Welcome to Linux UK, professional full time web site developers for the last 8 years.  All too often your Graphics and store layout are an  overlooked aspect of your site, search engines prefer text, but your customers like to see a well presented and great looking store, it says a lot about the products you sell, more than this its instills buyer confidence in your site, think of a person buying a car and has the choice of two identical vehicles in every way and shape, the only difference is one has faded paint work the other is polished and shiny .. which would you choose? "osCommerce is not the prettiest cart you will find!" SEGO is an essential part of your site, Graphics and layout are also. If your store looks nice the you will get a lot of custom, for some reason if the store looks shabby then this will make people thing your store is not selling nice products. A well thought out colours scheme along with great graphics and functionality of image usage will encourage customers not only to shop with you but to recommend your site to their friends. Visual impact cannot be underestimated, it is well known people are attracted to beauty and style its no different with your store, if people like what they see they will buy and return. Some people are expert in SEO, but what is the point of having a good page rank and content if the presentation is not there? All that's going to happen is you get a lot of visitors to your site but only the index page is viewed, in other words in SEO talk you will have a high bounce rate, and you will be asking yourself the question you get 1000's of visitors but your conversion rate is almost non existent. Just because your site ranks highly does not mean that you will get a lot of sales, no, you will get a lot of visits and that's all! We can assist you what ever your needs, from a simple one page information only showcase site to full blown e-commerce. Proficient in PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, Graphics SEO, Contribution installation Layout issues Graphics we can make your e-commerce store the way you want it to be.    Some of our current projects,    Ready made     £320.00 Fondant Ready made store!! This is one of my ready made stores, i have used some wonderful looking graphics on this site and changed the layout to give you a fantastic looking store. Not only that i have added some really fantastic contributions too! The store can be configured to fit in with many different types of product, it can also be configured to give you many more images on the front page and to have loads of extra boxes added. The price includes installation on a Linux server too!! A great ready made store at a great price, click the picture for a full spec list and to view the site. Ameon. This is a custome made E- Comerce site   This site has been updated and improved from the standard install of osCommerce This site i also translated in to Dutch (thank you google)! and added native payment methods. Please visit this site >>click here<< Cherry Tree Bulldogs. This is a showcase site (as opposed to an e-commerce) the client is a breeder of bulldogs, who wanted a site to show off her dogs, and services to potential  clients. This site has need up since Nov 2008 and has already returned its purchase price as the owner used it to sell their latest litter of bulldogs. It is a custom build with an image gallery and a custom contact form. This site is still not completely finished, the gallery is to be replaced with a better type, and some of the images are to be replaced as they are received. Our client needed this site live ASAP. Please visit this site >>click here<<   Mid American Hobbies This site was required by the client as an upgrade to his original store,  which was dated and not very pleasing on the eye, also a lot of extra functionality has gone in to this using the Power OSC package.  layout based on this ready made, ready to go package. Extra boxes and a featured products were added as well as a brand new new_products Module. To visit this site  >>Click here<< Please note this is a live, working store. This site is in the top 10 of the hottest osCommerce sites Click here! Ynobecouturewigs This Site is a fantastic example of what can be achieved with OsCommerce, Totally redesigned layout with additional imaging, CSS and code  added to make this a really distinctive site. Re wrote the new products module to add a background, and randomise the  images displayed maximizing products exposure. Also included our free contribution "Better Product listing and Product info" you are welcome to visit this site, please be aware it is a live store This store has got a really great order page, i used a switch on the product_info.php so the order form looks and acts totally different to the rest of the products displayed there, you should see it!  >> click here <<

Templates,

With osCommerce a lot of template providers sell fantastic looking web sites, they work well ... or do they?
Check the links in the headers for "My account" "Log in" any link that links to some form of personal information being given, are they coded to make the page SSL compliant?
In 99% of templates the answer is no, I have had a huge amount of custom from people who need this changing to comply with PCI scans, or just from customers comments, this WILL out people off, no padlock = no sale.

Lets have a session!
Again, these links, do they hold the session?
If you customer logs in and then uses a link from the header do they find they have been logged out again?
This will be down once more to sloppy code, the link needs to hold the session values of your customers or they will get logged out each time they click a link. again I get a lot of customers who need this fixed as they are loosing custom.
To have a great looking and attractive site your NEED to have

• SEO
• Good interesting content
• An attractive layout
• Interesting but more so relevant colours to match your product type
• Proper session, SSL coded links.