oscommerce template and questions

[wendydettmer]

ok, so i know nothing about oscommerce, but volunteered to help someone with their store set up lol. anyway, do you need to code the template special like with mambo? does anyone know any good tutorials on oscommerce? i didn't find much in their forums.

[WhatiFind]

I recently came across this website: http://www.templatemonster.com/oscommerce-templates.php it sells templates for oscommerce. There's also a free sample, here you can take a look how it's done. I'm not familiar with oscommerce but the templates look cool.

[North Carolina SEO]

I've recently coded by hand an osCommerce installation and it can become rather time consuming!

There are a number of add-on contributions (contribs) that enhance the application for SEO, links management, etc. The project can become rather daunting if you do not make it clear up front how far you are willing to go! :)

[carowan]

im in the process of reskining and upgrading the stock OS commerce download. Its a lot of work, especially if you want to make it look decent (stock looking stores are lame and are a dime a dozen) but I think in the long run it is worth it, as you have unlimited flexibility, and has tons of excellent mods

For something that may be a little easier look into zencart. Its essentially OSC but with a lot of SEO benefits already added.


There are also ebooks that you can download for about 15 bucks.

[North Carolina SEO]

I'm just beginning to dabble with zencart and agree with carowan (don't quote me on that ;) ). It looks to be considerably easier to adjust the look than osC.

[wendydettmer]

Thanks guys. do you know if zencart supports paypal?

[wendydettmer]

nevermind, answered my own question :)