Luscious Posted September 15, 2010 Posted September 15, 2010 Hi Everyone.........Get yourself a cuppa and I will start with my story. April 2009 a kind gentleman (??) told me he could help me rebuild my old website which was with Actinic but he would be using OS - He was going to charge me £1,000.00 for this (mates rates !!) He messed around with my old actinic site so that had to come down and a maintenance page displayed whilst he worked on this new site..............Disaster has happened. I have been left with a mess ( Since then I have been in hospital for 4 months, split up with my husband, going through a divorce and fighting for my house but just to add a little more stress to the mix I have decided I need to get this site and business back up and running online. Can anyone advise me of the following : 1) Do I just abort this project and start all over again although this time it would have to be my work as I am no longer in a position to spend money 2) Is there anyway I can rectifiy this site without having to go through the original guy I used ? I have my admin user name and password 3) If you do advise to abort is there a stress free way of building an online shop.............i dont mind sitting up all hours researching etc if it means I can get this project finished. Thank you for reading, hope you have not fallen asleep Jacqui xxx
♥geoffreywalton Posted September 15, 2010 Posted September 15, 2010 Hi Sounds like not a lot has gone right for you recently. Just to add to your troubles it looks like your original site has been hacked. I can't see why he had to "break" your original site whilst developing an osc site. Still what is done is done. It looks like the test site is a template so if you have a backup of your actinic site you could clear down the entire site and restore that and use it whilst you install and populate your template site. Steep learning curve but there is a lot of information and support on this forum. Lots of good basic info I found useful when learning about osc is in my profile. HTH G Need help installing add ons/contributions, cleaning a hacked site or a bespoke development, check my profile Virus Threat Scanner My Contributions Basic install answers. Click here for Contributions / Add Ons. UK your site. Site Move. Basic design info. For links mentioned in old answers that are no longer here follow this link Useful Threads. If this post was useful, click the Like This button over there ======>>>>>.
MasterShake2003 Posted September 15, 2010 Posted September 15, 2010 Hey Jacqui, I sent you a PM with some info. I have found an ebook that helped me A TON when designing my current (and first) osCommerce site. It might help you get things right from a fresh install.
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