Useable Admin Design?

[c0de]

question removed... building my own admin theme now...

[npn2531]

If you build a good one, be sure and post it. A well laid out and modern looking admin would be a great contribution. Lots of people build OSC carts for clients, and it frankly the OSC commerce admin, even though it works fine, is just not professional looking.

[c0de]

Sure i will post!

(i Love OpenSource i puplish nearly everything i do ^^)

 

i really like this Produkt, but there are so many Small things i hate... really hate!

 

For example, i get the category listings as table... why?????

thats so ugly to design... and its very ugly in source...

 

a other thing are empty space images... or useless <br> what only makes it fu**ing unuseably for me...

 

I'm a Webdesigner using modern solutions, what means for me i can rebuild MANY things bevore i can say this is ok...

 

Some classes like "infobox_heading" are also in the content, so i have to build extra hacks to get them a different look.

 

Why had the prices in the boxes not an own class? How should i design them without changing the Whole source?

 

And no build in Seo...

 

i would have a bad conscience when i give this to my costumer like it is, and i dont would link it in my portfolio couse its embarrassing...

 

So at the end i will may have a complete and modern Fork of oscommerce ^^

 

EDIT:// Cant edit my First Post, is there maybe an Alpha 3 Design for RC2? couse this would look nearly sexy!

[♥toyicebear]

You might find these of interest:

 

OSC 2 CSS

 

Mindsparx Admin

[npn2531]

c0de,

 

To better understand the infobox_heading and how to apply CSS to the price, take a good look a includes/classes/boxes.php. That's where the box heading and layout for the boxes are generated. It's a mess of nested tables but if you get a good handle on that file, how it is applied to the rest of the cart, you will be a long way toward being an OSCommerce design expert.

 

There are, however, a variety of contributions that offer more design-friendly CSS alternatives to this ancient table structure in includes/classes/boxes.php and the cart overall. ToyIce Bear posted one:

 

http://addons.oscommerce.com/info/7263 (OSC to CSS)

 

another I have used in the past, simply strips the table structure from the infoboxes.

 

http://addons.oscommerce.com/info/6378

 

Also their are some really good contributions that deal very nicely with the category menu tree in the categories box. Perhaps someone else familiar with them will post where to find them.

[c0de]

Hey you both!

 

You might find these of interest:

OSC 2 CSS

Now i hacked everything which was terrible already, but thx!

Now i have a very good survey over the Script too, so it was a nice experience, also when my costumer dont will pay that time :lol:

 

Mindsparx Admin

That is fu**ing Awsome!

Its looking sooo sexy, why didnt i find this? and i searched a lot... But now i have it! THX!

[npn2531]

You may have picked up on this, it took me forever to, but when you see stuff like:

 

new productListingBox($info_box_contents);

 

(This is found on catalog/shopping_cart.php)

 

It is referring back to the function of the same name in includes/classes/boxes.php.

 

You'll find for example:

 

new infoBox($info_box_contents);

 

in each of the boxes in the folder includes/boxes. Again this is referring back to the structure in includes/classes/boxes.php, and is building the box structure.

 

Hope this helps.

[c0de]

hey again!

 

Thx, but im using STS as Template System, so this looks kind of different for me...

 

But its ok, it wasnt so Hard like i have thought bevore... Now i am a real Fan of this Shop System!

And when somebody would ask for a Good Webshop, i would say as fast as possible: "OSCommerce!" :thumbsup:

 

Greets

[npn2531]

What's nice about OSC, if you can get past the initial look of it, and lack of features, is that it is so accessible. Compare to Magento for example. OSC is a pretty understandable, relatively speaking, and you can add virtually any feature, anything you can think of is probably already a contribution, or you can make it look anyway you like, once you dump the table structure.