osCommerce is web based ecommerce solutions that serve as ready to use online shopping system. The source code of osCommerce is easily available and anyone can modify it according to their requirement.

osCommerce is a perfect solution for an ecommerce based website. It is shareware licensed software which means it is available for free under the GNU General Public License. osCommerce is the foremost databases driven shopping carts present in the market. It has many features which is very helpful for the store sellers to run and maintain their online stores with minimum amount of effort. An osCommerce mall can easily be managed by a person who has a basic knowledge about computers.

osCommerce combines Open Source solutions to give a free platform which supports the PHP and MySQL. It can run on any PHP web server which is running on Solaris, Linux, Windows and Mac OS environments.

History

The osCommerce development started in year 2000 by Harald Ponce de Leon as The Exchange Project. In year 2001, the project name changed from The Exchange Project to osCommerce to prove its development and to make its existence stronger in the Open Source community. Not only a devoted team managed the project but also communities played an important part where members assisted each other and contributed their work in the development of the project. The combination of devoted team members and dynamic and active community has assured the success of the project. In year 2007 there are more than 12,000 active websites exercising this program. (more…)

W2CSS is a program which produces CSS class definitions by transforming Word files into HTML file.

What is CSS?

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are used to separate design from content. The CSS give styles to HTML pages, give structure to documents and is used for consistency in style. CSS can be made in HTML, or by using different tools such as Dreamweaver, FrontPage and W2CSS etc.

W2CSS:

The W2CSS is a program which executes with MS Word on the front end. This translator program gets MS Word file as an input, process the file, translate the paragraph and words in to CSS and creates HTML file as an output. Such HTML files are always easy to understand and all elements such as bullets, numbers, pictures, headings etc are labeled with a CSS “class”. This CSS style file can be reused by other HTML documents.

W2CSS Features:

W2CSS consists of

• Translation of Word tables.
• Character level styles.
• Hyperlinked Tables of Contents etc.

W2CSS is a unique Word document translator. It is very helpful for those who want to get easy HTML code with simple CSS style descriptions. The W2CSS tries to generate exact HTML copy of the word document provided to it. It decodes style descriptions and saves style labeling. This tool is shareware which means that it can be used in unregistered form for free.

Uses of W2CSS:

W2CSS is used to convert Word document in HTML format by defining color, text font, text position, pictures, borders, table, layout and various other typographic attributes. It furthermore describes non-visual attributes such as the speed and so on.

How to Install the Translator:

System Requirements:

• W2CSS, version 2, runs with Office 97 Words because this program is made in Visual Basic and the previous word versions don’t support Visual Basic language.
• WinZip software is also needed to unzip the W2CSSdoc.zip file. (more…)