If you sell digital products on your site such as eBooks or software, then I’m sure you know they sell better if you give them a graphical look. However this can be quite time consuming to do well. DIY Covers is a suite of photoshop actions to save you the time and effort and produce [...]

Well the new site is finally ready for launch. We’re just waiting to hear back from Protx to make sure they’re happy with it all and then the site will go live. The client is a big believer in AdWords so the initial visitors won’t be hard to get. Hopefully if she can make a [...]

I’ve not found a built in way to control sorting the product attributes yet. There’s probably a contribution to do this however considering it’s only a single line change which took me about 5 minutes to find I figured it wasn’t a concern to find a contribution for it. At present there is no ordering [...]

Despite buying a template for this website we’ve had rework the layout for the product display on the single page as well as every results listing. Due to the products my client’s selling, most of the images are long and thin as opposed to boxy. The original design had the image to the left and [...]

It’s been one of those months with no ADSL connection at home, and too many deadlines going on to really get much done on this site. Knowing my client still had plenty of work with adding the products her end meant I relaxed a little about the last few alterations for her site to get [...]

So how far have we got? Well the site is now running on the live domain, the client is adding in her products and they’re almost displaying correctly on the front end. Because of the product photos in use, some are long and narrow, others are square. Not ideal really, but we’ve got to work [...]

We’ve had two test sites running for this new store. The first is on the new domain, the site was purely set up to allow the client to start adding products. The second is on a spare domain for us to work on the site files, add the contributions etc. Unfortunately yesterday we discovered the [...]

So today we decided to start adding the contributions to the new site. Armed with my new file comparison software I made a list of the contributions needed and set to work adding them in to the site code. Contributions Used: Auto Thumbnailer More Pics Customer Title Purchase Without Account All went fine until I [...]

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 [...]

We’ve started the ball rolling on a new site for a client selling contempary gifts. They picked a template from the Templates page and we’ve started on the minor alterations to the design. The template is pretty nice and has so far been easy to edit. It has a nice slick design and breaks out [...]