You want a FREE osCommerce Template for RC2 ?
Written By Gary on Mar 14 2008 · Comments (41)
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Ade asks;
Do you know of free templates for the latest rc2 of oscommerce?
Put simply, I don't – for starters there are not that many outfits who are yet supporting RC2 and those that are charge a fair amount.
However, I've struck a deal to offer you this template:
For NOTHING!!!
This is an instant download, and you install this yourself by doing the following;
- install a new RC2 osCommerce
- upload the files supplied when you buy this green template!
- if you cannot manage this, I can install for you – see the readme file
Enjoy!
What about the oscommerce logo it looks crap. What can be done about it?
Comment by Fredo — March 20, 2008 @ 12:06 pm
Fredo – you need to make a logo for your shop and then just replace the oscommerce.gif with your own. A nice place to make a "web 2" style logo is creatr – I made the Club osCommerce Logo using that tool.
Comment by Gary — March 20, 2008 @ 12:11 pm
Installed easy on RC1 thanks
Comment by Carl — March 20, 2008 @ 8:09 pm
after replacing my osCommerce files with these ones i got white screen.
Comment by SoWhat — March 20, 2008 @ 8:53 pm
Carl – thanks for the feedback
SoWhat – usually means an error somewhere. Suggest to start over.
Comment by Gary — March 20, 2008 @ 11:06 pm
You have a good handle on css. I have been playing with css and oscommerce on goodcoffeedirect.com. Since it is a live site I am going slow on revamping. Breakage happens, as you know.
Comment by Wolf Halton — March 25, 2008 @ 4:42 pm
Thanks Wolf
Indeed beakage can happen. What I do is make all my sites on localhost. I'll write up a blog post about that tomorrow.
Comment by Gary — March 25, 2008 @ 4:58 pm
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Pingback by Club osCommerce » Is osCommerce right for me? — March 29, 2008 @ 5:51 pm
i get a Fatal error: Cannot instantiate non-existent class: infobox1 in /includes/boxes/categories.php on line 151
any idea how to fix it
Comment by vinnie — March 31, 2008 @ 11:46 pm
Vinnie – infobox1 is not used in this template, so you have amended categories.php before or after installing the template. Go back through all the contributions you tried and find the one which is about categories infoBox.
Comment by Gary — April 1, 2008 @ 8:44 am
Hello. Thank you for your contribution, this green theme is great! there is couple things. I am trying to install your green theme and got 2 questions:
1. on the first page right columns top is not attached to the green. There is a white space between the top of the right column and a header. looks not symmetric compare to left column. how to fix this?
2. can i change a bkg images and keep your link?
thank you.
Comment by Nan — April 9, 2008 @ 8:30 pm
Nan
1. When you change the text in your pages, the design should fit exactly.
2. The link must be kept on any site that uses the design or any part thereof.
Cheers, Gary
Comment by Gary — April 10, 2008 @ 8:42 am
en la cabecera aparece un 0 como lo puedo eliminar.
atte
jaime santander
Comment by jaime — May 1, 2008 @ 10:06 pm
Jaime – vea un 1 – agregar a la cesta…2 3 4 5 6 …
Comment by Gary — May 1, 2008 @ 10:20 pm
This has now been updated, please download the bug fixed file at http://addons.oscommerce.com/info/5830
Comment by Gary — May 7, 2008 @ 6:54 pm
I have a white space next to the cart contents only on the index page all other pages are fine, its a fresh install with os then the green template. How can I fix this.
Comment by richard — May 7, 2008 @ 10:23 pm
You mean you didn't really mean this: "Best look at buying from templatemonster, I guess." isn't true ?
Try removing the table full of crap that is standard on the index page when you first install osCommerce.
Comment by Gary — May 7, 2008 @ 10:43 pm
No need for templatemonster now, this fits perfectly, thankyou.
Comment by richard — May 8, 2008 @ 9:25 pm
Is the "free" offer over? I can't find the download from the link? Anyway I can get this?
Comment by Corey — June 24, 2008 @ 4:49 am
Looks like it's been removed from the osCommerce Add on section. No idea why. Oh well.
Comment by Gary — June 24, 2008 @ 7:33 am
Anyone have another link they can share?
