Todays project was pretty hardcore, as part of an overall larger project that is ongoing. Client sells a range of products that need to be treated in different ways (particularly for postage)… In essence, the products are either “live” or “dry”. Think in terms of a product such as live Coral, or a dry product… Read More »
A guest post from Matt over at www.sweetnessandlight.com – purveyor of chocolate and other goodies. Selecting a bunch of products to create 1 overall product When you need your customers to be able to choose from a variety of products to create one final product to add to their cart, you will find that the… Read More »
There are a couple of Terms and Conditions addons floating about, but I decided that none of them were quite suitable for the needs of my latest client. What the client wanted is three-fold; 1. Have a link in the checkout_confirmation page, which, when clicked pops up the Terms and Conditions for the buyer to… Read More »
In this blog post I’m going to show how to add a dialog “cart contents” popup to the breadcrumb area of the theme made in the 2.3.1 Design eBook. First of all, I’ll show you a couple of images… The “cart summary” link in the right hand side of the breadcrumb; And the Dialog Box… Read More »
Been a bit quiet here and elsewhere recently, so thought I would make a splash return by writing up a new eBook for oscbooks.com Designing 2.3.1 – The Complete How To This eBook takes you on a journey from standard out of the box 2.3.1 to a site which is completely different and very good… Read More »
Had a potential client contact me who had purchased a Template Monster osCommerce template. “oh no”, thought I. The client had some good ideas to try to make the template less like a template and more to their own design. The majority of changes took place in the header and footer files (including the template_*… Read More »
Upcoming project is to take the Mega Drop Down Menu of Soh Tanaka and integrate it into osCommerce. It is very straightforward in basic HTML (I managed to get it working within a couple of minutes) based on the examples given, but because I want the category structure to come direct from the database I… Read More »
I thought it might be interesting for you to “watch” a template build as I do it. So what I will do is screenshot every so often so you can see how it is coming on. This is a mockup that I am going to attempt to come close to; After I am finished, I… Read More »
For the build I’ve been working on for the last couple of days, a really nice feature is a message that shows when the buyer adds something to their cart. Basically it’s a reinforcement of the action they just took; Let me know what you think. The code is based on the last added product… Read More »
Over the next couple of days, I’ve been tasked to recreate the look/theme of a Magento site, to osCommerce. In addition, I also will port as many of the features as I can (given the complexity of code and time frame). One of the features on the Magento site is a “quick add to cart”… Read More »