Firstly, I want to thank for your great e-books. I have a new client
which will be my first osCommerce venture and needed a quick overview of
things with regards to the layout. Your 'How to make osCommerce look
like a million dollars…' ebook was great.
Good stuff! thanks very much to that buyer for the feedback provided!
The […]
Someone was wondering about how to stop people inputting fake email addresses when buying from an osCommerce Store. There is no way to do it, at present;
There is a banned emails contribution that I coded up, which can help to weed out fraudsters and fakers.
There is an option in Admin to turn on DNS […]
During an email conversation yesterday with Harald where I was attempting to find out the reason for the recent problems, this quote from Harald randomly cropped up:
If you want to cry and moan about the way we manage the project on your blog, you're most certainly welcome to.
I'm guessing that this is the official osCommerce […]
As regular readers of this Blog will know, I was turned down for Corporate Sponsorship on the basis of a personal issue. As that was the case, I wanted to cancel my personal sponsorship of the Community.
I emailed Harald, and this was done on July 26th. It took 16 days for him to […]
I was thinking about reasons why commercial providers of osCommerce services are not welcomed at the osCommerce Forums. I thought it might be because of some sort of conflict of interest, so I decided to do some checking…
From what I see the Moderators & Developers;
A - runs a webdesign firm.
B - runs a hosting […]
Yesterday, someone asked how to incorporate "tabs" into their product_info page in order to save space. I advised to go and search google for "webfx tabpane", and advised that I had this code working in my osC Store but could not post the URL as that would be aginst the Forum rules.
Today, I receive […]
In the osCommerce Forum, there is 2 areas where you can add your (osCommerce powered) sites.
#1 is the "My Store" channel where other users of osC can critique your store and offer advice on what is good and what is bad.
#2 is the "Live Store" list - which is a listing of a number of […]
Over in Carine's Official osCommerce Blog, devosc raised a good point for discussion:
I would even suggest that an 'osCommerce Committee' be formed where these members are elected by the community and they are the community's collective voice to whom the 'team' must respond or be responsible to.
There are some problem areas, one of them being […]
I got to thinking about what barriers osCommerce places in front of a purchaser. One of the main barriers is the whole checkout process - you can read a good summary of why the checkout process is awful at W&W's Blog.
For my own Store, I have reduced the Checkout Steps quite a bit and […]
