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A practical guide to crafting elegant, intuitive, and customer-friendly websites to deliver a high-quality user experience using the powerful features of the Odoo website builder

Key Features

  • Understand website creation using the Odoo website builder and learn how to make the most of it
  • Extend your website by configuring the additional tools and functional options
  • Learn about manageability and real-time functioning of the website using various operational tools

Book Description

The Odoo website builder is an operational tool in the Odoo platform that allows you to design, develop, and manage a website. This book introduces and explains all the features of the Odoo website builder that will help you to be more productive while creating websites.

The book starts with an overview of the Odoo website builder, its functionalities, and the tools it offers. Using descriptive illustrations and practical examples, you'll gain detailed insights into the block operations of the Odoo website builder and learn how to work with structure blocks, features blocks, and dynamic content blocks. As you advance, you'll discover how to use the HTML, CSS, or JS editor in Odoo website builder applications for customization. This Odoo book will take you through the different aspects of website building and show you how e-commerce websites can be designed and developed using website builder applications. You'll build a website, manage it, and run a discussion forum in Odoo using the website builder, and apply your knowledge to add a live chat tool that can be incorporated into your website using the Odoo website builder.

By the end of this book, you'll have gained a solid understanding of the Odoo website builder and be able to leverage its features to develop your own website.

What you will learn

  • Find out how to implement structure blocks while developing a website
  • Work with dynamic content blocks and inner content blocks in the Odoo website builder
  • Use an HTML, CSS, or JS editor in the Odoo website builder to customize applications
  • Create and design a blog with the Odoo website builder
  • Build a fully functional e-commerce website and a discussion forum using the Odoo website builder
  • Track visitors on the website and understand the live chat tool and its functionality

Who this book is for

This book is for Odoo users, functional consultants, techno-functional consultants, web designers, and anyone looking to create impressive websites. Odoo developers will also find the book useful for building their website for the end user. Basic functional knowledge of Odoo is all that you need to get started with this book.

