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Table of Contents

Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction to Joomla! and E-Commerce
Chapter 2: Installation and Basic Configuration of Joomla! and VirtueMart
Chapter 3: Configuring the VirtueMart Store
Chapter 4: Managing product catalogue
Chapter 5: Managing Customers and Orders
Chapter 6: Customizing the Look and Feel
Chapter 7: Promotion and Public Relations
Chapter 8: Localization of VirtueMart
Chapter 9: Extending VirtueMart's Functionalities
Chapter 10: Maintenance and Troubleshooting
Appendix A: Configuration Options
Appendix B: Resources for Joomla! and VirtueMart
Index
  • Chapter 1: Introduction to Joomla! and E-Commerce
    • What is Joomla!?
    • Main features of Joomla!
    • Use of Joomla!
    • Joomla! and e-commerce
      • Affiliate carts
      • Paid access to content
      • Billing and payment systems
      • Auction systems
      • Shopping carts
    • What is VirtueMart?
    • Features of VirtueMart
      • General features
      • Product catalog features
      • Administration features
      • Payment modules
      • Shipping modules
    • Joomla! and other shopping carts
      • osCommerce
      • Zen Cart
      • Magento
      • Freeway
    • Store example used in this book
    • Summary
    • Chapter 2: Installation and Basic Configuration of Joomla! and VirtueMart
      • Pre-requisites for installation
        • System requirements
        • Setting a development environment
        • Getting Joomla!
        • Getting VirtueMart
        • Uploading installation files to server
      • Creating database for Joomla!
      • Brief installation process for Joomla!
      • Basic configuration of Joomla!
      • Basic administration of Joomla!
        • Managing contents
          • Managing sections
          • Managing categories
          • Managing articles
        • Managing extensions
      • Installation of VirtueMart
      • Basic configuration of VirtueMart
        • Adding VirtueMart to menu
        • Showing the modules
      • Summary
      • Chapter 3: Configuring the VirtueMart Store
        • VirtueMart administration panel
        • Store information
        • Shop configuration
          • Global configurations
            • Shop status configuration
            • Price configuration
            • Frontend features
            • Tax configuration
            • User registration settings
            • Core settings
            • Logfile configuration
          • Security settings
          • Checkout configuration
          • Feed configuration
        • Managing countries
        • Managing currencies
        • Using shipping modules
          • Flex shipping
          • Standard shipping
          • Zone shipping
        • Using payment modules
          • Adding credit cards
          • Configuring payment methods
            • PayPal
            • Credit card processing through Authorize.Net
            • Cash on delivery
            • Adding a payment method
        • Adding tax rates
        • Summary
        • Chapter 4: Managing product catalogue
          • Catalogue management
          • Managing manufacturers
            • Adding a manufacturer category
            • Adding a manufacturer
            • Listing the manufacturer categories
          • Managing vendors
            • Vendor category
            • Adding vendor
            • Managing vendors and categories
          • Managing product categories
            • Adding product categories
            • Modifying product categories
          • Adding a product
          • Managing products
            • Adding multiple product images
            • Adding extra files with products
            • Configuring downloadable products
            • Using attributes
              • Simple attributes
              • Parent-child products
            • Using product types
              • Adding product types
              • Adding parameters to product types
              • Adding product type to products
          • Summary
          • Chapter 5: Managing Customers and Orders
            • Customer management
              • Registration/Authentication of customers
                • Revisiting registration settings
                • Enabling VirtueMart login module
              • Managing fields for user registration form
                • Adding a new field
                • Editing a field
              • User manager
                • Joomla! user manager
                • VirtueMart user manager
                • Which user manager should we use?
