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How to install the osCommerce Hook system
Friday, October 30, 2015
This is a quick explanation about how to install the osCommerce "hook system". It will be standard in the next osCommerce versions, but you can start using it on your existing store of series 2.3.xx right now. -
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Nice css tooltips for your store
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
It is really easy to create nice tooltips in your osCommerce store and to provide additional information to your store visitors. No complicated coding, you'll be done in 2 minutes -
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Make all your buttons primary
Friday, November 2, 2012
An in-depth explanation to help you understand the primary/secondary buttons appearance in osCommerce and a quick tip to make them all look same -
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Streamline your checkout process in osCommerce
Saturday, June 23, 2012
This is a quick tip that will help you to skip the checkout shipping and checkout payment pages if you have only one shipping or payment option enabled. Complete code to copy paste -
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Add more buttons to your osCommerce header
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Read here how to add more buttons to your stores header, just beside the existing "cart", "checkout" and "my account" buttons. It's very easy to do, try it out -
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Styling the breadcrumb area in osCommerce
Monday, February 13, 2012
The so called "breadcrumb trail" is the part on top of your osCommerce store showing the path to the actual location of the store the visitor is in. Read here how to style it by just adding a couple of lines to your stylesheet.css file -
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Add a remove button to the shopping cart page
Thursday, January 5, 2012
In version 2.3.1 of osCommerce, there is no remove button for items placed into the shopping cart, but a plain text link. Read here how to replace this with a nice button in same style of all other store buttons -
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jQuery tips: Rounded corners for osCommerce boxes
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
This is a quick and easy way to add rounded corners to your osCommerce boxes using jQuery and styling them with a couple of simple css rules. Easy as 123, try it out. -
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Styling the modules on the product information page in osCommerce
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
If you like to change the look of one - or all - the modules on your product information page, keep on reading, it's really very simple. You will need less time than for drinking a coffee -
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Create a google AdSense box for your osCommerce store
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
If you like the idea of having a box on your store displaying google ads, then here is the way to do it. But honestly, if your store doesn't make enough money, you should focus on that, or start advertising for the store and not on the store -
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Move social bookmarks to the product information body
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Read how to move the social bookmark links into the body of the product information page in osCommerce. It's very easy and useful in case you don't have any columns in your store -
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Using @font-face in osCommerce
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
It belongs already to a kind of a standard in web design to use custom fonts instead of the so called "web sefe" fonts. It looks like the osCommerce world didn't heard about this yet. This is a short explanation on how to do it for your store -
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How to add google analytics to your osCommerce store
Monday, June 6, 2011
Adding google analytics to your osCommerce store became in version 2.3.1 a very easy process: There are no files to edit or any code to add to anywhere. All you have to do is to install the module in your administration panel. -
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Equal height for osCommerce product listing boxes
Friday, March 18, 2011
What to do if you want an equal height for all your product listing boxes in osCommerce? Read here what I did using jQuery. It's a simple fast and clean solution, easy to use for anyone -
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How to change the width of your osCommerce store keeping the 960 grid system
Monday, January 17, 2011
osCommerce, in it's latest version 2.3.1, has a fixed width of 960 pixels. Do you need to change this? You can have any store width and change it any time. Read here how. -
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How to upgrade your jQuery UI version in osCommerce
Thursday, January 6, 2011
If you want to pick a new UI theme for your store, you will notice that jQuery UI upgraded their version, and that means that, if you want to get a new ui theme, you have to upgrade the ui version that is used in osCommerce too. Read here how -
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Separating data from execution in osCommerce boxes
Monday, January 3, 2011
Let's say you want to access the data of a box in osCommerce without having the box being "executed", that means in this case, added to the left or right column. There are several reasons to do this. Read here why and how to do it -
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How to get a new theme for your osCommerce store
Thursday, December 2, 2010
Do you want to change your store's buttons? Nothing more easy than that. Read here how to change the style of your buttons and information boxes and how to get a new color scheme for your store in minutes -
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How to set backgrounds to your store in osCommerce
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
You may want to set a background color for the whole page and keep the main content area of your store in white. Read here how to do it very easy. In the same way you can add imagers. borders, shadows or whatever you like -
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Prepare for osCommerce. All you need to know before you start
Saturday, November 27, 2010
You decided to use osCommerce. That's great, because osCommerce is one of the best ecommerce systems available. How to start? Let's take everything from the very beginning -
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Add customers phone and email to the order confirmation email
Friday, November 26, 2010
The order confirmation email contains all kind of information except customers phone and email. Want to have customers phone and email in there too? It's really easy to do and won't cost you more than 2 minutes -
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Add customers phone to the contact us form in osCommerce
Friday, November 26, 2010
The "contact us" form consist in osCommerce of 3 fields: name, email and enquiry. How about adding customers phone number to the form? You can add any other input field you need, even drop down's radio buttons and checkboxes. -
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Make a nice header for your store in osCommerce v2.3.1
Thursday, November 25, 2010
Making a nice header for your store is really easy in osCommerce v2.3.1 Read how you can change the look and feel of your store's header in 3 minutes without touching any php file. Copy paste the solution if you like or be creative and make your own -
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Adding a quantity input field to the product information page
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Do you want your customers to add any quantity to their cart right on the product information page? Read this. A detailed article on how to add a quantity input field to your product information page in osCommerce.
