osCMax osCommerce Templates

Posted on May 29, 2007
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osCMax osCommerce Template Foundations

Looking through my inventory late last night to clean up my auto archive drive I discovered I had created 5 different versions of osCMax template foundation masters ranging from all CSS layouts (heavily modified content tpl files) to variable width and and column layout masters. After testing them at about 1AM this morning on my demo domain with a few flavors of osCommerce, I was able to get all 5 versions of template masters working as drop in solutions. Now CRELoaded, which I also have master layouts for, I did not test as of yet. But if you are a web designer and or site owner this foundation set will be a beautiful little resource that can save you a spank of money.

Custom osCommerce and osCMax Templates for $30?

When you consider the costs of the average template for osCMax or osCommerce is in the neighborhood of $140 then compare it to the price of customization which can quickly reach $1,500, $30 almost sounds like a typo. Well its not and here is why.

To begin with, my colleagues in education and I have been working on the Rapid Template Design Series with every spare moment available in order to have it ready for the printers and in college bookstores by Fall Semester 2007. osCommerce has never been part of the objective in teaching template design for largely because of the hard coded nature that osCommerce requires for creating custom designs. In fact many of the variant ideas we had for the RTDS have been dropped because the concern for showing bias has always been forthright on our minds. So that lead up to a proposition in the structure of the RTDS in general. You can go almost anywhere on the internet and find some sort of template kit for some application that may be what you are looking for, but none of them have the same academic agenda from its conception as the RTDS does.

The beautiful thing about the entire RTD Series is that ANY instructor (college, high school, university, or trade school) can publish supplemental materials using the publishing features in the series and simply add them into the bundled syllabus expanding the course almost effortlessly without the need for costly alternatives.

When you consider that our competitors product from the current educational industry publishers, instructors are pretty much grid locked into a particular format for books and learning material. I mean the alternative is what? Write a book, build a course, maybe make a few power point slide shows? Not very exciting but none the less required for any unique application to a course. With the RTDS this is moot as our system has core components necessary for expanding or adding on to the course materials in what the industry simply calls supplementals.

So, I’m going to release this template foundation for osCommerce and osCMax with guides as a supplemental release. Price? $30, and will be the only supplemental in our series that is actually downloadable and not physical delivery as the RTDS is. So I’m calling this supplemental “Open Source Commerce Builder” RTDS supplemental

What does the Open Source Commerce Builder include?

It includes the 5 master template foundations for osCMax, a small collection of code snippets, a PDF manual, 38+ minutes of FLASH SWF or FLV format tutorials, and an assortment of other elements needed for the creation of a custom theme / template for osCommerce or osCMax without having to pay a designer like me a thousand dollars for your design.

How do I get it?

So simple I feel embarrassed for not using a PayPal button or order form. But this site is my personal NON business blog not one of my commerce sites so simply send $30 to sales - at - jaredsdesigns.com (it says Jared’sDesigns) and delivery will be via download link sent to the email address I receive in the PayPal notification. Delivery date will be June 4th unless you don’t care about the audio quality of the tutorials then I’ll email it the following day. My audio person only does freelance on weekends for designers and animators so I’ll have to wait until he can clean up the voice overs for me. If this isn’t important, I’ll send the following day.

Why wait until the following day to send? In the years I’ve been building templates for template clubs I’ve learned that all of them wait a day to deliver digital goods like these largely because when accepting PayPal its a good idea to make certain verification has been provided.

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