Why free osCommerce templates are hard to find?
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The reason for which free osCommerce templates are hard to find is that they are not easy to produce and people charge money for them. Designers invest a lot of time in producing their work and designing a high quality osCommerce template is not an easy task to do. First you need to know your way around Photoshop, HTML, a bit of PHP because creating an osCommerce template is not only a matter of design, you need also to integrate it into an existing e-commerce website with a predefined structure and for this you need to know your way around PHP to recognize PHP code and be able to adapt a theme without breaking the code that is already there.
So, how much free osCommerce templates actually cost?
A strange question, isn’t it? But unfortunately it is true. In order to provide free ecommerce templates, in order to publish them without charging money, a designer must pay for it in his or her own way: by working long hours.
First of all you should consider the time a designer needs to learn his job and to get that level of refinement that allows him to produce a theme that amaze the regular user. This is a long process that usually takes years and never actually stops, but it takes long years to reach a point where the quality of your work reaches a certain level of professionalism.
Then it is the actual work than the designer does in order to create that free e-commerce theme, this may take 1-3 days for a design idea and implementation, then another 2-3 days to break the design into HTML and integrate it in the ecommerce engine. If we do the math, it takes about 3-6 days to produce a fully working osCommerce template that will be distributed for free. How much would you pay a professional designer to work for you 6 full days? Well, add taxes and you will see how much a free osCommerce template really costs.
Should we also add the price of the license for the software the designer uses? Should we add Photoshop to this? Should we add Dreamweaver and maybe Flash? I think we should because he can not produce a quality ecommerce template when working in Notepad or some free but not very proficient design tool.
See? That’s the real price paid for a free osCommerce template that you get from the internet with the cost of a click!
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How many days a professional designer needs to produce free osCommerce templates? |
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As I was saying, a professional website designer needs between 2 and 6 days for any type of ecommerce template that in the end he will deliver for free. |
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Does it matter if he designs a Zen Cart skin or an osCommerce theme in terms of how long it takes to produce them? |
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Not really, the process is the same. OsCommerce and Zen Cart are 2 different engines and they both need to be studied before designing themes for them. Zen Cart skins are not easy to produce either, so the short answer is no, there is no difference in terms of time. |
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Can I learn to design osCommerce themes? I would like to have such a website where to publish free ecommerce templates... |
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Yes, you can, but the amount of time you need to spend for this depends on where you are right now, how proficient you already are in Photoshop, Dreamweaver and PHP |
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Can you teach me to design such osCommerce templates? |
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Well, I don't offer such services here on site but soon I may start a tutorial on how to design free osCommerce templates and publish it here so you can read it and learn from it. |
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