CorFun, a leading provider of eServices, has announced two new extensions for the Virtuemart Shopping Cart System. Virtuemart is the most popular shopping cart system for the Joomla Content Management System - a platform on which CorFun is a leading expert. The two new extensions are a JQuery-based Product Scroller, and the FlyTabs Virtuemart Theme.

"The Virtuemart Shopping Cart is an amazing system. It is highly flexible and configurable, and its combination with the leading content publishing tool in the market makes it hard to beat," said CorFun CIO Glen Chancy. "But, like any system, there are some things it could do better. That is where we come in. Our new Virtuemart extensions make it possible for developers, working on a budget, to really take their Virtuemart shops to the next level!"

JQuery is a popular Javascript library that can be used to perform some really great effects. CorFun chose this library to create its new product scroller for the Virtuemart system.

"The existing Virtuemart scrollers all had some serious drawbacks," explained Glen Chancy, "The biggest was the inability to specify exactly what products you wanted to showcase. Our scroller lets you specify a list of products, that way you get to feature only the products you are targeting for a specific page. The other drawback to existing scrollers was styling. We wanted a scroller that was visually appealing, and highly configurable. Some scrollers are created to work with only one template, for example. We wanted one that can run anywhere on any template."

In addition to its styling and smooth motion, the JScroller from Corfun can also be used in either a horizontal or vertical configuration.

"The scroller is insanely versatile," said Jerry Johnson the coder who wrote the JScroller, "We publish the documentation online so that potential purchasers can see just how easy it is to get exactly the look and feel that is right for their shops!"

Just some of the configuration options available are:

• Scroll horizontally or vertically
• Full images or thumbs
• Set the size of the images (both height and width)
• Set the size of the Title text
• Set the scroll speed
• Set the scrolling action - 5 choices for how the scrolling action should work!

To see a live demo of the JScroller, visit Corshops.com the online store for CorFun.

The second new extension from CorFun is the FlyTabs Virtuemart Theme. The Theme provides a high-end, custom coded feel to Virtuemart that normally costs thousands of dollars.

"Virtuemart has had a Theme system for awhile now. The Themes allow developers to really dress up their stores. The problem is - most developers don't!" explained Glen Chancy. "Most of them spend a lot of time making the Joomla template look great, but the part of the site that actually displays the product is often left as a sort of 'default style.' Part of this is lack of expertise, but part of it is also the expense. A lot of Virtuemart shops are do-it-yourself-jobs where the primary developer doesn't know a lot about CSS or Javascript, and can't afford the expense of custom code. But our FlyTabs Theme corrects all that. It is simple to implement and looks high-end and polished right from the start."

FlyTabs packs all the product detail information in stylish tabs to make the information more organized and user-friendly. In addition to the tabs, the Theme packs the following features:

• Custom Browse Page for Products within a Category. The default theme from Virtuemart is limited in its styling for displaying products within their category. The FlyTabs theme has a sleek, colorful display that includes a much more visible thumbnail.
• The amazing JQuery Zoom for main pictures. In FlyTabs, you put in a large picture for the product. This is a large image that really showcases your product well. To make the page even more exciting, you can specify a ‘Zoom’ image. When the shopper puts the cursor over the main image, the cursor turns into a ‘magnifying glass’ which magnifies that section of the image and shows it off to the left of the main image. The effect can be seen on our demo products and is just amazing. Rather than having a shopper ‘popup’ a larger version of the main image, this lets the shopper move around the main picture and zero-in on exactly the points of interest for that shopper. No other Theme for Virtuemart has this amazing image handling capability.
• Up to Four Additional Thumbnails. Specify up to four additional thumbnail photos of the product which load horizontally on the right of the main image. You can just have thumbnails, or you can load a ‘full’ image as well so that when the shopper ‘mouses over’ the thumbnail the image swaps into the main image area giving the shopper a full view of the picture! This is a great effect which really gives the shopper control of the page.
• Integrated Video Player. FlyTabs comes with an integrated video player. Simply upload a video as an additional file attached to any product, and the Video button will automatically appear on the product below the thumbs. The shopper clicks the video button, and the included video player pops up and plays the product demonstration video. Video plays in an attractive lightbox overlay to save valuable screen real estate.
• Custom Add to Cart area. The add to shopping cart area is in an attractive, colored box which really gets a shopper’s attention. The price is large, and very visible with a ‘Add to Shopping Cart’ graphic.
• Easy Installation. Install the Theme by transferring the files to the Themes Directory of your Virtuemart component
• Complete Documentation. Follow the easy steps in the included documentation to implement your new Theme to its maximum potential.

To see a demo of the FlyTabs Virtuemart Theme, please click here.

"We expect this to be very well-received," said CorFun President Olan Chancy, "Virtuemart is hot and themes for it are still hard to come-by. A theme like this with so many features is going to be just the thing many eStore owners needs to separate them from their competition."

To get more information about either of these two extensions, please visit Corshops.com

CorFun is a leading provider of eServices specializing in the Joomla platform. Visit CorFun.com for more information.