OFFICIAL GUIDE MIVA MERCHANT 4.X: . (Wordware Miva Library)

By Pamela Hazelton

If you are looking to set up shop on the web but are confused about where to start or are on a tight budget, your search stops here. Miva Merchant is the most affordable and customisable online store... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1556229232
• ISBN13: 9781556229237
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
• Length: 295 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.1" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

Have the two 1-star reviewers actually even opened the book?

Until I got this book, I spent many, many hours writing emails to my web host and to Miva -- all trying to figure out what I was supposed to do to get my web store going. I tried using Miva's documentation, but let's be honest here: there is a huge amount of documentation to sort through, and not enough hours in the day.I got this book after it was recommended to me by several Miva Merchant software developers in the Miva support groups. I've not been disappointed. I'm wearing out the binding from constant use. The edges look like the backside of a porcupine from all the Post-It tabs I've added while using it. I call it the "Miva Merchant Owner's Manual," and I firmly believe Miva should have included a copy of this book with their software! (hint, hint)This book doesn't attempt to teach Mivascript programming, and it isn't a Miva encyclopedia. What it IS, is a straightforward guide to setting up and running your Miva Merchant store. I only wish I had bought it to start with. All those wasted hours I'll never get back... don't make the same mistake I did -- buy this book BEFORE you start setting up your Miva Merchant store.

Excellent guide to for starters

As a merchant that has no interest in becoming a web guru or techie, I found this guide to be ideal in developing an online storefront and get selling fast.Those looking for advanced programming tips or highly complex instructions will be disappointed - this book is targeted to the store owner that wants to start selling ASAP. I recommed it highly for anyone that is looking to start or grow a business online.

Wish I had this book a year ago!

I looked long and hard before selecting Miva as my store software. It is the best system I found but for a beginner its not still not that simple. Then I found this book. I needed this book a year ago when I first set up my Miva Merchant Store! The manuals from Miva are good but you need to speak 'tech' to understand a lot of what they mean. With this book it was easy. It had me quickly changing my store configuration to what I always had wanted it to be. Each section simply explains how to get functions to work and it even has a guide to the basic HTML commands you need to give your store the look an feel you want. I even found a new way of looking at orders and printing them out that I had never seen with the online manuals. My store was eating up server disk space until this book told me how to delete and pack the customer data files. I retrieved 34Mb of wasted space on my server the first evening!The bottom line is if you have or are thinking of buying a Miva store package then cost this book into your budget. It will shave months off the learning curve and have you quickly operational with a good looking storefront.Problem is, now I have opened a whole new urge to reconfigure the whole store with my new found guide book!