There are choices in tabbed themes for Virtuemart. But what if you already have a design that you like, but just need the tabs? A whole new Virtuemart theme could be a bear to implement if you already have a look you are mostly happy with. And then again, what if you aren't ready to devote the hours needed to put all your products in tabs at one time? What I needed, as a developer with a big shop to manage, was a good-looking tab system that I could implement in my existing Virtuemart shop at my own pace. Good thing CorFun is a development company and our lead developer, Jerry, created vmdTabs - Virtuemart Description Tabs

CorFun, Inc. has announced a major enhancement to its DynaTabs Virtuemart Theme. The new package includes an ability called "Multi Zoom," which allows up to four different thumbnail images to be activated by clicking and then present a "zoom" image.

Both DynaTabs and FlyTabs are excellent Virtuemart themes that have custom styling and tabs. While similar, they are very different in a lot of ways. This quick blog outlines the major differences.

CorFun released the highly successful FlyTabs theme over a year ago. FlyTabs presented the standard Virtuemart product information fields in elegant tabs. The theme also combined the incredible Zoom image feature and other enhancements. The theme was highly successful, but CorFun recently decided to take tabs in Virtuemart to a whole new level. The standard Virtuemart product fields just don't do justice to all products - so why not have a Virtuemart Theme that supports totally customizable information and the standard Virtuemart fields? Welcome to DynaTabs - the most flexible tabbed Virtuemart Theme available!

The Flytabs Virtuemart Theme does some really awesome things. In addition to arranging the product data in easy-to-navigate tabs, the theme provides the awesome Zoom Image functionality, image swap, and even an embedded video player.

Flytabs is a Virtuemart Theme. As explained in a different blog post, a Virtuemart Theme only controls the functioning of the shopping cart. Your Joomla website must have a template of some kind in addition to our Virtuemart tabbed theme.

The vast majority of Joomla templates will work with FlyTabs.  Here are some cases in which FlyTabs and your template may not get along.

When was the last time that your image presentation in Virtuemart actually wowed a client? Okay, the default image handling isn't too bad. You get a thumbnail, which pops up into a lightbox. If you need multiple images, then you get a stack of thumbnails on the product details page - which also pop up into lightboxes.

Frankly, it's all a little ho-hum to say the least. Much of what we sell on our CorShops site is actually software, so we don't need the images so much. After all, we can demo the software and that helps sell the sizzle. But most of our development clients sell physical products, and they need to put these in the best possible light. And that light is usually not a 'lightbox,' which is why we created the FlyTabs Virtuemart Theme.

Virtuemart is the best shopping cart solution around for Joomla CMS. Joomla, of course, just happens to be the best content management system around, so the combination of the two is a serious powerhouse. Joomla requires a template to operate. Virtuemart uses a theme, but since it runs inside Joomla, it works with the template also. That causes a lot of confusion for more novice users, so we would like to help clear that up. New online shop owners need to understand how they unique and look and feel of their sites will be generated.