites. No previous experience is needed. By the end, you will be able to build a complete store, add products and manage them.

Expected outcomes

  • Create a complete and ready-to-work online store.
  • Add products and design custom pages easily.
  • Enhance user experience and increase sales using advanced strategies.
  • Understand performance and security optimization tools for your store.

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  • ★★★★★Mostafa A.·منذ 1 شهرشاهد 54٪

    الشرح ممتاز، ويمشي معاك خطوة خطوة لحد ما توقف الموقع على أرض ثابته

  • ★★★★★Ahmed M.·منذ 3 شهرشاهد 100٪
  • ★★★★★wafaa A.·منذ 3 شهرشاهد 100٪

    اكتر من ممتاز

  • ★★★★★Ahmed s.·منذ 4 شهرشاهد 71٪

    محتوى ممتاز أستفادت منه كتير

  • ★★★★★أحمد م.·منذ 4 شهرشاهد 100٪

    كووووووووووووووووووووورس رائع

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Course content

1

Lecture 1

4 lectures
  1. IntroductionExplains why a store needs its own website, compares building from scratch, ready-made platforms and WordPress as a content management system with plugins, and covers the need for a domain name and hosting.5:41
  2. Different Types of Web HostingExplains hosting types, mainly shared and dedicated, how they differ in cost and resources, and why shared hosting is enough at the start before upgrading when visitor numbers grow.12:56
  3. Booking a Domain Name and Web HostingWalks through booking a domain name and hosting together: choosing the extension, the SSL certificate and why it matters for e-commerce, domain privacy, unnecessary add-ons, then payment and account creation.7:32
  4. Creating a Professional Email with the Domain NameExplains creating a professional email address on the site's domain from the hosting panel, setting the username and password, allocating storage for each mailbox, and creating several email accounts.2:49
2

Lecture 2

3 lectures
  1. Designing Your First WordPress SiteShows how to create a first website on the hosting account using the simple beginner wizard: choosing the business type, site name, header and footer style, contact details and social links, then changing images.9:34
  2. Migrating from One Host to Another and Linking a Domain from One Company to AnotherExplains migrating a site from one host to another and connecting a domain registered with one company to hosting at another, by changing the DNS nameservers to those of the hosting provider.7:41
  3. Adding an E-commerce Template and Installing WooCommerce and Elementor PluginsExplains creating a new WordPress site from the hosting account, choosing an online store as the site type, deactivating the default plugins, and starting from a clean site before adding the store theme and the WooCommerce and Elementor plugins.29:42
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Lecture 3

5 lectures
  1. Adjusting Site Settings from the HostCovers the Bluehost hosting settings for a site, including caching, scanning WordPress core files to fix errors, closing comments on old posts, the trash, the Coming Soon page and SSH access.19:56
  2. Adjusting General WordPress SettingsExplains the difference between WordPress settings and WooCommerce settings, then the general settings: site title, tagline, email, preventing open registration, site language, time zone and date format.6:50
  3. Adding Users and Defining PermissionsExplains adding users to WordPress and setting their permissions, the difference between Administrator and Editor roles, testing a login with a new account, and editing or deleting a user and reassigning their content.4:23
  4. Adjusting General WooCommerce SettingsExplains WooCommerce general settings: store address, the countries it sells to, enabling taxes and coupons, choosing the currency and its symbol position, and the thousand and decimal separators.11:18
  5. Adjusting Product SettingsExplains WooCommerce product settings: choosing the shop page, redirecting to the cart after adding, the Ajax add-to-cart button, the placeholder image, weight and dimension units, and review and star rating options.9:07
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Lecture 4

4 lectures
  1. Tax settingsExplains tax settings in WooCommerce: tax classes and assigning them to products, whether tax applies to shipping, calculating by the customer's shipping address, and VAT versus sales tax by country.17:43
  2. Shipping settingsExplains WooCommerce shipping setup: shipping zones such as Egypt and Kuwait, flat rate, free shipping with a minimum order or coupon, tax on shipping, and shipping classes that price products by quantity.17:54
  3. Basic Payments methods settingsExplains setting up basic payment methods: cash on delivery limited to a specific shipping zone such as Egypt, bank transfer with account details, and how payment options appear by country, before adding cards and PayPal later.4:05
  4. Email and privacy settingsExplains WooCommerce account and privacy settings, such as allowing purchase without an account and removing inactive accounts, then email settings including customizing their colors and adding the logo.6:46
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Lecture 5

