This section will show you how to make a brand new osCommerce Template and within a few short hours change it yourself to look something like this:
osCommerce Tutorial
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The first thing we need to do is remove that Right Hand Side Column totally. There is only one way to do this and this is to open up each of the main .php files in turn (eg index.php, product_info.php etc) and remove the following portion of code:
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Reducing the Width of each page to fit the design
let's add in some code to fix the osCommerce Store Width and to allow us to center the shop into the middle of the page.
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Making the Left Hand Column Wider
What we now need to do is make our Left Hand Side Column a little wider. Left Column is approximately ¼ the width of the full page. Remember that we have set our page to 760 pixels wide, so ¼ of that is 190.
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Let's start changing some code to allow us to give the side InfoBoxes some style! The problem here is that we need to make our “side” InfoBoxes differently to our other InfoBoxes (eg “New Products for...” box).
This is pretty easy :), all you need to do is open up: /includes/classes/boxes.php
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