Guest Posted February 26, 2007 Posted February 26, 2007 As a newbee myself, I thought I could use contributions as a quick way to get my osC up and running. While contributions are a good thing in their own right, they definitely are not for us folks who have no programming knowledge! Like drugs nowadays, contributions can cause more side-effects than the contribution is worth. I have come pretty far in understanding how the various elements in osC work, but not without having to go back and re-install pages and starting from scratch. Having said that, the best thing you can do with your website is to BACKUP your database at least once a day. You can always recover your database if something goes wrong with a contribution install. You may have to re-edit some pages, but the time you save with database BACKUP is well worth the 30 seconds or so it takes to BACKUP. Like all of us, I'm in a big hurry to get my website up and running so I can start marketing and advertising. The problem with hurrying is that I start getting confused about what I need to do first. What I need to do first is learn how osC works, even if it means delaying my website publication. Contributions add a significant wall of confusion to the learning process, and while the authors are sincere in their efforts to streamline and enhance the osC storefronts, many times they unknowingly leave bugs in the contributions. Then people like you and I come along and get bit by those bugs and are left dazed, to try and figure out what went wrong. My advice--as a newbee like you--is to stay away from contributions until you are comfortable with the elements of the basic osCommerce installation. You'll thank yourself in the long run! Rock and Roll, Frank biggrin.gif
Philth Posted February 26, 2007 Posted February 26, 2007 Great advice!! I plan to just install the basic to start off with and then build up gradually. Cheers! Philth
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