osCommerce templates,Zen Cart templates,CRE Loaded templates
Click to go back to the site, to the collection of free e-commerce templates and premium oscommerce,cre loaded and zen cart templates.Why you should hire a professional designer to design you an osCommerce template
A lot of people try to start their own osCommerce template from scratch, but they find this is not such a good idea, after all, because a, osCommerce template requires work, time, passion, talent and skills. You have what it takes to design one?The fact is that you actually need to be a professional web designer to successfully produce such a theme, because the level of complexity and details is way beyond regular limits.
Why is an osCommerce template so difficult to design?
Well, first because you need to take care of all the features that osCommerce provides and you need to correctly implement all of them. Then you need to understand the software as a tool, to see what it does, how you could make it work for you, how you can extend it. And an osCommerce template must take care of all of these.That is why I strongly believe that you should give this job to a professional website designer, to do this for you. The main reason is the fact that the whole site will be an ecommerce platform, where you will need to sell products or services and in order to do this you need a trusty looking website. For this, your website needs to look professional and only a professional can design such template for your osCommerce powered site.
Free OsCommerce templates requires a certain degree of knowledge
And that is the cold truth, my friends, designing a free osCommerce template requires a specific set of knowledge and I tell you this from my own experience. It is not easy to design a skin for a well structured engine, no matter it is osCommerce, Zen Cart or WordPress, they all requires you as a designer, developer or whatever you want to call yourself know your job very well.
Why is an osCommerce template difficult to design?
The reason is quite simple: there is not easy to consider all the features such a powerful engine has. It is easy to draw and design a skin, no problem here, ok? Every website designer is able to do it, but then the real problem comes, the fact that you need to break that design into HTML and integrate the PHP calls and this is also a tricky thing to do.
Also you need to know your script languages, PHP is not a difficult language, if you know your way around it, but it is not easy of you don’t. May sound obvious but think about the fact that a simple call to a PHP function there may bring a lot of code you did not expect, like for example tables, grids, lot of products with one simple call of a function and you need to also design and customize that call and here you need to know your way in PHP a bit to know where to find your stuff.
That is the reason for which I say that designing free osCommerce web templates is not an easy to do task and you need to learn a bit of programming, HTML, PHP before jumping into it.
How difficult is to learn how to make osCommerce templates?
Well, this is something that everybody should ask about any predefined engine, when it comes to designing skins. No matter we speak about oscommerce templates here or about Zen Cart templates or even about WordPress skins, designing a themes for a predefined engine is not an easy task.
The fact is that you need to comply with particular constraints, to match them, because the engine that you dress probably has a lot of widgets, toolbars, features, etc that you will need to dress also.
Really, are osCommerce that difficult to make?
Personally I would appreciate they are. Actually if you are not a pretty good designer or programmer you will probably find it very difficult to make.
How could you start designing an osCommerce template?
I think that the best way to do it is to start with the default theme and then to adapt that one. This way you will have the constraints already respected, the theme will already be adapted for the engine and it would be easier for you to add some design parts around the already embedded tags.
An other interesting solution would be to take an open source osCommerce theme and to change that one. The Open Source license will allow you to adapt it as long as you probably keep the link back to the original designer. Then,one step at the time, try to design your own themes and templates and you will see that you will manage to come up with nice looking skins for your osCommerce, Zen Cart or CRE Loaded ecommerce websites.
Would people looking for free ecommerce templates buy a design service?
This is what I ask myself in the last period of time. I wonder if people looking for free ecommerce templates would consider spending some money on custom designed sites. I ask myself this question because usually, when you look for free services, you are not that willing to spend money on paying other similar services. Of course, this is the reason you started looking for free ones, isn’t it?
I keep thinking of a service where I design full ecommerce websites starting from a free osCommerce template for example. Think about it. You come here to download a free osCommerce template and you buy a customization service and you end up with having one full online store in a couple of days, for a minimum price. Isn’t this a great solution?
I also think of promoting this service by email, to make people buy it, not only by using the website. I think that there would be enough people interested in this. In the end, not everybody came here for free ecommerce templates, a lot of my visitors come from searches related to premium oscommerce templates! And that means they might buy a service or two…
Tutorials for Zen Cart templates and osCommerce templates?
These last days I thought about starting a small tutorial set for osCommerce templates and Zen Cart templates. Wouldn’t be interesting to have here a step by step guide on how to design Zen Cart templates? Also OsCommerce templates won’t be that difficult to make after reading such a tutorial.
For the moment it is just an idea that is not yet started, but I keep on thinking about this. If I will start such a tutorial, I will need to find the best way to put it, how to explain it better so everybody understand it. Zen Cart templates or osCommerce templates are not that easy to make and a good tutorial could put things in such a light that people that are not that experienced with e-commerce templates will be able to design them in no time.
If you have previously tried to design Zen Cart templates, for ex, you know that there are some constraints that you need to respect and this is also true for osCommerce templates and for any e-commerce template of any premade software package.