              • User groups
                • Joomla! user groups
                • VirtueMart user groups
              • Group permissions
                • Assigning permissions to user groups
                • Adding new module
                • Adding new function
                • Assigning users to groups
                • Checking how these work
            • Managing orders
              • Viewing the orders
              • Viewing an order's details
              • Understanding an order's status
                • Managing order status types
                • Changing an order's status
                • Viewing an order's history
              • Order statistics
              • Managing inventory
            • Summary
            • Chapter 6: Customizing the Look and Feel
              • Configuring the look and feel of a Joomla! site
                • Installing Joomla! templates
                • Applying a template
                • Customizing a template
                • Changing a site's logo
              • Customizing VirtueMart's look and feel
                • Look and feel configurations in VirtueMart
                • Customizing and applying themes
                • Customizing templates
                  • Shop front-page
                  • Product listing
                  • Product detail page
                  • Basket templates
                  • Checkout templates
                  • Email templates
                  • Other page templates
              • Using search engine friendly URLs
                • Built-in Joomla! SEF
                • SEF with sh404SEF
              • Summary
              • Chapter 7: Promotion and Public Relations
                • Promotions
                  • Promotional discounts
                    • Creating discounts
                    • Adding discounts to products
                  • Special products
                  • Best sellers
                  • Latest products
                  • Random products
                  • All-in-one
                  • Scrolling products
                  • Cross-selling and up-selling
                  • Use of discount coupons
                • Customer reviews
                  • Enabling review
                  • Submitting reviews
                  • Moderating reviews
                • Newsletters and product notification
                  • Using Acajoom Newsletter
                    • Configuring Acajoom
                    • Creating a list
                    • Creating newsletters
                    • Creating an article with product information
                    • Sending newsletters
                  • Adding fields in the Registration Form
                  • Using the Vemod News Mailer
                • Summary
                • Chapter 8: Localization of VirtueMart
                  • Why localization?
                  • Localizing regions and taxes
                    • Countries
                    • Adding state or region
                    • Configuring taxes by region
                  • Using multiple currencies
                  • Using multiple languages
                    • Adding a new language to a Joomla! site
                    • Translating the site language
                      • Manual translation
                      • Translation through the translator component
                    • Showing multilingual content
                    • Translating VirtueMart language files
                  • Summary
                  • Chapter 9: Extending VirtueMart's Functionalities
                    • Bulk product imports and exports
                      • Creating new import and export template
                      • Using import and export templates
                      • Using CSVImproved for catalogue building
                    • Using product tag clouds
                    • Using testimonials
                    • Improving product reviews by commenting
                    • Wholesaling from a VirtueMart store
                    • Using social networking and bookmarking sites
                    • Using AJAX updates for products
                    • Adding some spice to the shop
                      • Spicy cart
                      • Slideshow with product images
                      • Including modules in content items
                    • Summary
                    • Chapter 10: Maintenance and Troubleshooting
                      • Uploading the local site to web server
                        • Transferring local site by FTP
                          • Step1: Transferring site files
                          • Step 2: Dumping and recreating a database
                          • Step 3: Reconfiguring Joomla! and VirtueMart
                        • Faster relocation using JoomlaPack
                      • Backing up files and databases
                        • Using JoomlaPack
                        • Using LazyBackup
                      • Auditing and hardening security
                        • Joomla! tools suite
                        • GuardXT
                        • Some tips about security
                      • Common problems and troubleshooting
                        • Joomla!-related problems
                          • Problems with installation of extensions
                          • SEF problems
                        • VirtueMart-related problems
                          • Problem after relocation
                          • Issues related to user registration
                          • Showing latest products
                          • Issues related to vendors
                          • Issues related to VirtueMart SEF
                          • Issues related to multilingual contents in VirtueMart
                      • Summary
                      • Appendix A: Configuration Options
                        • Configuring shipping modules
                          • Australia Post
                          • Canada Post
                          • DHL
                          • FedEXdc
                          • Flex
                          • Intershipper
                          • Shipvalue
                          • Standard shipping module
                          • UPS
                        • Configuring payment modules
                          • 2Checkout
                          • Credit card (eProcessingNetwork)
                          • Credit card (PayMeNow)
                          • eWay
                          • iTransact
                          • noChex
                          • PayMate
                          • VeriSign Payflow pro
                          • WorldPay
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