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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

HikaShop quick evaluation tour


HikaShop could be the topic of a whole book and it could never be done justice in a couple of recipes. This recipe will be a fast and furious look at some of the features that HikaShop has to offer, to help you evaluate its worth to you or your clients.

Getting ready

Go to our HikaShop control panel by selecting Components | HikaShop. We will start from here. The page will look like the following screenshot:

How to do it...

Let's look at some of the in-depth configurations and cool options of HikaShop:

  1. One of the most striking things in HikaShop that you just don't get in your average shopping cart software is built-in affiliate management. Hover over the Affiliates tab (as seen in the following screenshot) to see our options here. This is a significant addition for any business that intends to promote itself using affiliate campaigns. And as alluded to in the previous recipe, this is a feature not available in the free version.

    Following are the features provided...