VirtueMart is a free shopping cart plugin available for both Joomla! and Mambo. VirtueMart is an open source, e-commerce application that can be run either as a shopping cart or in catalog mode. VirtueMart is written in PHP format so it is fully compatible to Joomla!. Just like Joomla!, VirtueMart can be modified and customized as well.
VirtueMart is a complete shopping cart solution that can also be run as a catalog. One of the most attractive features of this powerful application is its capacity to handle numerous categories, products, customers and shipping modules. You can also sell goods such as mp3 files, software and videos.
Installing VirtueMart is not a complicated process and involves a simple and straightforward steps. Let’s do it now.
Step 1: First you will need to download the full VirtueMart package which is available at their official site. After the package is saved to your hard drive, you can begin the installation process.
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Joomla is a powerful, open source content management system (CMS) that is freely available for anyone to use. It is an award-winning application is a dynamic platform that you can use to build a powerful, scalable website with little or no technical expertise.
Requirement: Joomla will run on Linux, Free BSD, Mac OS X, and Windows NT/2000. The Joomla authors recommend that you run it on Linux or Free BSD. But it should run if you have: Apache, MySQL, Php.
Follow the Easy Step For Installing the Joomla CMS Manually:
Step 1: First of all Download Joomla from its website.
Step 2: Extract the downloaded Joomla package to your computer.
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While doing custom projects for Joomla, we have come across plenty of free and paid Joomla extensions some of them are simply great. Following are few which are perfect, especially as they are free and highly usable.
These can be used on any Joomla websites, and have seemed to worked on the sites we have developed. We will continue to use these, try these out.
JoomlaXplorer
This Joomla component is a robust file manager that works within Joomla. Although you must be working with an external FTP program but this is a coolest add on and certainly helps people who are not actively into development. It would be great to see this extension to get integrated into Joomla some day.
Artio JoomSEF
This Joomla component gets you to include SEO and on your Joomla driven website. There are plenty of SEO plugins, but its support makes it stand apart and highly useful. Patched version of Artio JoomSEF is GPL and ad free. SEO is a must for you to get online presence and a lot of effort has to be taken in order to rank better. This Joomla extension is highly recommended for SEO while being on Joomla.
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Joomla 1.5.4 is out, this is just an update, nothing major. This version will fix several issues including some minor security issues, bug fixes and add carries few more improvements. Check following list for the issues which were addressed in this update.
Security Issues Fixed
- Added security to file caching to prevent unauthorized access to cached pages
- User Redirect Spam fix
- htaccess global variable security fix when SEF is enabled
List of Bug Fixes
- Major Cache overhaul, including unit testing for quality assurance
- Router issues related to extending the router
- Menu ordering issues when nested menus were used Read the rest of this entry »
VirtueMart is a free shopping cart plugin available for both Joomla! and Mambo. VirtueMart is an open source, e-commerce application that can be run either as a shopping cart or in catalog mode. VirtueMart is written in PHP format so it is fully compatible to Joomla!. Just like Joomla!, VirtueMart can be modified and customized as well.