Before you add your products, first create a Product Category for them. This is logical grouping of products in your store.
Products can be in multiple Categories, this make it easier for you when creating categories (because you have more flexibility) and easier for your customers to find what they are looking for when browsing your store.
product category tabs
The tabs you see when editing a product category, along with a description of the fields and their purpose, are shown below. Click on the relevant tab for details.
{tab Product Category Form}
General informations
Category Name
The name you want to display in the Categories box in your store.
Published Radio Button.
Check or Uncheck to show this category to shoppers.
Unpublished categories are still valid for control/dummy puroposes.
Sef Alias
Search engine friendly URL.
This will auto generate from your category name - change here as required.
Details
Category ordering
Which category will this follow in you category hierarchy.
Parent category
The parent category for this category - If there is none - then this is a "Top Level Category"
Category pagination sequence
Generally leave empty and the default store setting will be used.
This will create X items per page - with a Next/Previous link
Initial number of listed items
Generally leave empty and the default store setting will be used.
The inital number of items to display in this category.
Specify the category and sub-category where you want this product to display. Optionally specify how many products per row.
Meta information
These fields control the site meta information for this category, unless overriden by Joomla menus
You should familiarise yourself with these concepts before you start your VirtueMart store just search SEO on the web for a more detailed description.
Description
A description of this category for you shoppers. Consider what you want to say about the products that appear in this category.
A good description can make a lot of difference - images and links can be included to enhance this further.
{tab Product Category view settings}
General
Items per row
Omit
Shopfront settings - show
store / category description
Search
Children category
Products of the selected category
Featured
Discontinued
Top ten products
Recent
Latest
Template and Layouts
Category template
Category layout
Sublayouts for products in this category
Product Layout
{tab Images}
Images are used when this category is shown in VirtueMart views. They can be managed and uploaded here for this category.
Images search for an existing
A single image can be used for multiple categories.
To select an image already uploaded to your website, use a space to see all images OR begin typing a filename and results will appear.
Click the image to use from those displayed or search again.
Image Information
File Published
Check the box to publish or uncheck the box to hide the image.
Unique Filename
A unique "alias" or name for the image.
Displayed Image Title
What words do you want to appear when visitors put their cursor over the image?
Image Alt-Text
What words do you want a sight-impaired reader to hear to describe this image?
Used URL
Leave blank for VirtueMart to assign an URL to this image.
Used Thumb URL
Leave blank for VirtueMart to assign an URL to this image.
Role
Choose "displayable" to allow customers to view the image only, or "downloadable" if you want them to be able to download the image.
Storing Location/Type
Category is default and is completed for you.
Images Upload A new one
To upload an image from your computer,click and select it from you local images.
Choose whether to upload, replace existing image or replace the existing thumbnail image.
Click the top right to upload.
Note: Your image will not upload if you do not click