Re: FN-FORUM: Oscommerce / STS - where is the download ??

date posted 13th April 2008 19:01

You can customise to your heart's content with both systems.
It depends on your ability to code and if you want a table free site or
not (OSC is tables within tables within tables etc - Zen cart is
relatively table free).

Personally I prefer Zen cart for ease of use although it is a little bit
constricting if you really need to push it to it's limits.

Lee Rickler
Director - Point and Stare - pointandstare.com
Web Design and Development for over 11 years

John Deaville wrote:
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> Well someone on this forum recommended it for a relatively easy way to
> customise your template layout a couple of weeks back...
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> I donšt know where to start but my position is this:
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> I have been designing and updating a website for a company for several
> years, the last update they were really happy with - no database, no
> ecommerce, just nice looking layout.
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> Now they are looking at the logistics of adding ecommerce ability to it, I
> thought I will use a system like oscommerce or zencart or similar, so that
> they can manage their products at their end, but I need to be able to
> customise the template and ideally use the layout that I have now
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> Can anyone recommend a system where I can design my pages using CSS and HTML
> and then use this layout (within reason of course)
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> How about Joomla/Virtuemart
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> It's all very well saying hire a pro, but for what kind of money, because I
> obviously want to earn out of it and if it is going to cost me 1500.00 for a
> weeks work then I wont ... And I would obviously like to learn a system to
> use in case anything similar crops up in the future
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> So any recommendations ?
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> Thanks in advance
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> John
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> On 13/4/08 7:19 pm, "Lee Rickler" [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
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>> Save your time, hair, temper and money and hire a pro.
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>> Lee Rickler
>> Director - Point and Stare - pointandstare.com
>> Web Design and Development for over 11 years
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>> Punters Power wrote:
>>> o dear, if you can't find the right contrib download I would not consider
>>> trying to install STS !
>>> It is not the easiest of systems to addon and considering the upcoming PHP5
>>> and MySQL5 updates happy days!
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>>> andrew
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