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A good catalog extension?
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- KO
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Hello,
I did a little web surfing today and saw a site at this link...
magento-themes.joomlart.com/jm_purity/
ok ok, i'm looking at other template designer's sites... but the thing that got me is how they made their site appear as an e-commerce site. I like how their items appeared in the bottom of the homepage... in the module "best selling products" and then links out to the products details... Now are they using a specific joomla extension to make catalogs and if so what is it? I don't know but the only catalog extension I know that is ok and is free is VM, but I seem to be having problems with their encoding for different languages but most of all I'm just want to know how to make a catalog looking website.
Does anybody out there know of any good catalog extensions that work?
Thank you for reading.
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- Rich Bean
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KO,
I hate to break the bad news to you but that's not a Joomla Template. It's the default Magento Template.
Magento is an Open Source Shopping Cart Software. Which is what they are trying to sell the template for. They also do Joomla templates but what you were looking at was a Magento one.
Hope that Makes Sense.
Rich - My Sites:
Perth Website Design
Scuba Marketing
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- KO
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Hello Richard,
Thanks for clearing up the assumption that I had. I guess I was misled that it was a joomla template. But I'm happy to know about a new CMS that specializes in e-commerce.
BTW, can joomla do something similar to that using several extensions?
Thanks.
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- JEM
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Well, you've already looked at VM, which is probably your best choice.
It may take a bit of work to get it looking the way you want, but I'm almost sure they have modules for publishing content the way you want.
You also mentioned problems with encoding for different languages.
Is your site a single language, or multi-language?
Have you looked at language packs at VM, or considered using Joom!Fish if it's a mulit-language site?
There are content element files available which will allow you to have your site in the languages you want or need. - Thanks,
jim
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- KO
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Hello JEM,
Thanks for your input. It is always appreciated. In regards to my site, it is a single language site. I have checked out VM's language packs but they have most languages but not the language that I am looking for, which is Korean. I have tried working without it but it seems that there are some encoding issues, which is why I get "????" characters over the texts.
Overall, I like VM. It's highly customizable and easy to learn. I'll guess I'll stick to VM because I myslef haven't found any other better components, its just the language that is being a headache. Tha's why I'd thought I'd ask about such extensions. I'll try to start translating those php files when I have the time... whenever I do...
KO
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