ecommerce website development

Professor Syed Rizvi

VirtueMart is a Shopping Cart Application for selling goods over the internet. It's a Component for a Content Management System called Joomla! It can't be used without Joomla!.

It installs fairly easy using the automatic Component and Module Installer. It's intended for use in small / mid-sized Online Businesses / Online-Shops. You can use this Component for selling to build up an Online Store

Manage an unlimited Number of Products and CategoriesUse it as a Shop or just as an Online-Catalog Sell downloadable ProductsPowerful Web-Administration InterfaceProduct Import & Export using CSV Files

Add Images and Files to a ProductAdd Attributes (like Size or Color) to your ProductsManage Customers in Shopper GroupsAssign more than one Price to a Product: each Shopper Group has its own!Display Prices either including or excluding tax (manageable for each Shopper Group)

Shop Statistics / Control Panel with a Summary of new Customers, new Orders....Manage the Stock Level for Products and ItemsNotify Shoppers when a Product is back in StockUse Zone based Tax Calculation (city/state & country/region) ORStore Owner based Tax Calculation (e.g. in European countries)

Manage your own Shipping Carriers and RatesUse InterShipper, UPS, USPS or Canada Post Shipping Rate API.Complete Order Management with Order History, Customer Notification and Order EditBasic Reporting Feature: sold Items, monthly & yearly RevenueManage Order Statuses

Shoppers can add their own Shipping AddressesCustomers can easily search for ProductsFeature specific products by setting them on specialLet your shoppers know when a product is available againShoppers can see, in what time a product will usually ship, on product-details page

Shoppers can manage their User Accounts (registration required)Shopper can view all their Orders with DetailsOrder Confirmation Mail (customizable!) is sent to Shopper and Store OwnerManage different Currencies, Countries & StatesUse safe SSL encryption (128-bit)

Capable of live Credit Card ProcessingUse payment gateways like authorize.net, eWay, Worldpay, PayMate and NoChex....Use PayPal or the 2Checkout IPN gatewayExtend your Shop with other Payment & Shipping Modules or just write your own!Many more! Just browse to virtuemart.net [http://virtuemart.net] for more Features & Extensions

Download xampp software package from:http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html(see the heading XAMPP for Windows 1.7.3, 2009/12/23 Basic Package. The file link is labeled EXE and 51 MB Self-extracting RAR archiveRemember the location on hard drive where it is stored

Double Click the downloaded xampp-win32-1.7.3.exe fileAccept all defaults dont change directoryIt should create a program group in a All Programs named Apache FriendsThere should a link under it called XAMPP Control PanelThere is a directory, xampp, under C drive (see the bottom from Windows Explorer)

Form All Programs Apache Friends, click Xampp Control PanelClick once on Start button in front of Apache and then of MySql. You should see two green labels Running

Open a IE or Firefox browser windowEnter address: http://localhostYou should see a Welcome Screen for XAMPP

Create a subdirectory named virtuemart under C:\xampp\htdocs Copy the virtuemart bundle file, VirtueMart_1.1.4_eCommerce_Bunde_Joomla_1.5.14.tgz, into the new virtuemart folderUnzip the virtuemart bundle file VirtueMart_1.1.4_eCommerce_Bunde_Joomla_1.5.14.tgz into this new virtuemart subfolder

Enter :http://localhost/virtuemartSelect en_US EnglishClick NextPre-Installation Checks should be all YesClick NextClick Next again to accept the License terms

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