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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

Adding products to MyMuse


Having just opened our first digital music download store we had better add some products to it.

Getting ready

Have your mp3 files in a convenient place ready for uploading.

Tip

You can also add short play samples. These need to be prepared as separate files.

How to do it...

We will quickly add some categories, a product and a track:

  1. In the Joomla! control panel select Components | MyMuse and then click on the Categories tab.

  2. Click on the New button.

  3. Enter a title in the Title field as shown in the following screenshot:

  4. Enter a description of this category in the Description field as shown in the following screenshot:

  5. Click on Save & Close.

  6. Repeat steps 2-5 to create all your categories.

  7. Click on the Products tab.

  8. Click on the New button.

  9. In the Title field enter the title of the song.

  10. In the Main Category dropdown select your category that the song belongs to.

  11. Enter an SKU in the SKU field. This is mandatory in MyMuse unlike in VirtueMart.

  12. In the Product Physical dropdown select...