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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

Removing the Joomla! branding at the footer


With each version of Joomla! and VirtueMart being better than the last one in terms of looks and performance, it is not unheard of to launch your store with the default looks of Joomla! and VirtueMart.

The least you will probably want to do is remove the Powered by Joomla!® link at the footer of your store. This will make your store appear entirely your own and perhaps have a minor benefit to SEO as well by removing the outbound link.

Getting ready

Log in to your Joomla! control panel. This recipe was tested using the Beez_20 template but should work on any template where the same message appears. We will also be using the Firefox web browser search function but again, this is almost identical in other browsers.

Identify the message to be removed on the frontend of your site as shown in the following screenshot:

How to do it...

This is going to be nice and easy so let's get started and perform the following steps:

  1. Navigate to Extensions | Template Manager...