Table of Contents

  1. Designing Professional Websites with Odoo Website Builder
  2. Contributors
  3. About the author
  4. About the reviewer
  5. Credits
  6. Preface
    1. Who this book is for
    2. What this book covers
    3. To get the most out of this book
    4. Download the color images
    5. Conventions used
    6. Get in touch
    7. Reviews
  7. Section 1: An Overview
  8. Chapter 1: Introduction to Odoo and Its Website Builder
    1. An introduction to websites
    2. An overview of Odoo and its operational aspects
    3. The Odoo community
    4. Odoo apps
    5. Editions of Odoo
    6. Odoo customization
    7. Odoo hosting
    8. Key features of Odoo ERP
    9. The benefits of using Odoo
    10. An overview of the Odoo website builder
    11. Clearing up certain misconceptions
    12. The features and operational capabilities of the Odoo website builder
    13. Additional benefits of the Odoo website builder
    14. The salient features of the Odoo website builder
    15. Summary
    16. Questions
    17. Further reading
  9. Chapter 2: The Website Builder in Action
    1. Creating a new web page
    2. Configuring a website
    3. Managing pages
    4. Creating a new page
    5. Overview of pages
    6. Theme editor
    7. Working with the theme preview
    8. Odoo themes
    9. Summary
    10. Questions
    11. Further reading
  10. Section 2: Website Builder in Depth
  11. Chapter 3: An Introduction to Blocks
    1. Technical requirements
    2. Understanding what blocks are in Odoo website building
    3. Structure blocks
    4. Types of blocks
    5. Banner block
    6. The style editing tools within blocks
    7. Editing options
    8. Website settings
    9. Cover block
    10. Text - Image block
    11. Image - Text block
    12. Title block
    13. Text block
    14. Numbers block
    15. Picture block
    16. Columns block
    17. Big Boxes block
    18. Features block
    19. Masonry block
    20. Image Gallery block
    21. Image Wall block
    22. Carousel block
    23. Media List block
    24. Showcase block
    25. Parallax block
    26. Summary
    27. Questions
    28. Further reading
  12. Chapter 4: Design Using Features Blocks
    1. Technical requirements
    2. Exploring features blocks
    3. Understanding types of features blocks
    4. Types of features blocks
    5. Comparison block
    6. Team block
    7. Call to action block
    8. References block
    9. Accordion block
    10. Features grid block
    11. Table of Content block
    12. Pricelist block
    13. Items block
    14. Tabs block
    15. Timeline block
    16. Steps block
    17. Quotes block
    18. Summary
    19. Questions
    20. Further reading
  13. Chapter 5: Designing a Website using Dynamic Content
    1. Technical requirements
    2. Introducing Dynamic Content blocks
    3. Exploring the types of Dynamic Content block
    4. Form block
    5. Google Map block
    6. Dynamic Products block
    7. Products Search block
    8. Blog Posts block
    9. Events block
    10. Newsletter Block
    11. Newsletter Popup block
    12. Popup block
    13. Countdown block
    14. Discussion Group block
    15. Twitter Scroller block
    16. Summary
    17. Questions
  14. Chapter 6: Inner Content Block Tools
    1. Technical requirements
    2. Understanding Inner Content blocks
    3. Exploring the types of inner content blocks
    4. Separator block
    5. Alert block
    6. Rating block
    7. Card block
    8. Share block
    9. Product Search block
    10. Newsletter block
    11. Text highlight block
    12. Chart block
    13. Progress Bar block
    14. Badge block
    15. Blockquote block
    16. Speaker Bio block
    17. Summary
    18. Questions
    19. Further reading 
  15. Chapter 7: HTML/CSS/JS Editor
    1. Technical requirements
    2. Introducing HTML/CSS/JS Editor
    3. HTML
    4. CSS
    5. JS
    6. Using HTML/CSS/JS Editor
    7. Setting product name tag alignment
    8. Background colors for web pages
    9. Color for the background and product block
    10. Providing a banner for the web page
    11. Contact us page validation
    12. Hover zoom on the product block
    13. Summary
    14. Questions
    15. Further reading
  16. Section 3: Practical Tools
  17. Chapter 8: Creating Your Own Blog Pages
    1. Technical requirements
    2. Creating a new blog
    3. Designing blog content
    4. Blog page customization options
    5. Understanding the use and importance of tags
    6. Tag categories
    7. SEO management
    8. Summary
    9. Questions
    10. Further reading
  18. Chapter 9: Go Live with Your E-Commerce Website
    1. Technical requirements
    2. Adding a product to an e-commerce website
    3. Ribbons
    4. Functional options on an e-commerce web page
    5. Designing your e-commerce page
    6. Style options
    7. Configurable options
    8. Inputs options
    9. Blocks on your e-commerce page
    10. The Structure block
    11. The Features block
    12. Dynamic Content
    13. The Inner Content block
    14. Adding a carousel to your e-commerce page
    15. The Carousel block in the product description window
    16. Creating a separate page for product categories
    17. Adding a product category page to the website
    18. Configuring different payment acquirers for customer payments
    19. Summary
    20. Questions
    21. Further reading
  19. Chapter 10: A Discussion Forum for Your Clients
    1. Technical requirements
    2. Creating a forum
    3. Designing a forum
    4. Managing forum questions and answers
    5. Summary
    6. Questions
    7. Further reading
  20. Chapter 11: Tracking Your Website with Odoo
    1. Technical requirements
    2. Website tracking – an intuitive feature
    3. Tracking your website visitors in Odoo
    4. Website tracking using Google Analytics in Odoo
    5. Website tracking using the Link Tracker option
    6. Summary
    7. Questions
  21. Chapter 12: Drafting a Contact Page
    1. Technical requirements
    2. Creating a new contact form
    3. Lead generation using a contact form
    4. Other actions for the Contact us page
    5. Designing the form
    6. Summary
    7. Questions
    8. Further reading
  22. Chapter 13: Communicating with Live Chat
    1. Technical requirements
    2. Adding live chat to the Odoo website
    3. Multiple channels for multiple websites
    4. Managing incoming chat
    5. Assigning chats to your employee
    6. Summary
    7. Questions
    8. Further reading
    9. Answers
    10. Conclusive overview
    11. References
  23. Assessments
    1. Chapter 1: Introduction to Odoo and its Website Builder
    2. Chapter 2: The Website Builder in Action
    3. Chapter 3: Introduction to Blocks – Structure Blocks
    4. Chapter 4: Design Using Features Blocks
    5. Chapter 5: Designing Websites Using Dynamic Content
    6. Chapter 6: Inner Content Block Tools
    7. Chapter 7: Using the HTML/CSS/JavaScript Editors
    8. Chapter 8: Creating Your Own Blog Pages
    9. Chapter 9: Go Live with Your E-Commerce Website
    10. Chapter 10: A Discussion Forum for Your Clients
    11. Chapter 11: Tracking Your Website with Odoo
    12. Chapter 12: Drafting a Contact Page
    13. Chapter 13: Communicating with Live Chat
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