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| CorFun Improves the Virtuemart Shopping Cart System |
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| Written by Sarah Long | |
| Tuesday, 28 April 2009 | |
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"The Virtuemart Shopping Cart is an amazing system. It is highly flexible and configurable, and its combination with the leading content publishing tool in the market makes it hard to beat," said CorFun CIO Glen Chancy. "But, like any system, there are some things it could do better. That is where we come in. Our new Virtuemart extensions make it possible for developers, working on a budget, to really take their Virtuemart shops to the next level!" JQuery is a popular Javascript library that can be used to perform some really great effects. CorFun chose this library to create its new product scroller for the Virtuemart system. "The existing Virtuemart scrollers all had some serious drawbacks," explained Glen Chancy, "The biggest was the inability to specify exactly what products you wanted to showcase. Our scroller lets you specify a list of products, that way you get to feature only the products you are targeting for a specific page. The other drawback to existing scrollers was styling. We wanted a scroller that was visually appealing, and highly configurable. Some scrollers are created to work with only one template, for example. We wanted one that can run anywhere on any template." In addition to its styling and smooth motion, the JScroller from Corfun can also be used in either a horizontal or vertical configuration. "The scroller is insanely versatile," said Jerry Johnson the coder who wrote the JScroller, "We publish the documentation online so that potential purchasers can see just how easy it is to get exactly the look and feel that is right for their shops!" Just some of the configuration options available are:
To see a live demo of the JScroller, visit Corshops.com the online store for CorFun.
Click on the thumbnails above to see large images. The second new extension from CorFun is the FlyTabs Virtuemart Theme. The Theme provides a high-end, custom coded feel to Virtuemart that normally costs thousands of dollars. "Virtuemart has had a Theme system for awhile now. The Themes allow developers to really dress up their stores. The problem is - most developers don't!" explained Glen Chancy. "Most of them spend a lot of time making the Joomla template look great, but the part of the site that actually displays the product is often left as a sort of 'default style.' Part of this is lack of expertise, but part of it is also the expense. A lot of Virtuemart shops are do-it-yourself-jobs where the primary developer doesn't know a lot about CSS or Javascript, and can't afford the expense of custom code. But our FlyTabs Theme corrects all that. It is simple to implement and looks high-end and polished right from the start." FlyTabs packs all the product detail information in stylish tabs to make the information more organized and user-friendly. In addition to the tabs, the Theme packs the following features:
To see a demo of the FlyTabs Virtuemart Theme, please click here.
Click on the thumbnails above to see a larger image. "We expect this to be very well-received," said CorFun President Olan Chancy, "Virtuemart is hot and themes for it are still hard to come-by. A theme like this with so many features is going to be just the thing many eStore owners needs to separate them from their competition." To get more information about either of these two extensions, please visit Corshops.com CorFun is a leading provider of eServices specializing in the Joomla platform. Visit CorFun.com for more information.
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