How to change layout and add meta tags/keywords

[rbresnik]

I am new to php, but I was able to install my store using oscommerce. I see alot of the example sites and some of them look totally different than the default template, including links, keywords and tags. Where exactly do you make changes and add keywords in the php files? How do you change the look and feel of the site?

[m477]

I am new to php, but I was able to install my store using oscommerce. I see alot of the example sites and some of them look totally different than the default template, including links, keywords and tags. Where exactly do you make changes and add keywords in the php files? How do you change the look and feel of the site?

If you already have your site designed and coded then its quite easy.

 

Open up the two files header.php and footer.php in the osC includes folder. Copy the top half of your html code down to where your content starts basically over the top of the html code already in header.php, and do similarly for the footer. Those are the two main files that control the style and the look of your cart.

 

To adjust the look of menus also edit colum_left.php and column_right.php in the includes folder.

 

To change the look of text I would suggest just editing the current stylesheet.css file and changing the colours and fonts to suit your needs rather than creating a whole new stylesheet and replacing each class manually.

 

Once you get the hang of it its quite easy to do.