Joomla is a famous content management system with an active developer base. In fact, the application is well known throughout the world due to its versatility. Various type of websites can be made with this wonderful script and web developers love it as it cuts down the time of actually creating a full blown site directly from scratch.
Joomla is also used as an e-Commerce site and there are various extensions available to do so as well. The VirtueMart is an Editor’s Pick extension for both Joomla version 1.0 and 1.5. It is a powerful extension capable of creating a full blown e-Commerce site. In fact, it is so widely used in the Joomla e-Commerce community that it has numerous plugins as well as themes created for this particular extension as well. A must look for those wanting to create an e-Commerce site with Joomla.
Another method of having e-Commerce with Joomla is by integrating it with Magento. There are various extensions available to do this such as as J!Mint, MageBridge and many others. However, doing this will have the site developer to install two different softwares under the same site. In fact, for MageBridge, there are various themes created by its developer Yireo which can be used to further customize the site.
Using Joomla for e-Commerce purposes is great for those wanting to sell a small collection of items. However, with proper tweaking, it can also be done to support the selling of hundreds if not thousands of items.
Tags: e-commerce, J!Mint, joomla e-commerce, magento