Impementing Theme inside My joomla Exsinig Site

[Nimrod Gal]

Hello everybody, i am a fresh newbie on Virtuemart

I have a specific question......

My existing site works with amazing RtL Template Which I bought from Yootheme and It's working perfect on my joomla 2.5 Version, i Have installed virtuemart 2 on my website and now i see that my store looks by default very simple and not stylish.

I saw a great looking Templates that looks amazing with great features for Virtuemart.

My question is:

Can i still stay with my general template and to implement other template only for the views of the products, categories Etc... ?

Thank you in advanced.

[jenkinhill]

You can use two or more Joomla templates within a J2.5 site, it is just a case of allocating each template to the right menu items. You can also easily style the VirtueMart display to work nicely within your current template bu using template overrides. Or even buy a theme just for VirtueMart display.

BUT the issue with these commercial templates "styled for VirtueMart" or with commercial VirtueMart themes is that they are too often configured for an earlier version of Virtuemart and have to be modified for use with current versions. eg all the Template Monster templates I have seen have overrides for VirtueMart 2.0.6 - an older version whsich is known to be insecure.

The best option is to make your own template overrides for VirtueMart, laid out and styled to suit your Yoo template - it just needs a little basic knowledge of PHP, HTML and css. If you make it yourself then you will know how to modify the layout if required for future VirtueMart versionhs. eg VM2.1 is due out soon.

[Nimrod Gal]

Thank you jenkinhill for your  answer

I do know that i can use couple of joomla themes and assign them to the relevant menu as i set it on the Joomla template manager.

I saw the Pro Mart Template on virtueplanet web site and i want to have the views on my product page and categories web page look like this + quick look and to use my current template.

What is the easiest way to do it?

is there is a tutorial for overrides?

[jenkinhill]

See http://www.ostraining.com/blog/joomla/overrides  and  http://dev.virtuemart.net/projects/virtuemart/wiki/Hints_for_the_use_of_the_template_system  for template overrides, which have been around since Joomla1.5 was introduced.

I suspect the ProMart template may be based on an earlier version of VM, around 2.0.8-10