You didn't need to completely give up from K2 component.
All you had to was opening the K2 Parameters and disable the "jQuery" loading.
Our VM Template itself doesn't load any jQuery, but it uses the jQuery that is loaded by Virtuemart Officially, which is the jQuery1.6.4, if any component or plugin loads additional jQuery version, you will end up with a JAVA Conflict error. This is normal, because only 1 jQuery is enough for a single page. To avoid jQuery duplication, either K2 or Virtuemart should stop loading jQuery. But; since not everybody uses K2, we have designed our VM Template to work with jQuery1.6.4 which is loaded by Virtuemart. So having K2 to stop the loading jQuery makes more sense.
If we get back to your problem for now. If you are having problems while changing the category layout; please take a look at the TUTORIAL.PDF (page 8)
www.flexiblewebdesign.com/puremart/TUTORIAL.pdf
If you want to change the "category per row" numbers (it is 1 now in your website) in your VM Frontpage (which is this:
combinedhearts.com/store), then look at the screenshot below:
If you want to remove the LITTLE triangles in your VM Frontpage, open this CSS file:
combinedhearts.com/templates/yougrids/html/com_virtuemart/assets/css/flexibleVM2Global.css
Scroll to the bottom and add this CSS rule:
div#FlexibleFrontpageTabs ul#FlexibleFrontpageTabsUL li {
padding:0;
margin:0;
background:none;
}
The result will be:
If you want to change the layout of the "pagination" links
and make them looks as you see in our DEMO
Open your FTP and find this PHP file:
combinedhearts.com/templates/yougrids/html/pagination.php
change its name to
combinedhearts.com/templates/yougrids/html/pagination2.php