CSS osCommerce v3
Boston, Massachusetts Rasa Design Studio is the home of Tableless CSS osCommerce v.3.0
With Niora’s “OSC to CSS” contribution and osCommerce’s 2.3.1 upgrade, one may wonder at the need for another “tableless” rewrite of osCommerce. Frankly, we were overjoyed at the prospect of finally being able to retire “CSS osCommerce,” but, here we are again with Version 3.0.0.
Why is CSS osCommerce different than the other solutions?
Different objectives. While osCommerce has always been concerned with appealing to a common denominator of users and Niora’s “OSC to CSS” has been about making osC tableless, Rasa Design Studio has concentrated on an osCommerce that helped with established marketing techniques and strategies.
Our original launch of CSS osCommerce, therefore, had less to do with making the application tableless and more to do with an overall strategy of marketing and conversion. Our later versions added features that either streamlined owner operations, made the application easier for non-programming designers and consolidated code that was hopelessly redundent. Tableless design, then, was only one part of a significant series of core code changes and CSS osCommerce version 3.0 is our best rewrite, ever… and is based on osCommerce’s best rewrite.
Is CSS osCommerce the best version of osC for your development team?
OsCommerce does it’s best to be “all things to all people” and its adoption of a (mostly) tableless structure helps. Rasa Design Studio’s CSS osCommerce, however, was developed with marketing-driven projects in mind. We believed that design and marketing ideas should drive programing instead of programing constraints limiting design and marketing objectives. That said, we don’t mind if our marketing bias shows.
The best answer to the question is that low-budget shops that don’t stray far from existing contributions and design templates will find it cost- and time-effective to stay with osCommerce Classic. Projects that demand complicated new functionality may find CSS osCommerce to be more flexible and the coding structure more intuitive.
What is the cost?
Rasa Design Studio is releasing CSS osCommerce 3.0 for a flat $30 price and opening up support on our site with a new forum. Custom modifications will be billed at competitive flat rates.