Many of you who run a store with a large number of products and customers or after adding a few contributions, often complain about the store performance. This is due to the fact that the clean version of oscommerce is not optimized. And of course, your customers can’t wait for a page that takes 10 seconds or more to load. So this article will hopefully give you a few ideas, based on our experience and also contributions from the oscommerce community users. Here goes some tips we compiled:

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There have been recently many requests on adapting the multi store contribution to the latest Creloaded version. As the Creloaded and OSCommerce structure are quite different, it’s somehow tricky to do this. There are even some existing files templates in the template folder that the default Osc MS2.2 does not have. But basically, you need to compare first files in multi-store_v2.0\catalog folder with Creloaded and insert the instances of (M-S_,M-S_multi-stores, M-S_pricing, M-S-fixes). We recommend using Beyond Compare to do this.

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Rascator, SmartOSC’s CTO, has shared some top firefox plugins extremely useful for website development.

Firstly, install MR Tech Disable XPI Install Delay to remove Counter every time installing Extension ( it often take us from 3 to 5 seconds to complete this).

• MR Tech Disable XPI Install Delay 2.3 by Mel Reyes (aka: mrtech)

Then, please install next extension. However, it is not necessary to install all extensions to avoid making computer overloaded. It is because there are some extensions with the same option, so you only need to install one. Web Developer extension itself offers many tools for HTML, FORM, and CSS…, so you should install this and further if it is necessary. Moreover, if you need one more extension, please search it in the page: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/extensions/, use the key word SVN.

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Welcome to our new themes !

We have just developed a new theme from GlossyBlue 1.4 of N-Design . We hope it will be better than the old one.

Have a look at our new theme and tell us your thoughts.

Thanks !

Todo-Deporte is a Spain-based online store specializing in sport equipments. Nowadays, it offers a wide range of fitness products at an affordable price. After nearly two weeks, our designers have developed a new version , more convenient and easier to use for all customers for the site.

Have a look at the new design and tell us your thoughts.
Thanks and have a nice summer holiday,

Last week , I worked on a “Joomla VirtueMart” Project. The requirement of project is to create new Payment Module for Paypal UK Pro, following the website payments pro UK and XMLPay Documents.

At the beginning, everything looked good in test mode (test server) . Yeah ! All Transaction Done , Transaction Status , AVSResults, CVResults, StatusCode, etc. were in Response Message but when I switched to live mode, it responded to many errors

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We have successfully developed a drip email campaign module for SugarCRM. This module allows sending emails tied to a particular campaign to users based on relative dates. Some of the most relevant features:

- Create Lead/Partner/Account, associate them with a campaign.
- Select this Lead/Partner/Account’s campaign start date
- Send first email to Lead/Partner/Account at start_date + x (where x is in days)
- Send second email to Lead/Partner/Account at start_date + y (where y is in days)
- Compatible with all SugarCRM types: OpenSource, Professional and Enterprise.

Each user on the same campaign could get email on different days — the email date is based on that user’s campaign start day, not on the calendar day of the year.

Check some screenshots of the module:

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