To have the standard oscommerce paypal payment module incorporate Australian dollar in the checkout process is a simple fix and once completed when your clients get to the Paypal site the entire paypal checkout process will be in Aussie dollars. Open the file in your catalog area includes/modules/pa...

Maintaining and marketing a website can be a difficult task especially for those who are inexperienced or who have very little experience. SEO rules are constantly changing and even then, many SEO professionals disagree on the actual specifics required to optimize a website. This is in no small part...

We are proud to announce the third alpha release in the osCommerce 3.0 development cycle and it is now available for general public testing. osCommerce 3.0 Alpha 3 "Spekulatius" is the first release to be made available to the public, where the first two alpha releases were made available to Communi...

How to XHTML validate your oscommerce shop? The standard version of oscommerce 2.2 Millstone available for download will not validate for HTML or for XHTML at the The W3C Markup Validation Service . This can be remedied in several ways, you can do it step by step manually by editing individual oscom...

How to change the design of your oscommerce shop? The look of osCommerce 2.2 Milstone is fairly easy to change if you have some knowledge of HTML and/or PHP, it usually only requires the change of 5 files. 1. includes/header.php 2. includes/footer.php 3. includes/left_column.php 4. includes/right_co...

How to get SEO and SEF Urls for your oscommerce shop? Search Engine Friendly Urls is one of the corner stones of seo optimization, here we will show you different ways and styles of search engine friendly urls for your oscommerce 2.2 millstone web shop. Available URL mods for oscommerce ms2.2:

To properly search engine optimize your oscommerce shop you need to add meta tags information to your shops pages and products. This can be accomplised in several ways, some automatic and some relaying on manual incertion of the meta info. In this article we will test and give examples of some of th...

How to make the checkout process in oscommerce ms2.2 shorter and faster? The standard version of oscommerce 2.2 Millstone have the following checkout procedure: Step 1. Login or create account choice page Step 2. Create Account Page Step 3. Account created confirmation page Step 4. Shipping choice p...

osCommerce is a great tool for developers to create complete e-commerce websites in a flash. But sometimes we don't always need the entire store to be osCommerce. Sometimes we already have a beautifully designed website and we just want to use the osCommerce shopping cart and e-commerce abilities. U...

osCommerce is a great open source application for building your online store. While it looks great out of the box, you'll probably want to change it so that it reflects your store's personality, so customers will remember it and keep coming back. Dan Wellman explains how to add your logo, colors, pr...