Hot 100 Update - we have 100!
Written By Gary on Jul 10 2008 · Comments (1)

I haven't made a Hot 100 blog post for a while, so now is the time, particularly as we surpassed 100 extraordinary osCommerce sites! The other day I added a few more sites which brought the total to 101 - now I have to work out a way to only show the Top 100…
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osCommerce Template updated to RC
Written By Gary on May 15 2008 · Comments (0)

A quick post to let you know that I have now updated this well known theme to RC2.  This theme makes osCommerce look, act and feel totally different than normal. The basis of this theme is making everything easy to find.
The categories infoBox is "open", it has category tabs along the top and category subtabs […]

Top 100 Update
Written By Gary on May 03 2008 · Comments (0)

Haven't had an update for a good few weeks, so let's do that - the Top 100 osCommerce sites;
The Top 5 as at 9am on 3rd may 2008 are;

TexereSilk
Prodotti Tipici e vini piemontesi
Click A Deal
Breast Pumps Store
Arabella Miller

These are the 5 Hottest Stores right now, according to the votes ;)  What do you think?  Agree […]

Change Header Background Colour Per Category
Written By Gary on May 02 2008 · Comments (0)

Interesting questions posed at the osCommerce Forum;
i want to make the header color change when the visitor selects a main category. each main category should have it's own color.
My reply;
Use a switch on $current_category_id with a stylesheet named the same number.
In depth;

We know that $current_category_id gives the ID of the category that is currrently active. [...]

Information Pop Up - Cool Feature
Written By Gary on Apr 23 2008 · Comments (5)

I've been trying to make the front page of osCommerce a little less intimidating - it's my opinion that a typical osCommerce store is too "busy". What I wanted to do was find a way to have less information in the page, in other words make the page more bare.
A good way to do [...]

Got STS, Got the Tutorial - Now you need a Template
Written By Gary on Mar 31 2008 · Comments (0)

As readers will know, I spent some time the other day updating the STS eBook for 2008 - my own knowledge has come on leaps and bounds since I first wrote that STS Tutorial, and STS itself has had at least 2 or 3 major updates as well.
Now that the eBook is up to date, [...]

Top 100 osCommerce List Update
Written By Gary on Mar 30 2008 · Comments (2)

Another couple of sites added in the past few days;

VisionsXpressed
This one is a real work of art. Check out (no pun intended) the "1 page" checkout...
Baileys Men Wear

Which brings the total list of shops up to 71.  Only 29 more to go and then the lowest voted ones start to fal off the bottom [...]

Updated for 2008 - STS Templates - the original and best eBook on STS
Written By Gary on Mar 28 2008 · Comments (2)

I have just updated the original and best STS Template tutorial eBook over at oscbooks - have a read about it, and if you like what you see, please buy it from this page, not oscbooks. If you do buy it, I still have a special "BOGOF" promotion - Buy One Get One Free...
DO [...]

Top 100 osCommerce Sites Update
Written By Gary on Mar 18 2008 · Comments (0)

Another 3 great looking osCommerce Shops found and added today:

Latin Territory
Power Smart
Velvet Ego

And the Top 5 as at this moment in time are;

TexereSilk Online Store 6.9/10
Click A Deal 6.1/10
Templates Shop 6.0/10
IT Stuff 5.5/10
Assault Shirts 4.9/10

Go vote for your favourite shops at the osCommerce Hot 100. If you know of any great looking stores, submit them [...]

Another 4 sites added to the HOT 100
Written By Gary on Mar 11 2008 · Comments (1)

Another 4 sites have been added to the HOT 100 list, bring the grand total up to 54 best osCommerce sites.  We still have another 46 to go before the magic 100 is reached!
Todays additions are (in no particular order);

Kustom Tees
TexereSilk
3hmp3
Lewiskit

And the Top 5 best osCommerce Stores presently look like this:

TexereSilk
3hmp3
Assault Shirts
Kustom Tees
Punk Baby Clothes

Go [...]