You would like to run a shop with Joomla! and Virtuemart and are looking for a Virtuemart Theme or Virtuemart Template to optically add value to your Virtuemart shop? In that case, you should consider in advance what you would like to achieve with your shop. Do you want to run a Joomla! eCommerce shop just for fun? No, of course not.

You want to make money. Consequently, you should at first contemplate how you can stand apart from your competitors... How you can make your customers' visit to your shop as convenient as possible - until they ideally buy something. Would you shop in a store that looks just like all the others? I wouldn't...

Will an online shop created sloppily with the standard Virtuemart theme or a free Virtuemart theme used by innumerable people gain the trust of your potential customers? This is a question you should ask yourself as a Joomla eCommerce shop owner. If you see things with the eyes of your potential customers, you will definetly answer this question with "no".

On jinsiders.de, a German Joomla! blog, our friend René interviewed the chief developer of the new Ninjaboard, Stian Didrikson. Yesterday, after a Skype session with Stian, he and I decided to publish this interview here in English as well since Google Translate does not seem to do as good a job as it's supposed to ;-)

As to the personal data, Stian is 20 years old and lives in Stavanger/Norway. He is currently a developer at Ninjaforge and Prothemer and he and his team distinguish themselves by the development of Ninjaboard version 1.0 that is to appear soon in a stable version. This promises to be interesting.

What do you think, when will the Ninjaboard be available as final version?
We have a milestone set for this month.

Meanwhile, the Beta 3 of NB was published. But the month is almost over, so where is the expected milestone? Any unexpected problems?
Yeah, the upgrade to a very powerful new feature in the Nooku Framework (called KConfig, a new API that is similar to the Options API in MooTools) was more work to upgrade to than expected.

We've also reevaluated our 1.0 feature list, and looked at the remaining workload. So we have changed our plans, RC will be out instead of the stable, and RC will come about a week after Beta4 which is coming this week.

So we're more or less delayed by 2 weeks.

How many people work on the Ninjaboard?
It's me, Stephanie Schmidt, Richie Mortimer, Uwe Walter and Mark Simpson.

It's been exactly a fortnight ago that we released the last update of our Virtuemart Theme VaMazing, which mainly solved bugs you had reported. Today, we released version 1.3.0. that contains 2 improvements you asked for.

Firstly, it is now possibly to deactivate the Image Zoom in the Product List View via parameters in the backend. Secondly, and on repeated request, we have integrated a query that checks whether categories contain any products at all. Consequently, if the respective category only contains subcategories but no products, an output of the empty categories will be disabled.

In addition, we have solved 3 smaller and one major bug, e.g. that the number of products in the shopping cart was wrongly displayed on some systems. For this reason, we recommend all our clients to immediately upgrade their Virtuemart Theme VaMazing. As usual, the new package can be obtained via the download area while logged in or directly via the download link you were sent per mail after your purchase.

Important: Since the theme.xml was also modified, it is essential that you open the Theme Configuration after updating the package and save it anew. Update instructions can be found in the update.txt contained in the package.

So long,
your Yagendoo team

After some time, we have now published a new update for our Joomla! component "Virtuemart Search Center". On several systems, errors occurred under certain circumstances. Unfortunately, solving these problems appeared not to be so easy due to the variety of settings options, and some errors had not been solved after the last update, resulting in repeated delays for the release of the new version although the Support Tickets announced differently. We'd like to apologize for this and hope that you'll understand. Mistakes happen, and that's unfortunately also true for us ;-)

No more errors occurred after repeated testing on several client websites in this version, so all of the reported errors should be solved now. There are no new features in this version, but we are planning to integrate some features you suggested in a new version already this summer. We cannot yet estimate how long the release of the new version will take, but we'll keep you updated.

A complete list of the solved errors can be found in the change log file included in this package. As always, you can find the new version in the download area of your client account. If you ordered more than half a year ago and the download is no longer available, please write a Support Ticket containing your order number and we will re-start the download period. After all, this is a bug fix and we don't want you to pay for it again.

In this spirit, enjoy the new version!
Your Yagendoo team