Joomla and VirtueMart Templates Today

Joomla themes can be built with either tables or CSS (cascading style sheets.) Generally speaking, it is better to use a Joomla web template that is built completely with CSS, but basically speaking, there is no problem with using a Joomla template or theme that is developed with tables.

Joomla VirtueMart Themes Explained

Templates for Virtuemart are Joomla-based templates created especially for enabling you to run a premium shopping cart on your website. VirtueMart Themes were professionally designed to create the most functional and convenient environment for the maximum eCommerce performance.

Learning Joomla Content Management System

Joomla makes building and editing internet sites a breeze! Joomla is a versatile open source CMS that gives you the tools you will need to do your job in any internet project.

Virtuemart Online Shop Solution

VirtueMart is a Joomla component that is used as a online store software and/or as an image gallery, depending on your website. Even though VirtueMart is a full featured shopping cart, it also is a superb image gallery for displaying art or images that are not for sale online. It is fairly easy to learn how to add and update your VirtueMart cart/gallery even if you are not a computer pro.

Virtuemart Ecommerce Solution Features

Virtuemart Web Store Solution supports an unlimited number of products and categories, with products able to be assigned to multiple categories. It also permits the sale of downloadable products, and offers a catalog mode where the shopping cart features are turned off. VirtueMart supports multiple prices for a single product, based around shopper groups or a quantity range, and permits the use of a variety of different payment gateways.

Because VirtueMart is an open source e-commerce solution all the application code is openly visible in PHP. This allows PHP developers to view, update or customize the operation of the shopping cart. In addition VirtueMart itself offers simplified templates ( called 'fly pages' in VirtueMart) structure that allows various shopping and cart page(s) to be edited as standard html and css.

Notably new to VirtueMart 1.1.0 was the inclusion of the ability to quickly change themes for category, product, checkout and cart pages.

VirtueMart Hosting Requirements

As VirtueMart is only a plugin for Joomla! / Mambo, it has the same system requirements, which are currently:

• Joomla! 1.0.x or Mambo (>= 4.5.1) recommended: Joomla! 1.5.x (VirtueMart will soon only work with 1.5 or above).
• PHP 4.2.x or above - recommended: PHP 4.4.x
• MySQL 3.23.x or above -recommended: MySQL 4.0.x
• Apache 1.13.19 or above -recommended: Apache 2.x

Several other required supporting libraries or extensions include MySQL, XML and Zlib support built into PHP. Support for https (openSSL) and cURL is recommended.