When combining virtuemart, joomla and SH404sef you tend to get a pretty good combination. The problem lies however with the flatterned urls in virtuemart. Joomla 1.5 has native support as most of you reading this would know however it does not handle many third party components to well. Virtuemart being a great example of this. In turn you are left with a large list of options. One of these being SH404sef and like any third party application it has its issues. This includes the way it handles some of the Virtuemart urls like the “Add Shipping Address” link in the account maintenance or even in the checkout sections of the Joomla / Virtuemart combination.
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Recently I worked on a project for a client and they wanted to customise their “Best Sellers” or Top Ten Modules appearance. The design came back with a product image, product price and a link to the product details. To achieve this in Virtuemart is not overly hard however it does have its inherit draw backs. Some include the fact you cannot have multiple module positions on your site for the top ten module. Instead you have to do the design for the one width / position then work your to the final product from there. This of course is for Joomla 1.5.x and Virtuemart 1.1.x. If you need a similar solution for older versions I will not be able to help as you should be upgrading your virtuemart store to the latest version along with your Joomla Install.
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