The outfit of oscommerce

[porrier]

Hello!

 

In the old osCommerce Online Merchant v2.2 RC2a it was easy and nice to change the outfit of the shop mostly with

the help of the stylesheet.css

 

Now with osCommerce Online Merchant v2.3.4 this scheme changed and in most cases changing the stylesheet.css has no effect anymore. Some kind of themes are used and it is nearly impossible to set up a shop for the own liking.

 

No good idea to have it like this.

 

Is the a documentation available on how to handle the design of a shop?

 

Kind regards

 

Andreas

[MrPhil]

That's very strange. In osC 2.2, very little was controlled by CSS. Most of the styling was either hard coded CSS in the HTML, or table-driven layout. osC 2.3.4 was intended to heavily use CSS and be more easily changed with .css files (not necessarily just stylesheet.css).

 

Take a look at ThemeRoller for making style changes. There are also some online guides floating around that can help out -- I don't know where they are offhand, but the authors periodically publicize them. Look around this forum for mention of "styling guide" etc. and similar.

[porrier]

That's very strange. In osC 2.2, very little was controlled by CSS. Most of the styling was either hard coded CSS in the HTML, or table-driven layout. osC 2.3.4 was intended to heavily use CSS and be more easily changed with .css files (not necessarily just stylesheet.css).

 

Take a look at ThemeRoller for making style changes. There are also some online guides floating around that can help out -- I don't know where they are offhand, but the authors periodically publicize them. Look around this forum for mention of "styling guide" etc. and similar.

I remember in the old shop I had a heavily modified stylesheet.css. Now with version 2.3.4 I had to modify a jquery-ui-1.10.4.min.css, one long line of 25333 charakters, nearly impossible to handle and to understand. A redmond theme, what do I have to do with this? Most changes of the stylsheets.css like I used to do have no effect. That is not the way to go with osCommerce.

 

Kind regards

 

Andreas

[Jack_mcs]

It sounds like the previous shop had the STS addon installed. That allowed changing the look of the shop with a simple template. Other than that, the css file just handled some of the classes. Some of the css was coded into the files. For 2.3.4, you would need to use the theme roller as mentioned. The better choice is to use the BS version. 

 

Regarding editing the jquery-ui-1.10.4.min.css file, that "min" stands for minified or condensed. It is nearly impossible to edit such a file. Use the jquery-ui-1.10.4.css version to find the class you want to change and place that in your own css file and include it in your code. Then, later, if you want to change the look of the shop, just edit your file. 

[♥toyicebear]

You can easily create your own custom theme at: http://jqueryui.com/themeroller/

[♥14steve14]

Or use the community 2.3.4 bootstrap version. So much easier to change colours and styles of many things by just adding css rules to the user.css file. It will also make your site responsive against non responsive using the standard oscommerce version.

[PupStar]

Or use the community 2.3.4 bootstrap version. So much easier to change colours and styles of many things by just adding css rules to the user.css file. It will also make your site responsive against non responsive using the standard oscommerce version.

 

also if you are struggling with css then try this http://bootstrap-live-customizer.com/

 

it will make your life much easier.

[multimixer]

You could also try solutions offered by the osCommerce partners: https://www.oscommerce.com/Services&templates