This is an extension for the Virtuemart e-commerce Joomla component. The Special Product Gallery is ideal for e-commerce stores selling products with a strong visual component, such as artwork. It creates an image gallery using the images associated with the products in the Virtuemart catalogue. The gallery features a button link (with customizable text) to the Virtuemart product page.

The administrator can choose in the component parameters whether or not to show the product price in the product caption.

The extension can function as a module or as a component. The products featured can be: products on special display, random products, top products, and recent products. The appearance can be customized, with either a horizontal or a vertical layout for the thumbnails, plus the background colour and style can be chosen, with a choice of either solid or a gradient background.

This extension has been recently updated, and now includes a choice of Flash and HTML/javascript galleries.

The Flash gallery includes a choice of 4 layouts, and a variety of image transition effects. The HTML gallery includes an optional scroller andan image lightbox. A new content plugin which is included with the extensions allows you to embed the HTML gallery directly into a Joomla article.