It has been a legal requirement for UK websites to be accessible since 1999. All websites are expected to make ‘reasonable adjustments’ to ensure their websites accommodate all users, regardless of ability or disability. It’s estimated that at any one moment, 20% of online users are disabled in some way. This may be a temporary [...]

Today I suddenly realised the client had asked for a Site Map when of course osCommerce doesn’t come with one. A quick search on the osCommerce site and I came across Dynamic Sitemap. This is perfect for the job. I added it on within about 10 minutes and then ran through the configuration of the [...]

After a few days of business meetings we’ve finally managed to get the page content online into the new site. This is where osCommerce falls down in my opinion. When I first looked at osCommerce I was slightly puzzled about how to update site content and then after rereading the front page on the default [...]

The template we’ve had to buy for the new store needed a few button alterations – not a problem. However on opening the header file up I noticed that the logo and all of the buttons were missing alt attributes. Simply put, turn off the images and the navigation and you’re left with nothing – [...]

I’ve set this blog up to write up the progress and information I come across whilst setting up a new store and also updating other stores for clients. I’m relatively new to using osCommerce so I’m not a hardcore expert but more of a native PHP user trying to learn the interface and look for [...]