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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

Customizing the Gantry framework/template


We will go through configuring all the main Gantry options. Follow along exactly or vary what you do at various stages to end up with a different result.

Getting ready

See the previous Installing the Gantry framework/template recipe.

How to do it...

As mentioned at the start of this recipe, what makes Gantry different from other frameworks is the extent to which we can customize the look of our template without a single line of code. Let's make some customizations now as shown in the following steps:

  1. Navigate to Extensions | Template Manager and click on the Gantry - Default link. Select the Overview tab.

  2. First we are going to choose a preset. That is one of the preconfigured starting points from which we will begin customization. Click on the Presets button in the row of buttons near the top of the page. You will see a cool drop-down of preset configurations to choose from as shown in the following screenshot:

  3. Let's choose Preset 4 because it is light...