Introduction

Welcome to Setting Up Shop. As the name suggests, by the end of this chapter you will have a working Joomla!/VirtueMart installation, with some core e-commerce features such as a shopping cart, product search, and fully functioning backend control panel.

The first step is to install Joomla! itself, then VirtueMart and its core components, and then we move on to the first steps of configuration of the VirtueMart. Then we will create the must-have e-commerce pages such as About us. Next we create a custom menu to link to the must-have pages that we just created, and finish up by arranging some core e-commerce modules such as a shopping cart.

Let's not waste any time. If you have your Joomla! site already, you can skip this recipe. If you haven't got one, you will in about 10 minutes.