How to customize?

[Guest]

Excuse my ignorance here, but I just successfully installed oscommerce, went through the complete online guide here and got my store backend customized, however I'm a little lost on what to do next. I read through as much of the online guide as I could, but didnt see any clear cut instructions on how to customize the actual site, outside of the store. I need to actually create the front end of my store and the shell of the site, but I cant figure out where to do it.

 

Do I need to manually edit some of the php files? If so, how do I know which ones? I will need to have different designs and "shells" for certain pages within my site, so how would I program one set of html headers, footers, columns, etc. for the main page for instance, another set a different section of my website, etc.?

 

Are there also commands that I add into my html to call certain things, for instance, in my index.html page page to tell the users what is in their shopping cart, links to certain products/ categories, etc.? I'm a bit lost here on how to further customize the look of my site. Thanks for any help!

[MagickWomyn]

Try this:

 

http://www.oscommerce.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=139426

 

HTH

[bkellum]

:thumbsup: Better yet, try this:

 

http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,1524

 

Simple Template System 4.3.3 will allow you to create HTML templates for any page or all pages in your site along with templates for your infoboxes, products, etc.

[superbogel]

thx for the usefull post mate :D