The VirtueMart home page, or landing page, is the first page that shopper will come to when he/she visits the shop. So, a discussion on the look of VirtueMart is incomplete without a thorough discussion of the home page template.
The first thing we need to note is the VirtueMart home page is different from the Joomla! home page although you can make them the same. The Joomla! home page is the page displayed when a shopper just types the Joomla! root URL. By default, it will display the frontpage component (or actually the content component that points to the frontpage). This default can be changed in the Joomla! backend menu manager. If you set a menu item that points to a VirtueMart component as the default, the VirtueMart home page and Joomla! home page will be the same.
The URL of the VirtueMart home page is index.php?option=com_virtuemart
. You can see this is a URL with the option
parameter set to VirtueMart, but without a value for the page
parameter. In that case,...