The Village Chess Shop has been at the same location since 1972. We are in the heart of Greenwich Village, just one block below Washington Square Park. We were the first to create a place where chess players could come and play as well as find a set to bring home. “The Chess Shop”, as we are commonly referred to, takes great pride in displaying hundreds of chess sets from all over the world. Many a tourist has come in smiling, saying how wonderful that such a “museum of chess” exists.
Our shop is open from eleven a.m. until midnight, E.S.T., seven days a week, 365 days a year. We do try and close a little early on major holidays (to please the families of some of our more dedicated players.)
eCommerce Web Design Feature using Joomla and VirtueMart:
Joomla CMS Feature:
You can manage complete website from website administrator area
Advertising management (banners, etc)
Built-in Help files
Built-in site search engine
Build-in content syndication (RSS)
Create, publish, and reorder and edit articles in a click
Create your own publishing schedule
Content display scheduling
Completely database-driven site engines
Email-a-friend and Print-format(pdf) for every story and article
Easy to use graphical administrative interface
Text editor similar to Word Pad
News, products or services sections fully editable and manageable
News feed manager. Choose from over 400 news feeds from around the world
Trash Manager (A “Recycle Bin” for your web site)
Media (images, documents) upload and management
Search engine friendly (SEF) URL’s
WYSIWYG content editor support (built into the CMS)
Simple polls
User Management
Joomla has a registration system that allows users to configure personal options. There are nine user groups with various types of permissions on what users are allowed to access,edit, publish and administrate.
Authentication is an important part of user management and Joomla support multiple protocols, including LDAP, OpenID, and even Gmail. This allows users to use their existing account information to streamline the registration process.
Media Manager
The Media Manager is the tool for easily managing media files or folders and you can configure the MIME type settings to handle any type of file. The Media Manager is integrated into the Article Editor tool so you can grab images and other files at any time.
Language Manager
There is international support for many world languages and UTF-8 encoding. If you need your Web site in one language and the administrator panel in another, multiple languages are possible.
Banner Management
It’s easy to set up banners on your Web site using the Banner Manager, starting with creating a client profile. Once you add campaigns and as many banners as you need, you can set impression numbers, special URLs, and more.
Contact Management
The Contact Manager helps your users to find the right person and their contact information. It also supports multiple contact forms going to specific individuals as well as groups.
Polls
If you want to find out more about your users, it’s easy to create polls with multiple options.
Search
Help navigate users to most popular search items and provide the admin with search statistics.
Web Link Management
Providing link resources for site users is simple and you can sort them into categories, even count every click.
Content Management
Joomla’s simplified three-tiered system of articles makes organizing your content a snap. You can organize your content any way you want and not necessarily how it will be on your Web site. Your users can rate articles, e-mail them to a friend, or automatically save a PDF (with UTF-8 support for all languages). Administrators can archive content for safekeeping, hiding it from site visitors.
On public Web sites, built-in e-mail cloaking protects email addresses from spambots.
Creating content is simple with the WYSIWYG editor, giving even novice users the ability to combine text, images in an attractive way. Once you’ve created your articles, there are a number of pre-installed modules to show the most popular articles, latest new items, newsflashes, related articles, and more.
Syndication and Newsfeed Management
With Joomla, it’s easy to syndicate your site content, allowing your users to subscribe to new content in their favorite RSS reader. It’s equally easy to integrate RSS feeds from other sources and aggregate them all on your site.
Menu Manager
The Menu Manager allows you to create as many menus and menu items as you need. You can structure your menu hierarchy (and nested menu items) completely independent of your content structure. Put one menu in multiple places and in any style you want; use rollovers, dropdown, flyouts and just about any other navigation system you can think of. Also automatic breadcrumbs are generated to help navigate your site users.
Template Management
Templates in Joomla are a powerful way to make your site look exactly the way you want and either use a single template for the entire site or a separate template for each site section. The level of visual control goes a step further with powerful template overrides, allowing you to customize each part of your pages.
