Beginning Django E-Commerce will be the first book to guide 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 SEO 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.

What you'll learn

• Understand Django best practices for architecting a web site that will eventually be put into production.
• Leverage Django templates to maintain a consistent look and feel across your site.
• Learn SEO best practices with search engine–friendly URLs, metatags, and an autogenerated Google site map.
• Follow best practices for security so the bad guys don't get control of your site or compromise your data.
• Learn about developing and deploying your Python code on the Google App Engine.
• Construct an enterprise-level shopping cart application that can actually receive payments from Authorize.net and Paypal.