osCommerce templates
Attitude has just released the first in a series of basic osCommerce templates to give you an affordable and easy way to get a more unique store appearance. Attitude osCommerce Templates »
osCommerce Review
- The Customer's Perspective: How osCommerce works to create a positive shopping experience
- The Merchant's Perspective 1: How osCommerce works to allow effective selling on the Internet
- The Merchant's Perspective 2: How osCommerce works to allow you to administer your Shopping Cart
- Strengths of osCommerce Explored
- Customizing the osCommerce template
- Weighing Up the Options
- Disadvantages of osCommerce
- Advantages of osCommerce
- Final Comments
- Legal Stuff
osCommerce Demonstration
Attitude has two osCommerce demonstration stores available for evaluation. One, highlighting the full feature-set of osCommerce, the other, showing how osCommerce can serve simpler shops with smaller product ranges.
A difficulty sometimes faced by users of osCommerce relates to the system used by osCommerce to lay out and arrange the store. osCommerce is currently not a template driven system, and this sometimes makes changing the layout of the store somewhat lengthy if complicated changes from the base look of the site are required.
Having said this, osCommerce effectively allows quick changes to the look of the site by altering the shared header, footer, and left and right column files. These can be easily and quickly updated and the change is reflected through all pages. It is also possible to quickly change the styles and colors on the site by using the site-wide cascading stylesheet. These methods provide a fast way to change the look of an osCommerce site.
The next released version of osCommerce will feature a more flexible system for modifying the template.