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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

Personalizing your store content with Sourcerer


There is no end of tricks you can perform with Sourcerer. Anything that can be done in PHP, JavaScript, HTML, or CSS can be neatly placed on any page at just about any place and without having to hack around with the Joomla! or VirtueMart code.

In this recipe we will see how easy it is to personalize a product description. That is, to use the customer's name as if speaking to them personally. It is a sales technique used by bricks and mortar stores and can make a difference to how your customer feels about you and your products.

Getting ready

Make sure you have Sourcerer installed. If you didn't follow the previous recipe Installing Sourcerer this will help you to set it up in just a few minutes.

How to do it...

Now let's add a personal greeting to the Smaller shovel product description. Of course there is a good chance you are not selling gardening equipment. This recipe can be easily adapted to work in any article, category, Joomla! HTML module...