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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

Installing the Gantry framework/template


Gantry is extraordinarily configurable without coding, unlike the Warp framework and like the Warp framework, as we will see it is highly responsive to different screen sizes. So Gantry is ideally suited for the non-technical person, who wants a responsive website as well as making some simple customizations that make our site unique.

Getting ready

Download the framework for free from http://www.gantry-framework.org/download. Be sure to get the right one for your version of Joomla!.

When you have chosen your version of Joomla! you are faced with a few choices as shown in the following screenshot:

We need the Gantry template bundle for Joomla! x.x where x.x matches our version of Joomla!. Click on the Download button.

After getting it on your desktop, read on.

How to do it...

The Gantry framework like the Warp framework is well worth the few minutes it will take to install. Also, when we are done, be sure to take a look at how to configure it easily in the...