motarque Posted February 9, 2004 Posted February 9, 2004 Hi, am I able to customize oscommerce? Things like, changing the colors of the background, inserting my company logo, getting rid of the: >>"This is a demonstration online-shop, any products purchased will not be delivered nor billed. Any information seen on these products are to be treated fictional." << statement that is on the opening page? Thank you. Quote
TCH-Rob Posted February 9, 2004 Posted February 9, 2004 wiki.oscommerce.com is a good start forums.oscommerce.com is not bad if you do a deep search We make a good backup. Bavckground colors are in the CSS, edit the catalog/includes/language/english/english.php to get rid of the "This is a demonstration online-shop" part and the logo at the top is in the images folder and it is called oscommerce.gif. I just renamed my logo to that and overwrote the old file. Quote
vengavenga Posted February 9, 2004 Posted February 9, 2004 Yes, indeed osCommerce is incredibly customisable. As Rob suggests, you can start off which the basics like changing the logo, background colour etc and then move on to more advanced things as and when you need them. It can all be a bit overwhelming to begin with, the best thing to do is forget trying to "learn" osCommerce as a whole, and instead concentrate on tasks one at a time ... trawl through the forums, play around until it works and then worry about your next task. 90% of the sites I design for my clients are osCommerce based and I really can't imagine there being anything better Good Luck, and if you get stuck on anything in particular, let me know and I'll try and point you in the right direction if I can .... Ali www.vengavenga.com Quote
motarque Posted February 9, 2004 Author Posted February 9, 2004 excellent. Thanks. I'll do some work with the basic stuff and check out the oscommerce websites for more stuff. Quote
motarque Posted February 10, 2004 Author Posted February 10, 2004 Ok, so far i've been able to add my logo to the site and change the background colors, however, it would be nice to make some layout changes to the OsCommerce site. The problem is I don't know php well at all. Is there an easy WYSIWYG editor for php that I can use; in the same way Dreamweaver and FP are editors for html? Thank you. Quote
shasgurl Posted June 2, 2004 Posted June 2, 2004 i am facing the same challenges. i don't know php, so it's difficult to customize the shopping cart. i've figured out part of it, however i'm lost with the rest. is there a more simpler wysiwg editor? Quote
vengavenga Posted June 2, 2004 Posted June 2, 2004 I'm afraid not There are lots of php editors that make it easier to see what's what (colour the code etc) but you'll still just be looking at a page of text. Try not to be put off by it all though. Most of it you don't need to understand at all. Once you've added a new module (by following the instructions supplied with it to the letter) then adding the next one will be easier and so on. It's a learning curve, but not an impossible one Ali Quote
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