In Your Opinion What Are The Best And Most Be Contributions?

[yos40]

This is topic is dedicated to help all the begineers and new installers to know what they should add to their stores

Please write why you think the contribution is importet and give a link to it.

 

In my opinion

 

This a must be on any site!

 

Header tags for novices Link

Seach Engine Friendly URL link

If you wont be visible you will spend allot of money in advertising!

[nursallie]

This is topic is dedicated to help all the begineers and new installers to know what they should add to their stores

Please write why you think the contribution is importet and give a link to it.

 

In my opinion

 

This a must be on any site!

 

Header tags for novices Link

Seach Engine Friendly URL link

If you wont be visible you will spend allot of money in advertising!

 

 

OOOh , this is a good question, I hope someone replies....

(I am a newbie)

[Guest]

OOOh , this is a good question, I hope someone replies....

(I am a newbie)

 

To be honest i think this question has been answered before, i have been using oscommerce about 6 months now and im still learning.

 

I think what you have to decide is what is important for you on the site.

 

Good guidelines say install as few mods as you need, that means less database transactions and speedier load times as you are not downloading as much code.

 

Ultimate SEO Urls by a guy called (on here) chemo is a good mod

http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contri...ch,ultimate+seo

 

Also i use header tag controller to control my keywords, descriptions, title tags etc

 

http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contri...+tag+controller

 

The above two will help a little with SEO, but to be honest id put as much effort as you can into making sure you have good content.

 

Another SEO tool is to have a sitemap, there are a couple ive used

 

One called dynamic sitemap

http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contri.../search,sitemap

 

and this one which does products (for me is more valuable currently)

http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contri.../search,sitemap

 

So a bit of choice there.

 

You could go on to be honest, what you have to do is figure out what you want in the site, and then visit

 

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

 

Then put in the search what you are looking for

 

Other useful things to look into include

 

Google / Froogle xml feeds

Picture management (this is a must)

There is also a thread on here about speeding up your transactions, which is worth a read and will introduce you to what you need to do

 

http://www.oscommerce.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=119077

[jasonabc]

Depends on the store - but:

 

Featured Products

Product Listing in Columns

Discount Codes and Gift Vouchers (CCGV trad)

Search in product descriptions

Attribute Sets Plus

QT Pro

 

are ones i usually can't live without ;-)

[spax]

All those mentioned above, plus:

 

A thumbnail contribution - Definate, must have.

Or MoPics - Depending on what you need.

Or Dynamic MoPics - If you need more than 6 (I think) images per product.

Image Sub-Categories - Keeps everything in its place.

SPPC - If you have a need for it, this is a quality contribution.

SPPC Bolt Ons - As above.

More Categories - Not a must have but really handy for manipulating category listings.

Chemo's Query Debug - Excellent tool for database optimising.

Infact, Chemo - Such a vast knowledge base. Such a waste!

[yos40]

I allso think that it is very important at least for us in the USA is accurate Shipping moduls

Like the UPS and DHL ones