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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 MyMuse for digital download products


As with J2Store, MyMuse is not a replacement for VirtueMart. It is very good at one thing, selling digital downloads. In this recipe we will simply install MyMuse and in later recipes we will make it do something interesting.

MyMuse is not free. It costs $50 for a license and 6 months support and updates. We will hopefully see enough of MyMuse in this recipe to decide if it is the right solution for your digital downloads store.

Getting ready

Head over to www.mymuse.ca to purchase a license or read this and the next 2 recipes to evaluate if MyMuse is for you.

How to do it...

Ready to get your music store off the ground? Then follow the given steps:

  1. Download the file com_mymuse_J25-2.5.3-994.zip from the www.mymuse.ca website after subscribing. Put it somewhere convenient, like on your desktop.

  2. From the main Joomla! menu select Extensions | Extension Manager.

  3. In the Upload Package File area click on Browse and select the file com_mymuse_J25-2.5.3-994...