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Building E-commerce Sites with VirtueMart Cookbook

By : John Horton
Book Image

Building E-commerce Sites with VirtueMart Cookbook

By: John Horton

Overview of this book

VirtueMart is a premier eCommerce solution powered by Joomla!In Building E-commerce Sites with VirtueMart Cookbook you will learn how to create a full-functioning and attractive eCommerce solution with VirtueMart. You will be shown how to install and configure VirtueMart, how to set-up and run your store day-to-day as well as configure and customize the look and feel of your store. With this book by your side, you will be able to overcome as problems setting up, administrating and customizing your eCommerce store! This book finishes with blueprint projects meaning that getting started with VirtueMart is even easier for the novice and aspiring site builder or developer. If you have always wanted to create a professional-looking store, but are worried about the complexity and difficulty involved, then this book is for you! With numerous recipes, practical tips and solutions Building E-commerce Sites with VirtueMart Cookbook will take you through every step required to achieve eCommerce success.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Building E-commerce Sites with VirtueMart Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Creating a link to our store


The next minor issue is of being able to visit your store from the front end. If you go then you will find that the front end (customer facing) part of your store isn't there! We will fix this with a main menu link.

Getting ready

Log in to the Joomla! control panel if you are not there already.

How to do it...

To create the link to your store we will use the features of Joomla!:

  1. Navigate to Menu | Main Menu | Add New Menu Item. We now have this on the left-hand side of the new Menu Item screen. Look at the following screenshot:

  2. Click on the Select button next to the first option Menu Item Type. From the list under the VirtueMart heading choose Front Page.

  3. For Menu Title, enter the word or words that will appear in the main menu. I chose Shop. That will do. We will revisit other settings when we look at topics such as SEO and templates in later chapters.

  4. Click on Save on the top right of the screen.

How it works...

VirtueMart is installed and working but we needed to create a way to visit it. This simple link to the Shop home page is the first of a number of different ways of accessing your new store.