Entertainment osCommerce templates
An other section has been added to our website, entertainment osCommerce templates. From now on, in that part you will find anything you need to build an online store for entertainment, kids, toys, etc. Colors are beautiful, themes are well organized so children find easy what they are looking for. It is not difficult, but considering people don’t want to spend much time looking for a particular thing, or because we speak about children, you need to make them focus on what you want. That is why we put a special weight on our entertainment ecommerce themes.
We will be adding themes there as often as possible and we will make efforts to also design some free ecommerce website templates for this category, when time will allow us to. At this moment I don’t know how much time we will find for this, but we will do our best!
Electronics osCommerce templates, a new section on our website
One of the most interesting categories of osCommerce templates is the one dedicated to electronics market. We have added a section to our website, where you can see only electronics osCommerce templates. This section lists there themes dedicated to phone online shops, to LCD and TFT displays, to digital cameras, etc. Does not matter what you sell, if you are in electronics then you can find what you are looking for:electronics website templates, a market that is continuously growing due to the continuous expansion of high tech devices.
Today, the world of electronic devices grows day by day, when you look around you, everything works on electronic devices and more and more shops started to sell them. So, website themes for such online stores came as a natural thing, as an answer to what people is looking for.
Take a moment to explore this new section and think about using one of those beautiful and professionally designed theme next time you think about starting that phone shop you are thinking about!
Is making osCommerce templates a difficult process?
Well, believe it or not, it is. Unlike other custom ecommerce templates, where you have not that many constraints to respect, osCommerce templates need to be designed considering the current structure of osCommerce. Any fixed form shopping cart engine will have similar constraints, if you think about it, even WordPress has constraints when designing a blog theme and from this point of view, osCommerce templates are no different.
There are some files that you need to look at and respect their structure, because when your osCommerce theme will be over, you will need to add it in your online shop and it will just need to fit in. That is why, every ecommerce template designed for osCommerce will need to obey some rules in order to work with the script itself.
It may be difficult at start, especially if you are not familiar to PHP, for example, or other similar script. There is no need to understand difficult scripting techniques, but you need to have a basic understanding of how server scripting works, in order to not remove particular code structures needed by the code.
So, in the beginning, it may sound like a difficult job, and it is, for a beginner, especially, but if you work on it for a while, you will get used to it and making osCommerce templates will become easier. However, if you consider starting an online shop and you don’t have designer’s skills, don’t wait until you will learn! Download one of ours! We have plenty low cost osCommerce templates!
Why are there sites offering osCommerce templates for free download?
Is it worth to develop osCommerce templates to give them for free? Why would somebody give away for free osCommerce templates? Which would be the advantage of giving them away for free?
Well, the answer may contain many parts. One of these parts may be the fact that you help people by giving them something that they need and for which they don’t have enough money. So, giving them these ecommerce themes for free you help them achieve something, do something, make a step forward. Otherwise they may need to pay a professional website designer to create from scratch a custom osCommerce skin and this may be a difficult thing for them to handle; the very fact that they use osCommerce for their shop shows the fact that they don’t have much money.
There is a great feeling of achievement when you help people, you know? Giving away for free ecommerce website templates, you help somebody and this gives you the feeling of a greater good.
But this is not the only advantage when offering ecommerce website templates for download. No. There is also the fact that you manage to increase your site PR by keeping a link back to your site. Do you start to see the advantage? Well then, how about making your free e-commerce web themes make you some money using advertising? This is another way of making free online store skins make you money and it is quite used.
When you give away osCommerce templates you get a good, steady traffic that you can use to sell private advertising as well. This is a good way of bringing revenue out of your e-commerce web themes. Also, besides downloading them for free, people may purchase premium osCommerce templates, Zen Cart themes and CRE Loaded templates so this is another source of revenue.
Think about it next time you ask yourself why somebody would give away such good design!
Don’t cut costs when you buy an osCommerce template
When you start an online store and you want to buy a template for it, consider particular colors and layouts. The reason for which I suggest this is the fact that people are influenced by colors and by the way the site looks. If you have a site that looks crowded and has blinking ads, a lot of colors that are also bad matched, then you probably won’t sell too many items on your site!
Think about this when you pick a e-commerce template and choose your colors wisely! Ask a professional designer to do the customization for you, don’t be too confident in doing it yourself it is usually a difficult job to do that results in your site getting or not getting sales, so what you may be saving by not hiring a professional designer you may be loosing on the other hand when you will see you won’t get sales.
And all this because you chose an osCommerce template that you customized yourself and you made it crowded. You know this is one of the main dangers you can expect? The eye gets used to what it sees and adding one more, or JUST ONE MORE box there is areal danger! Ask the designer to do it for you!
It is that easy and at the same time that complicated, if you don’t do it right! When you invest money in your store, you don’t cut expenses in the main parts, right? You pay a higher fee for a central commercial spot, then why cut expenses when buying a good looking osCommerce template? Because this costs the least out of all the things you will buy for your store and it gives to the customer the real value of your store! Think about it!