The Yagendoo team got a small surprise for you today. We decided to offer some of our "Add to cart" buttons which were used in our old standalone themes for free download from now on. There is no catch - the buttons may be used without any limitation or restriction in private as well as commercial. Here are the conditions for the use...

The whole team of the Yagendoo Media GmbH wishes you a merry christmas 2011!

Just when we thought that the additional workload that is so typical for the time before Christmas - you certainly know what we are talking about - was slowly drawing to an end with the last days before Christmas, the Virtuemart Core team decided to surprise its users once more with some great news at the end of the year. Virtuemart 2.0 has now been released in a stable version!

Some weeks ago, we have published a new Joomla! & Virtuemart enhancement that allows a simple and flexible integration of your Virtuemart online shop with product portals and services such as Google Merchant Center (used to be Google Base).

Integrating Virtuemart with Product Portals – How to Proceed

The enhancement consists of a basic component which provides the infrastructure to aggregate your data and ensures a simple and central management of the interfaces. The interfaces are Joomla! plugins which can easily be installed using the Joomla! installer. If a plugin is installed for a service, the configuration of the respective provider is also available centrally in the component.

The standard Virtuemart modules you normally get for Virtuemart are difficult to customize both in functionality and design. This is due to the fact that they are not up-to-date as they do not use the MVC principle Joomla! uses. The MVC principle allows you, for example, to adjust the way modules are output by your Joomla! template.

We have the solution: MVC Virtuemart Product and Menu Modules

In the course of the last weeks, we have published some Virtuemart modules addressing the problem mentioned above. Using our Virtuemart modules, you can present your products just the way you want. In addition to the option to customize the output via template overrides, our modules also provide default styles fulfilling today's web standards. All of our modules are XHTML and CSS compliant and structured in a search-engine optimized and table-free way. Thus, search engines such as Google can crawl and index your site without any problems.