Comment by Corey — June 24, 2008 @ 12:38 pm
Corey – I'll see if I can dig it out and repost it.
Comment by Gary — June 25, 2008 @ 1:47 pm
This theme looks great! But uhh…where can I download it? I couldn't find it from the link above. I would be willing to host it on my site if you wanted!
Please let me know where I could find this. I would love to mess with it. Thanks!
Comment by Levi Blackman — October 2, 2008 @ 4:46 pm
Levi – I have no idea why it was removed from the contributions section of the oscommerce website. I'll see if I can find the download and package it again.
Comment by Gary — October 3, 2008 @ 9:58 am
Gary,
is it possible slightly modify this template to make it the same look as previous free template for MS2? There was just background around layout, no top bar.
Comment by Alex — December 23, 2008 @ 1:03 pm
Gary,
where to find free osCommerce 2.2RC2 full width template? The most commercial templates I seen is fixed width templates(narrow), with heavy graphics. I need something clean style.
Comment by Alex — December 23, 2008 @ 10:42 pm
Hi,
is this download still available?
I get sent to the oscommerce community web page, but can't find your product there.
I have tried searched with your product # ,your name, & I'm still not getting it.
Thanks for the 'buy me a beer' set up w/ PP.
I've been thinking of doing the same thing & it was good to see how it all works out.
I'll buy you a beer when we get this all straightened out.K?
I'll also link back to you on my marketing site..
thanks again..looking forward to getting this soon so i can get my site up..,
K
Comment by kar — January 13, 2009 @ 10:25 pm
I don't know why it was removed from the osCommerce Contributions area.
Here is a download link: https://www.digitalproductdelivery.com/buy/602
It is free of charge.
Comment by Gary — January 14, 2009 @ 11:07 am
This is a JOKE.
You only change the background colour to GREEN from WHITE.
This is the default OS Commerce TEMPLATE
Try again but dont try to fool a human
Comment by Aime — March 7, 2009 @ 1:19 pm
Aime – you are a fool. If you don't understand why free templates get released…
Comment by Gary — March 8, 2009 @ 12:13 pm
Aime is not a fool, you are for thinking this is some custom template. she is right, all you did was alter a few lines of CSS.
Try moving products around in the content area.. try increasing the padding and altering the layout of the template.
Any FOOL can edit a few lines of CSS.
so congrats.
Comment by Yung23 — August 31, 2010 @ 9:38 pm
yUNG23. Hahaha. Another person who has never contributed anything to osCommerce who knows it all
Comment by Gary — September 1, 2010 @ 10:08 am
Whether he has contributed to OSC has nothing to do with the fact that he is absolutely correct that's just a few tweaks to the CSS. Of course you'd have to offer it free; you haven't changed a thing.
Comment by Faltzer — September 1, 2010 @ 3:29 pm
Troll! Haha. Chris, why bother?
Comment by Gary — September 1, 2010 @ 3:35 pm
Who are you calling a troll?
Comment by Faltzer — September 1, 2010 @ 4:15 pm
If you had looked at the template, there is more than a few css tweaks, however as you well know, templating in osCommerce is far from straightforward. It also seems that you do not understand the differences between "GPL" and "Free".
I can take osCommerce and charge a million dollars for it if I wish – whether anyone would pay it is a different matter. I can give it away (free or otherwise) and that is the right that GPL gives me and anyone else.
So, I am calling your few recent posts on this blog as Troll, designed only to get a reaction. What reaction you want, I have no idea – is it working?
Comment by Gary — September 1, 2010 @ 4:28 pm
The fact that you haven't changed anything besides a few colors is the entire reason why you shouldn't be advertising the fact that this is all for free, nor even consider charging for it. Never in my comment did I mention licensing, so that's a red herring and moot point. You haven't bothered to formally dispute that, and instead you called the two previous commentators "fools," like a little child who doesn't know how to rationalize or talk without sounding like it's vs. the world.
You seem to have this habit of calling every response that you don't like, a "troll." – I'm not posting to get your reaction; I'm posting because I have something legit to say. Just because this is your blog doesn't mean everything you say is valid and warranted. You closed a discussion that was just starting to make an arbitrary and factually incorrect statement as a jab and last word.
