Readers will learn to configure their stores with the most essential shop functionalities such as creating and using the appropriate zones and currencies, configure payment methods, shipping methods, and taxes. In addition to this, users will be able to manage manufacturers, vendors, products, and product categories.

Developers will be able to customize the appearance of the website by installing and configuring VirtueMart themes, managing products, orders, and using search engine friendly (SEF) URLs, thus helping them in attracting customers to their store. Along with this, they will be shown how to build a wide customer base by learning about VirtueMart’s promotional tools such as banner ads, featured products, newsletters, coupons, etc.

By using region-specific taxes, multiple currencies, installing new languages, and translating the language of the site, users will be able to add further value to their store. To broaden VirtueMart functions for bulk import/export of products to the shop catalogue, users will learn to add third-party extensions to their website. They will be able to spice up their shop by updating multiple product information on the shops website, and displaying slideshows with product images at the same time.

Along with installing, setting up and customizing a brand new VirtueMart store, developers will learn to secure, maintain and troubleshoot it by backing up and restoring files and databases of the store to the server.

Joomla! users interested in building an e-commerce store will find this book useful. This book is out now and is available from Packt. For more information, please visit: http://www.packtpub.com/joomla-e-commerce-with-virtuemart-1-1-x/book

The 22nd revision of RSForm! Pro brings a new feature: generating XHTML compliant tableless layouts.

The new layout is called "Inline (XHTML)" and uses a series of list items to define the components, instead of table rows, like the "Inline" layout does. The layout has been tested with Joomla!'s Milkyway and Purity templates, both of which have passed the XHTML 1.0 Transitional specifications.

You can now use a WYSIWYG editor instead of a textarea, allowing form submitters to style their submissions.CAPTCHA image and font size can be customized. The default size is now"15" and you can increase it as much as you want.

When adding a form to the menu you will no longer have to type in the form's ID - you will be presented with a list of all your forms and you can choose the form you want to be displayed.

Various SQL and PHP code has been rewritten, so you may feel a slight increase in performance when handling big forms (100+ components) .

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