Newb at the helm...

[copycatprinting]

I have a printing shop and want to create a retail web presence.

Here's where I am at and here's what I'm hoping to accomplish... hopefully, the braintrust here can help.

I have installed joomla as I believe it may be the best alternative for our endgoal.
I have installed the virtuemart extension for the shopping aspect.

What I am trying to figure out is the following for now to get started.

If I put Printing Services as a top menu, I'd like to have it drop down to show the different services... ie: business cards, postcards, fliers etc... then as you move you mouse over each of them, then either you can click on it or another submenu drops down showing the different options... for example, under business cards, showing 14 point or 16 point. Then customers can quickly go to where they want rather than a bunch of listed categories for them to search through.

Also, for those that don't like that option, I'm wanting to do exactly the opposite by having all the categories listed on the side so they can scroll down the list and see what they want.

Best of both worlds... but where to start.

I thank each of you in advance for any/all help in this matter.

CC

[jake2124]

hey man check out this extension http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions ... enus/18101 it might be a little much for what you're looking for but it'll look nice. Extensions are basically new features you can add to Joomla that help you customize your site. the features don't automatically come with joomla when you download joomla so you have to download them, save the download to your desktop (temporarily so you can find it easily), go to "Extension Manager" under the "Extensions" tab in the admin panel, go to the bottom of the page where it says "Upload and Install Joomla Extension", click "choose file" and choose the folder you saved to your desktop (its ok if it's a zip file you don't need to extract it), click "upload and install", then bam! gotchoself an extension. You may be able to edit it under the "components" tab, or I think you can edit it by going to Extension>Module Manager>New> then make a new module of the menu type. Don't forget to set the module position. cheers!

[Per Yngve Berg]

A Drop Down Menu Depends of the Template you are using. What Template are you using?
A proper Menu Class Suffix must be set dependant of the Template.

[copycatprinting]

currently using the Beez template...

A Drop Down Menu Depends of the Template you are using. What Template are you using?
A proper Menu Class Suffix must be set dependant of the Template.

[copycatprinting]

Installed joomla Printmart template... logged in, went to go make changes and everything I do something, go to save or save and close, this error shows up... ideas?

JFTP: :write: Bad response

[Per Yngve Berg]

Please use the Forum Post Assistant and post the result here.
Turn off the FTP Layer in Global Configuration.
Tmp and log path mabe wrong.

[copycatprinting]

thanks, that allows me to do what I need to change things, much much appreciated

Please use the Forum Post Assistant and post the result here.
Turn off the FTP Layer in Global Configuration.
Tmp and log path mabe wrong.