How to integrate/connect website from roses.com with stores.roses.com with

[krishnakranthi]

Hi,

 

I am new to Oscommerce, I have installed oscommerce and my site is up with the default view and products like store.roses.com.

 

Now generally anyone will go to the home page, www.roses.com. But Oscommerce is installed at stores.roses.com. So my question is

 

1) How to connect www.roses.com to stores.roses.com?

2) Instead of installing Oscommerce to stores.roses.com, can't I install such a way that all features show up on www.roses.com

 

Please help me and thanks for your response.

[Guest]

Krishna,

 

Usually your landing page(s) are only information and then you would create a link to your osCommerce installation for your customers to shop online. However, you are using a hosted service for your current store with a shopping cart already integrated. So, the question is, why would you want ANOTHER shopping cart ?

 

 

Chris

[krishnakranthi]

Thanks a lot, Chris for your response

 

I actually didn't understand your question on the hosted service. I am using hostgator services and installed Oscommerce through it.

And I am sorry I typed the website names wrongly here. My website name is www.roses34.com and Oscommerce is installed and I see it at http://store.roses34.com/

[multimixer]

You can do 2 things

 

1) Install osCommerce directly to the root (the folder where your index.html is now), that's your "top" folder. Right now you have it in folder /store/

2) Make a redirect from roses34.com to store.roses34.com, so that anyone who type in roses34.com will go automatically to the store. You can do this via your host cPanel

[krishnakranthi]

Thanks a lot, George, I guess your option 1 sounds better. And is this how everyone does while creating ecommerce website?

 

this is the first time I am trying to create a ecommerce website, so I am new to this. Also Any tutorial on this would help me. Thanks again

[Guest]

Thanks a lot, George, I guess your option 1 sounds better. And is this how everyone does while creating ecommerce website?

 

this is the first time I am trying to create a ecommerce website, so I am new to this. Also Any tutorial on this would help me. Thanks again

 

 

osCommerce is a complete ecommerce solution in that you don't need 'front end' for it. You could create a template for osCommerce that looks similar to your current HTML site and then load the products, prices, payment methods and shipping / delivery methods.

 

 

 

Chris

[krishnakranthi]

Thanks Chris, I didnt know that templates are available. Thats the reason I was using site builder to build the front page and then direct to the oscommerce pages. I ll try as u said. Thanks again.

[Guest]

Krishna,

 

As an alternative to a commercial template (you pay for it) you may want to consider Theme Roller which allows you to create themes for free that can be applied to your website.

 

 

 

Chris

[krishnakranthi]

Thanks again Chris. In general are there any sequence of steps on how to create a simple ecommerce website on my own

[multimixer]

You have already a "simple ecommerce website", the default template.

 

There are several things you can do, starting from changing the ui theme using themeroller (link above) and some basic css like the background etc.

 

From there on you can start modifying header and footer, that are both in folder catalog/includes

 

Doing this, your site will look already much different. I have a couple of tips on my blog (link via my profile) and there are also some good topics here, like a "roadmap" and "basics for design"

[krishnakranthi]

Thanks George, will do that

[krishnakranthi]

Theme Roller is amazing just installed it and I can see the difference. I am slowly getting used to the code. BTW how do I change the background color, can I also get templates for the same. For example in my website roses34.com, the background is completely white. I want to make it to some color and add borders and other things. Please let me know. Thanks again

[multimixer]

Krishna, for most of the changes you don't need any extensive code changes, the most you can do in a file called stylesheet.css

 

As said, take a look at "roadmap" and "basics for design" and also to here regarding backgrounds

[krishnakranthi]

Wow. great...thanks a lot George. There are so many helpful people in this community which is great :).