8 lectures
  1. GeoLocation and Advanced settingsExplains using MaxMind with a license key to detect the customer's country and city automatically for shipping and tax calculation, then adjusting advanced settings such as the cart, checkout, account and terms pages.6:42
  2. Configure the site to receive products and cancel default productsExplains preparing the store before adding products: deleting the default categories, attributes and products, showing all products on one page to delete them at once, then emptying the trash permanently.4:55
  3. Categories, Tags and AttributesExplains adding product categories and subcategories, tags and attributes such as colors, why product images should share the same size, and setting SEO options for each category.14:55
  4. Simple productsExplains adding a first simple product: name and long description, the SKU, stock management, shipping settings, the product image, the short description, and previewing the product in the store.11:56
  5. Virtual and downloadable productsExplains virtual products such as services that need no shipping, and downloadable products, including setting up the download file, the download limit and the expiry period after purchase.3:01
  6. Variable productsExplains adding a variable product such as a jacket in different colors and sizes, creating attributes and variations, and setting a price, image and stock for each variation.7:13
  7. Grouped productsExplains how to add a grouped product (a bundle or offer) made of several products in set quantities, and an external product linking to another store via affiliate links, and how affiliate differs from dropshipping.6:17
  8. Cross-selling and upsellingExplains upselling and cross-selling to raise sale value: suggesting a better, higher-spec product or complementary items to the one bought, how to set both up in the store, and how they differ from bundles.5:38
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Lecture 6

6 lectures
  1. Add pages and change URL creation method5:54
  2. Elementor LibraryExplains working with Elementor to edit pages: enabling editing with it, the page structure, adding sections and columns, ready-made templates, Starter Templates and blocks, and saving favorites.7:54
  3. Sections/Columns/WidgetsExplains dividing an Elementor page into sections, columns and widgets, adding, deleting or duplicating columns, and placing widgets such as an image, heading, button, video and map inside each column.4:40
  4. ContentExplains the Content tab of Elementor elements, such as changing an image, aligning it and adding a caption and link, setting a button's text, type and link, and saving an element or whole page as a reusable template.7:19
  5. StyleExplains the Style tab in Elementor: setting maximum width per device (desktop, tablet and mobile), hover animation effects, the border, its color and shadow, and styling the caption under an image.8:04
  6. Advanced Page Element ControlExplains the Advanced tab in Elementor: outer margin and inner padding, element backgrounds as a color, gradient or image, borders, hover effects, and adding a button under an image.15:15
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Lecture 7

3 lectures
  1. Header & FooterExplains formatting the header and footer: arranging the logo, menu and cart, adding or removing elements, social media and search icons, and splitting the footer into columns with content placement.14:27
  2. Creating MenusExplains creating menus in WordPress: deleting the default menus, adding pages, categories and tags, building submenus by dragging items, and creating extra menus to show in the footer.9:38
  3. Widgets AreasExplains working with widget areas to edit the footer columns, removing the default content, adding a men's products menu and a women's products menu, and fixing one menu that did not show up.5:17
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Lecture 8

5 lectures
  1. Modifying the Overall Structure of Site PagesExplains changing the overall layout of store pages such as the products page and single product page, and placing the sidebar on the left, on the right or removing it from the customization settings.4:24
  2. Adding Elements to the SidebarExplains adding widgets to the sidebar of the main products page and the single product page, removing some, and adding others such as filters and the shopping cart.3:36
  3. Editing the Store PageExplains editing the store page: what the catalog displays, product ordering, the number of columns per row, the add-to-cart button behavior, hiding the breadcrumb, and setting the product image aspect ratio.7:06
  4. Editing the Cart and Checkout PagesExplains editing the cart and checkout pages: hiding fields such as company name and address line two or making them required, and choosing the privacy policy and terms pages and linking them in the agreement text.2:22
  5. Creating Data Entry Forms with WP-FormsExplains building data entry forms with the WPForms Lite plugin: adding fields such as name, numbers and choices, setting the email notification sent to the site owner, and the confirmation message after submission.9:37
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Lecture 9

3 lectures
  1. Security and SpeedUp PluginsCovers WordPress speed and security plugins: testing speed with GTmetrix, WP Super Cache for caching, an image compression plugin that keeps quality, and a security plugin that scans the site.11:25
  2. Sitmap & SEO PluginsCovers two SEO plugins: an XML Sitemap plugin so Google can index the pages, and Yoast SEO for setting the keyword, description, internal and external links and image text.11:17
  3. Multi CurrencyCovers the Multi Currency plugin for showing product prices in more than one currency, such as dollars and Egyptian pounds, setting the default currency, using an automatic or fixed exchange rate, and switching currency on the site.2:21
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Add-ons

1 attachments
  1. Product Images

Instructor

Ahmed Hassan Khamis

Ahmed Hassan Khamis

He has developed computer science curricula for various Arab universities and taught at Alexandria University. He has authored over 120 educational books in computer science.
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