If you’re a website designer who works a lot with osCommerce sites, you might appreciate a template resource. I’ve always found templates very useful as something to adapt, even if the final result has major changes in appearance from the original template.

I’ve used osCommerce on one of my sites. I remember how it was figuring out the templates in there, since like any other content management system or storefront program it has it’s own little tricks you need to understand. Having a selection of osCommerce templates might have helped.

The site offering these templates is a membership site - currently $89 for a 3 months’ membership, no doubt less than it would cost a designer to start from scratch. Even if you only use these templates as a starting point, adding your own logos, colors and backgrounds, I can see where they could be useful.

I had a lot of fun wandering through the designs. There are some beautiful options on there. They certainly don’t look just like standard osCommerce sites, which I will admit the site I did up does, since I am certainly no osCommerce master. If I ever want to redo that particular site I’m definitely going to have to wander through in more detail.

You don’t have to sign up blindly either. Quite frankly, I’d probably browse through and figure out if there was a template I wanted first. The site offers a good preview of the templates, so you can see what each page would look like.

For those of you into affiliate marketing, there’s an affiliate program too. You can earn 25% per sale.

Overall, I like the looks of the site. I wouldn’t use a template exactly as it stands, but that’s just me. I always tweak everything to make sure I don’t look just like everyone else. But it certainly can simplify thing to only need to tweak the colors and images rather than the entire layout.