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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

Cool header banners with jQuery and Sourcerer


Sourcerer is one of the most versatile add-ons for Joomla!. It allows us to add code (JavaScript, CSS, HTML, and PHP) just about anywhere in our website without editing a single file. This is useful in many ways and they are explored in detail in Chapter 7, Extending Joomla! and VirtueMart. But this recipe fits here nicely because we can significantly enhance the appearance of our store by using Sourcerer to add some JQuery magic and implement some cool header banners.

If you haven't installed Sourcerer, see the Installing Sourcerer recipe in Chapter 7, Extending Joomla! and VirtueMart.

Tip

You do not need to follow the Installing jQuery with Sourcerer recipe because it is not necessary to complete this recipe. In fact if you have completed the Installing jQuery with Sourcerer recipe, then you should disable that module before continuing here.

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