Despite being only a single shopping cart component within the larger Joomla framework, Virtuemart is a vast and complicated system in its own right. It is in many ways almost as large and complicated as Joomla itself with about 1500 files between the front and back-ends, as well as its own completely self-contained module and templating systems. I'll be covering Virtuemart in a number of future posts but here are a few quick tips to get started.

While browsing around Joomla.org the other day, I came across one of the most interesting blog posts I have seen lately. In this post, the author Ankit Ahuja speaks about his Summer of Code project in which he fine-tunes a feature that will have both Joomla! developers and clients alike scrambling for the Extensions Directory when it comes out. Front-end editing has finally arrived for the Joomla! CMS.