Im using OSCommerce for a store and I am starting to style it. I needed to add a couple tags so I did. I upload the file and refresh the page. Nothing happens. I check the source code and the tags I put there arent even there. I have uploaded and refreshed about 5 times. Even done a <?php echo('<div id="colleft">'); ?>
but that doesnt even work. Ive tested it in 3 other browsers and nothing! what is up with this

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I think i understand what you are saying. It would cache on the server?
But the agent at host gator I talked to experienced the same issue.

In the configuration section of the admin there's a section called "cache" go to it and set use cache to false.

For styling it, the best thing to do is going to be to download the STS Template contribution and design your site through there, it'll allow you to do it all via basic html/css with just a few tags importing for the different areas of the site.

You may need to write your own tags in sts_user_code (a file that comes with the sts template contribution) if you want to add anything custom, but it should make things alot easier.

Alot of OSC still uses tables, but they're pretty easy to get rid off, in some cases they're creating via infoboxcontents rather than being html that you can just delete, but you can just comment out wherever it says something along the lines of "create infoboxcontents" and just echo out the information from the file that it was sending through to the infoboxcontents.

It took me a week or two to get the hang off, but once you understand its few flaws its extremely easy to work with.

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