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virtuemart used in combination with Joomla 1.5/Joostina 1.2 or Strelin - A Review |
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Thursday, 11 November 2010 |
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Thed following is a review I posted on the JED for Virtuemart
 I love it! - virtuemart provides a full-featured shopping cart and the
best thing is that it integrates with Joomla. You need to
know/understand how Joomla works to appreciate how useful this
integration is. Suffice to say that the two complement each other
perfectly and you can get very good SEO results if you implement this
combination properly. Virtuemart has flaws, glaring ones like the child
product attributes and the poor and limited shipping structure. It also
does not compete with the dedicated shopping carts like OSCommerce which
are more fully featured. It is no good for very simple carts because it
requires a lot of configuration - it is like having a site within a site
and takes just as much work to implement. However, it is pretty well
perfect for the small to mid-range shop as long as you are prepared to
put the hours in. Only choose Virtuemart for your shopping cart after
you have fully checked to see if it corresponds to your requirements.
The combination of Joomla and virtuemart is perfect. A bonus is that
Virtuemart also works with Joostina and the new 1.5 CMS Strelin.
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