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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

Introduction


Welcome to Setting Up Shop. As the name suggests, by the end of this chapter you will have a working Joomla!/VirtueMart installation, with some core e-commerce features such as a shopping cart, product search, and fully functioning backend control panel.

The first step is to install Joomla! itself, then VirtueMart and its core components, and then we move on to the first steps of configuration of the VirtueMart. Then we will create the must-have e-commerce pages such as About us. Next we create a custom menu to link to the must-have pages that we just created, and finish up by arranging some core e-commerce modules such as a shopping cart.

Let's not waste any time. If you have your Joomla! site already, you can skip this recipe. If you haven't got one, you will in about 10 minutes.