Tips & Tricks

Tips and Tricks for running a sucessful online business.

E-commerce guide that includes a wide range of information and tutorials for open source based web shops,  seo optimization, marketing, sales conversion, template creation, web design and reviews of useful free downloads.

Oscommerce on PHP5 and MySQL5

osCommerce MS2.2 bug fixes for errors caused by upgrades to PHP5 and MySQL5 based servers and hosting inviroments. osCommerce MS2.2 works well on PHP4 and MySQL4, but for those who have not installed the latest version moving to PHP5 and MySQL5 will give rise to some errores and problems. This... »

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Shipping and Payment Modules osCommerce 2.2

Help and instructions for setup of Shipping and Payment for our template versions based on osCommerce 2.2. After having completed the initial setup you can then proceed to configure your shops shipping and payment options. 1. Shipping (Modules>>Shipping) Here you can enable or disable... »

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Setup Oscommerce 2.2 Templates

Initial setup help and instructions for our template versions based on Oscommerce 2.2. Step 1 - Security, password and admin login Login to your shops admin with the provided password and username, and go to My Account where you can and should change the given username and password to your... »

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Online Payment For Your Web Shop

How to accept credit card payments in your web shop? For shop with a monthly turnover over 1000 USD , the choice should be quite easy....Get your own merchant account and a good payment gateway provider. For US shops: Merchant accounts are available both from local banks and from various... »

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Oscommerce 2.2 Quick Checkout

How to make the checkout process in osCommerce 2.2 shorter and faster? The standard version of osCommerce 2.2 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. ... »

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Oscommerce 2.2 Installation Tutorial

osCommerce has been around since March 2000. At present there are over 10,000 live, registered osCommerce sites, and about 100,000 registered community members. Apart from providing ready-made solutions to problems, as well as a huge repository of information, the osCommerce community is a living... »

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Oscommerce 2.2 Header and Meta Tags

How to add Meta Tags and Header Tags to your osCommerce shop? 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 insertion of the meta... »

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Oscommerce 2.2 Search Engine Friendly Urls

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... »

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Oscommerce 2.2 Design Tutorial

How to change the design of your osCommerce 2.2 shop? The look of osCommerce 2.2 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.php2. includes/footer.php3. includes/column_left.php4.... »

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Oscommerce 2.2 W3C XHTML Validated

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... »

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