CMS eCommerce Feature (VirtueMart):
You can manage complete website from website administrator area
General Features
capable of using Secure Sockets Layer (https) Encryption (128-bit)
flexible Tax Models
Model 1: ShipTo Address-based Tax Calculation
Model 2: Store Address-based Tax Calculation
Model 3: EU Mode (Store Owner based Tax Calculation when Customer comes from an EU Country)
Shoppers can manage their User Accounts (registration required)
Shipping Address Management (Customers can enter their own Shipping Addresses)
Order History: Shopper can view all their previous Orders (and Order Details)
Order Confirmation Mail (customizable!) is sent to Shopper and Store Owner
Multiple Currencies (you can allow Customers to change the Currency and buy using an alternative Currency)
Multiple Languages (using the Joomla! Component Joom!Fish or Nooku).
Product Catalog Features
Powerful Web-Administration Interface (Javascript-powered)
Manages an unlimited Number of Products and Categories
Can be used as a Shop or just as an Online-Catalog (you can even turn off Price Display)
quick Search for Products, Categories and Manufacturers; filter by features or discounted Products
Product Ratings & Testimonials (moderated or auto-published)
feature specific Products by setting them “on special”
Product Availability: show how fast a Customer can expect delivery
Handles downloadable Products (virtual Goods)
“Product is back in Stock”-Notification for subscribed Customers
Administration Features
multiple Images and Files (like Spec Sheets and Flyers) per Product
Product Attributes (like Size or Color) can be added to Product
Shopper Groups for Customers (allows different Price Levels and Payment Options),
multiple Prices per Product (Quantity-based and/or Shopper Group-based Prices)
flexible Price Display (number & currency formatting; including or excluding tax)
On-the-Fly Price Conversion between different Currencies using Live Rates from the ECB or other banks
Shop Statistics / Control Panel with a Summary of new Customers, new Orders….
Stock Level Control for Products and Item
Order Management with Order History, Customer Notification and Order Edit Functionality
basic Reporting Feature: sold Items, monthly/yearly Revenue
Order Status Management
manage different Currencies, Countries & States
Payment Modules
Capable of live Credit Card Processing
Pre-defined Payment Gateways like authorize.net®, PayPal, 2Checkout, eWay, Worldpay, PayMate and NoChex
Extend your Shop with other Payment Modules using the Payment Module API!
Tax Rates
Product prices can be displayed “including tax” or not.
Choose between Shipping-Address-based tax calculation (city/state & country/region)
Shipping Modules
Flexible Shipping Carriers and Rates Configuration
Live-Shipping Rates using Shipping Modules (e.g. InterShipper, UPS, USPS, FedEx or Canada Post; Modules can use the Shipping Rate API).
extend your Shop with other Shipping Modules using the Shipping Module API!
Order Management
Complete Order Management
Automatically notify your customers when the Order Status changes
See who has ordered: IP address storing
Extend the pre-defined order statuses with your own ones
“Nice” Features for Customers…
Let your customers easily search for products through a search form
Shoppers can see, in what time a product will usually ship, on product-details page (with nice images!)
Shoppers can manage their user accounts
Shopper can view all their orders (and order details)
Order Confirmation mail (customizable!) is sent to shopper and store owner
CMS News Letter Feature: (AcaJoom)
You can manage complete website from website administrator area
Subscription feature:
First time wizard to help you send your first newsletter successfully.
Copy function for lists and newsletters which can be used to manage newsletter template.
Special front-end user-panel (so users can easily manage the newsletters they are subscribed to)
Auto-configuration of mailing settings
Front-end edition of newsletter for Administrators
Sending mailing report to list owner
Personalize newsletter by greeting the reader with their firstname.
Imports email list data from any source
Integrated Subscriber History
Past newsletters Public Archive
Conforms to most ISP restrictions for sending mail.
Unlimited lists
Unlimited newsletters
Unlimited subscribers
Classical newsletters functionalities:
Handle registered or unregistered subscribers
Attachment capability
Email address validation when registering
Sends test email to admin before whole list
Ability to Ban emails
Embedded images option
Automated unsubscribing link
Preview newsletter before sending either on the screen or send a test email.
Statistics management (Number of Sent / Opened newsletters, HTML or text only)
HTML or TEXT only mailings
No limit on mailing list size In the near future
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