Virtuemart is the best free shopping cart available for the Joomla content management system. Packed full of features and backed by a huge community, Virtuemart is the heart of many Internet shops. But there is always room for improvement. On Virtuemart stores, the Virtuemart categories are often neglected. They sit over on the side in a Category menu, but for many shops the key to success is getting customers onto category pages as quickly as possible and shopping! Which is why CorFun is pleased to announce the Virtuemart JCategory Scroller! Using the powerful JQuery Javascript library, this new scroller lets you scroll your Virtuemart product categories and showcase them as never before.

Your Virtuemart store is a signficant investment in time, effort, and money. For many companies, eCommerce is their lifeblood. You need your store to be organized, and your products easy to find. To organize products, you put them into categories. The categories all have their main pages which showcase products in a user-selected order.

How can you get your categories into your shoppers' faces more effectively? For many virtual shopkeepers, the answer has been to feature representative products from each category in a scroller. But that only goes so far, as the customer ends up landing on the product page and then click away after losing interest.

What you need is to get customers onto a category page where your total line of merchandise can wow them effectively. CorFun has built many Virtuemart stores for customers, and quite a few for ourselves. We understand the dynamics of the shopping experience, and we know how tough it can be to get an entire product line in front of fickle, online shoppers who are just a mouseclick away from the competition.

Our experience as virtual shopkeepers is what inspired us to develop the Virtuemart JCategory Scroller. Native to Joomla 1.5, the category scroller is the solution to any shop wanting a way to 'draw-in' visitors immediately to the Virtuemart product categories.

Here are the basic features of the scroller:

• Easy to use. You can have up to 10 different versions of the scroller on one page, and an unlimited number of them overall on your Website. For each instance of the scroller, you select the Categories that will appear. Simple as that. The pictures and names of the categories you choose will show up in the scroller. No guessing and no putting things on special or any other kind of work-around processing. You specify exactly the categories you want to show, put the module on the pages on which it belongs, and specify the module position. Simple, easy, effective.
• The Virtuemart JCategory scoller module automatically displays the Category image and formats a link to the category main page. Have a short introduction to the category that you want to display? No problem. You can optionally show the Category description! A simple setting in the module admin lets you control whether the description and the Category Title are displayed, or only the Title.
• Use any size photos - choose between full or thumb and size as you see fit. The size of the pictures is totally under your control. Some pages need smaller scrollers, some bigger. You have total control over your display.
• Easy to customize! The Virtuemart JCategory scroller uses JQuery for cool scrolling effects, but the look and feel are provided by pure, simple CSS. The scroller looks great out-of-the box, but if you need to customize it, then rest assured that simple CSS knowledge will suffice to make the JCategory scroller look organic to your store.
• Scroll horizontally or vertically! Some pages need a banner scroller. Some pages need a vertical scroller tucked off to the left or right. The Virtuemart JCategory scroller shows your Virtuemart categories either way you choose.
• Wide variety of scrolling actions:
  • Null - stop scrolling and disable the Next button.
  • First - when the user scrolls all the way to the first item, scroll all the way to the bottom and continue to scroll up.
  • Last - when the user scrolls all the way to the last item, scroll all the way to the top and continue to scroll down.
  • Both - when the user scrolls all the way to the end (first or last item), scroll all the way to the opposite end and continue to scroll.
  • Circular - emulates a true circular carousel.

You have a Virtuemart store to sell products and make money. Having a technically sound shopping cart is only a part of that process. The fact is that visual display is incredibly important in online shopping. To convert site visitors to site customers you need to get them off your front-page and deeply engaged in the shopping experience. The Virtuemart JCategory Scroller from CorFun does exactly that! It is a simple, easy, and effective way to boost sales in your Virtuemart store.

Don't hesitate. If you run a Virtuemart store, check out our Virtuemart JCategory Scroller today! Click here to see a horizontal and verticle demo. Click here to visit our store page.

Save with the Scroller Pack!

CorFun also offers a Virtuemart JCarousel Product Scroller. The product scroller lets you select products to feature, and then for each product you can display:

• Product Name
• Product Price
• Product Short Description
• Add-to-cart button

For a limited time only, CorFun is offering both these scrollers together in a single package for $29.95.

Click here to visit the Scroller Pack store page for more details.

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 [Virtuemart Category Scroller Now Available]

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