Comment by Faltzer — September 1, 2010 @ 6:18 pm
I called you a Troll (you well know the reason why), I've never called anyone else a Troll. I called one other person a fool for not understanding why basic templates are made available by businesses who sell other more advanced templates.
My point about GPL is entirely valid, as is every word I say on this blog – equally every word you say, other than swearing and general nastiness.
There is nothing free in this world, you know this just as well as I do. I am free to charge precisely what I wish for any of my works – from giving it away gratis, to expecting a gift in return, to expecting payment – people then have the right to decide if the price being charged is suitable, if not, they go elsewhere and that's a good thing.
I closed a discussion for the very first time as it was getting abusive, and I don't have the time for that. Note that calling someone a "fool", "child", "troll" is not abusive, more to the point swearing and general nastiness, then conversations going around in circles. Pointless.
I'm still not quite sure why you feel the need to visit this blog, are you waiting for my write up on why or why not SUIT should be used with osCommerce?
Comment by Gary — September 2, 2010 @ 3:46 pm
Your point on GPL has no bearing on this, therefore invalid as a rebuttal. You're the only one who brought up licensing to begin with, which no one else was concerned about except you. Nothing is stopping from charging for this, but that doesn't mean your reasoning for it is at all justifiable. A few CSS tweaks to a layout you didn't even build from ground up should barely warrant a price change. It's like me taking your website's design, changing the background from green to red and then wanting to charge $1500 for it.
Your logic is that I'm a troll because I'm a troll. You're doing the same thing to me that you did to Brandon. You labeled me hesitantly with no justifying statement. Just because you can state something doesn't mean it's correct simply because you say it. What makes you think that a statement made with no basis or support to fall on is at all valid? Answer that question; I dare you to. When you call someone a fool, you are calling them stupid, which is an insult. When you insult someone, you're being abusive, therefore you are being abusive. For a programmer, you sure don't speak as logically as you lay out machine code, which is disappointing. When you first came into the thread I started on the forum, I respected you for a second because I thought you were the only sane person in the thread. I lost my respect for you for you making the irrational remarks you did in the previous discussion. Right now, you just squeezed out every ounce respect I ever could have built for you.
The demonstration just about destroyed every previous argument you and everyone else had made, leaving no real argument to fall back on, so there wouldn't be a point to writing up an article about it, not forgetting that I would destroy your arguments. If you want to get technical, I am here because I can be, and because I'm an OSC user, thus I care about what goes on. There's no other reason why you'd have recurring visitors to this site.
Comment by Faltzer — September 3, 2010 @ 2:11 am
If I have been abusive to anyone, I apologise right now. As for respecting me, I don't care about that. I think that you have valid points to make, but the way that you make them is rubbing people the wrong way.
By the way, that template was free of charge – so I'm still not quite sure why you are bringing up the question of it being charged for. As I pointed out, it is my right to charge for whatever I want to charge for – I am not a charity. You can take my website and change it to red and charge $1500 for it if you wish.
"What makes you think that a statement made with no basis or support to fall on is at all valid?" – like everything said here, every word by everyone is valid – it might be that I or you or whoever does not agree and as such that can be pointed out in a way that changes the viewpoint of the other. As it is, resorting to swearing and nastiness to get your point across doesn't really do it, I think. Making comments that have zero input to the conversation are Troll: "and you call yourself a programmer" ?? I deleted that post as it added nothing, and in fact I never did call myself a programmer.
I will write why people should not use SUIT in any application at some point very soon, though not on this blog as it is not going to have any relevance to osCommerce.
No more circular discussion, or this thread will also be locked. Why not use your own blog or forum ?
Comment by Gary — September 3, 2010 @ 10:01 am
No, not everything that everyone says is valid; case in-point, you admitting that you were being abusive despite making an invalid statement claiming otherwise. You obviously don't know what the difference between a SPAM comment and a troll is based on that comment, which was not even close to the definition of a troll. I suggest you familiarize yourself with the definitions of such terms before using them.
I don't care if you charge for this or not; I'm telling you how stupid of an idea it is to charge for something for simple modifications that people make in 15 minutes with no cost at all.
I'd LOVE to see this article of yours and on what basis you'd be making it on. When you get around to it, post a link so I can de-piece your arguments both in comments and in a formal blog response.
Comment by Faltzer — September 3, 2010 @ 5:49 pm