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One difficulty one may have as a first-time owner of an e-commerce site is the terms that are used loosely which is the origin of all confusion. When you scroll down to the end page of any Algozone website some links to products are arranged side by side. The phrases osCommerce Template and osCommerce Skins are often mistaken one for the other. We’ve always recommended for e-commerce starter-sites to purchase a template first and build up the site for it to be ready for shopping cart integration. To get you started on the template you would want to purchase and the skins you would like to have, we must first define the two terms. Skins and Templates are what makes up a layout, one template can have several skins while skins can be used for different templates. The difference of these 2 elements goes beyond color and lines, read on since most osCommerce sites deal in these terms. The Skin is the term used for all the following elements of how a page is to look.

• Index -This is your Home Page
• Content Page – your post and comments
• Archive List – this is where all your prior articles have been put in folders according to month.
• Archive – is the page where all entries for the month are displayed.
• Pop-ups – this is where images of a pop up are controlled.

Taking the elements into consideration, Skins are the outer part of the layout which attract and engage the browsers. The template on the other hand has the items below to control for a websites’ look.

• Item header – Your post title and description.
• Item Body – This is the posted text.
• Item Footer – this can contain added information or footnote or a Learn More text to redirect a reader to another page.
• Comments Area – this is where messages are typed and posted if the site owner wishes.

The Template is also responsible for the ‘look’ of each item above and some of the organizing elements that make up a website page. The following are the controlled by the template itself: archives look, categories in the navigation bar, parts of the search & query and the locale settings (date & time).

Both the template and the skin are complimentary; it all boils down to the Template being the framework while the Skin is the outward component of a site. Without a skin a template will look drab while a skin just can’t be without a template. AlgoZone osCommerce templates are all designed for the comfort and ease of any customer while the skins are there to delight the eye.

Feel free to visit AlgoZone for osCommerce Skins and Templates that are adaptable to any platform.

Just before shopping cart software and templates became popular keeping a website store meant having to know software programs or the money to hire someone for seasonal website updates. Aside from updating problems there was the question of organizing paper work, sending out emails for billing and invoices and computations that made work at home just as stressful as owning an actual shop. After years of focusing on merchant needs, shopping carts have built-in features that can be enabled by the e-shop owner. Another perk is having a specialty shop that have template shopping cart packages which offer follow up support that could’ve cost more from another. This is one reason why Algozone is preferred and endeared to shopping cart merchants who use our products.

Most shops have logos and then again there are some that don’t. One element that is needed for a shopping cart design to work is having a company logo that is your identity. Anyone can type a bunch of letters that spell your company name, with a logo you tell your site visitors who you are and what you do. An impressive logo is a marketing tool which adds to your company integrity. We have services that offer logo creation and integration to the shopping cart template you choose.

Part of our added services would be the template graphic designing, we have a lot of templates to choose from for any shopping cart category yet we still offer to customize your idea of how your shopping cart would look like. Templates can be created by your specifications and still maintain the integrity of the shopping cart features.

From our point of view, the online shopping experience is not much different from going to the mall. Our focus on how a shopping cart serve customers, window shoppers and comparative shoppers would find what they need and keep on coming back to purchase. Aside from building your very own template and developing several updates to shopping cart features, making your merchant site look good ensures “buy now” clicks. Ideal online stores are the ones that have season sale banners, promotional images for new products and an appealing coupon designs. We’d like to think of this service as store front decorations and window dressing. We could never imagine having shopping carts having no holiday decorations for Thanksgiving or Saint Patrick’s Day sale with no holiday photos or even a green clover leaf decorated banner- any site customer responding to your holiday newsletter will be in for a treat if your e-commerce store front is in holiday theme.

Value added services is included in every shopping cart software purchase at Algozone, we take care of your shopping cart inside and out.