Updating from VM 3.0.2 to 3.0.4 broke my cart page

[wajcha001]

Hello,

First of all thankyou Bill for your help and support we very much appreciate it.

We just wanted to clear up any confusion in this matter.

1. The http://www.virtuemarttemplates.net website was established in early 2008 by a team of designers based in the UK & Europe.
2. We have been developing templates for Joomla and Virtuemart for 7 years.
3. The templates we have created at the website are used by customers around the world to create websites powered by Virtuemart.
4. We understand the about us page was not clearly visible to visitors and this was our mistake. We have now made it clearly visible in the footer menu of the website
    http://www.virtuemarttemplates.net/about-us.html
5. We have never included malicious code in the templates we have created at the website. If we did we are 100% sure there would be great deal more posts on this forum to make people aware about this.
6. We work extremely hard to ensure we provide customers with the best possible support at the website and we always try and encourage and promote the benefits of using Virtuemart to anyone we speak to.
7. The website is using http://www.sucuri.net to protect both us and our customers hence the reason for the proxy IP address.

If you have any questions or concerns about the service we offer we will be more than happy to answer them. Please feel free to contact us at at the website.
http://www.virtuemarttemplates.net/contact-us.html

Thanks
John

[Milbo]

I have asked myself the same question and wondered if they're affiliated. I will say that all of their templates come bundled with Virtuemart. They have what they call "quickstart" which is based on the same idea as RocketTheme's Rocket Launcher. You deploy it by restoring an Akeeba Backup which they provide.

No, we are not affiliated. But I think they actually asked me if they are allowed to use the domain. Actually to provide VirtueMart preinstalled with an akeeba quickstart is bad work. I know it is quite common, but often creates problems. A lot better is to use our fullinstaller. Do it one time and you willl notice a big difference.

[AH]

This is a moot point - I do not use their services, They are probably great people - working really hard.

To insinuate they're hiding malicious code in their templates sounds bit absurd to me.

I said:-

Who knows what might be in their code? 

This does not say that anything was or might be malicious!! 

If you owned a software company, would you want to be talked about the same way?

If I owned a software company - I would show my contact details and address.

The lack of real contact details is what triggers my concern.   If you want to gain peoples trust then providing such information is the first step.

They trade out of the UK and as a result should provide "the geographic address at which the business is established" + "contact details, including email address" -

The about us page gives a registered office address, this does meet the requirements above.

[Bill]

Thank you, Milbo. I appreciate your comments and I very much appreciate the awesome job you have done at Virtuemart. You certainly have my respect. The quickstart is not the only option they provide. They also have a stand alone template package that you install with the Joomla installer.

Hudson, I appreciate you too and respect you for being so helpful to all forum members who need tech support. As far as I can tell, you're topnotch too. I'm sorry that I pointed out your comment as being something negative. I won't do it again.

John, I appreciate the comments you made in this thread. As far as I'm concerned, you have a good product and I intend to keep using your templates.

Have a great day, everyone,

Bill 

[AH]

Hudson, I appreciate you too and respect you for being so helpful to all forum members who need tech support. As far as I can tell, you're topnotch too. I'm sorry that I pointed out your comment as being something negative. I won't do it again.

Bill, I was too ambiguous and should know better. 

If you have received good service from a group that promotes the use of Virtuemart - then by all means it should receive a mention here.

[Bill]

Thanks Hudson, I agree with you 100%.  John mentioned they made their "About Us" more visible with a link in the footer. I checked it out and everything is clearly stated. Between that and John's post, I feel pretty good about my decision to use their templates.

Bill

[Milbo]

Thank you, Milbo. I appreciate your comments and I very much appreciate the awesome job you have done at Virtuemart. You certainly have my respect. The quickstart is not the only option they provide. They also have a stand alone template package that you install with the Joomla installer

Thank you. I have also to clearify myself. To use an akeeba kickstarter is a common way. But we put a lot work to create another kind of installer, which takes care of certain multilanguage issues and other.

I suggest you to try one time the fullinstaller

[GJC Web Design]

and then of course you can load your template on top of that

[Bill]

Milbo,

I'm absolutely amazed and enthralled with the "new" VirtueMart. I haven't been around here much lately, but it seems to me that you're the lead guy; the head honcho; the top dog, or whatever you prefer to go by. Thank you so much for all your efforts!! I really think you've done a great job, because  VirtueMart is really a pleasure to work with now.

Next time I'll follow your advice and run the fullinstaller.

Thanks again,

Bill

[Bill]

Milbo,

I hope I'm not wasting your time, but my curiosity got the best of me. I wanted to follow your advice and do a fresh install of everything on my localhost today. The quickstart version of template I downloaded from http://virtuemarttemplates.net came with VM 3.0.2. and I wanted to stay on the upgrade path, so I downloaded VM 3.0.6 and installed it. I didn't see any difference between running that installer compared to the full versions of everything I just installed on my localhost. Am I missing something?

Thanks,

Bill

[jenkinhill]

I think Max meant a fullinstaller like VirtueMart3.0.6_Joomla_2.5.28-Stable-Full_Package.zip - on http://dev.virtuemart.net/projects/virtuemart/files

[Bill]

Thanks Kelvyn,

I still don't fully understand it, but that's because this isn't something I do everyday.

Bill

[Bill]

To whom it may concern,

Today I updated to VM 3.0.6.2 without any problems. www.virtuemarttemplates.net had an update for most of their templates to work with VM 3.0.6.2.  I installed the template update first, then I installed the two files for VM 3.0.6.2. Everything went smoothly and I continue to be impressed with VirtueMart.

Thank you VirtueMart Team and Tech Support for getting me on the right track.  I really appreciate it!

Bill

[Milbo]

Great, thank you for the update Bill