Hello & Can someone point me in the right direction(s)?

[Truebador]

Hi all,

 

It's been several years since I've done more than just your meat and potatoes variety html sites, and though the concepts behind OSC, CSS, php, etc., are not foreign to me or beyond me, the sheer immensity of what I'm about to do is nevertheless DAUNTING.

 

I have a site to build. It will sell fine arts prints, originals, greeting cards, and related merchandise. In addition, I want to incorporate several other scripts for overall functionality of the site. Here's what I have so far:

 

OSC as my base app.

Coppermine for image gallery for the fine arts prints/originals

Sendcard for the e-card (note: some of these cards must be free, some must be for sale only (minimal pricing)

MJGuest for guestbook function

 

Paypal and check/MO are the only payment options at this point

There are approx. 50 fine art products

40 or so e-cards

I'll worry about the misc. after I tackle these

 

OK...

 

I have a multiple .gif overall site background that I designed, sliced and optimized with fireworks. I want to have a homogenous color/image interplay over the whole site. I have about a week to finish this thing, so..

 

Can someone (or sometwo or three) be so wonderful as to tell me where my obvious starting point is? I'd gladly give any major part of anatomy for help on this :D

 

Thanks,

 

Joseph

[Truebador]

After seeing such great response to the vast majority of issues and topics here on the forum, I tought it would be the place to get a starting point. Is anyone up to the task of guiding me in this? Of course you're capable!! That's why you answer these posts :)

 

Is what I'm trying to do doable? Is it doable with a different do than what I'm looking at doing?

 

dee doo doo doo....

 

(sorry)

 

Joseph

[Wetpants]

www.apex-internet.com/download/forms/oscommerce_basic_modification_guide.pdf

[brianstorm]

are Coppermine , Sendcard & MJGues separate programs? if so, considering that you don't know much about what you are doing it may be best looking for oscommerce contributions that do the same thing.... there is a paypal payment module builtin

[Truebador]

Hi again, and thank you for your answers.

 

Wetpants,

 

the guide has been quite helpful. I'd already started hammering into the code to try to work out the conventions, syntax, etc. and it's been a crash course in php (reminds me of my days with BASIC, then Pascal, then VB and Lisp). I think the guide is great in that it gives a visual to 'where things go' I wish I had more time to offer the documentation project some help...

 

 

Brian,

 

Yes, Coppermine, Sendcard and MJGuest are all separate scripts. I'd hoped there might be someone who'd already tangled with one or any of them that might offer some tips, etc. When I start a new project like this, I always, like water and like electricity, try to find the path of Least. Saves time and you don't reinvent so many wheels. I'll look into the contributions and see what there is.

 

Coppermine is a full featured image gallery script, suitable for artists' and photographers galleries, but it also handles video, music and rich content formats, so, it's pretty flexible.

 

Sendcard is an e-card script that has most of the features I'd hoped for (with learning more about php, etc., however, I MIGHT be able to sneak in features of my own)

 

MJGuest is a pop-up guestbook script.

 

Do you know of anything in contributions that might take the place of any or all these? I'd be glad to check/test them :)

 

 

Again, Thank you both for your help!!

 

Joseph