Oscommerce Templates are often very hard to get hold of but many are available through the torrent websites and peer 2 peer, as a web designer I would advise you stay away from these templates.
Why?
After recently tweaking a template for a friend as a favour, it unearthed faults and dangerous security holes never mind forwarding details to a email addresses. When you open any oscommerce file you will find all the oscommerce details commented out.
For example. (This being the latest build)
/*
$Id: account.php 1739 2007-12-20 00:52:16Z hpdl $osCommerce, Open Source E-Commerce Solutions
http://www.oscommerce.comCopyright (c) 2007 osCommerce
Released under the GNU General Public License
*/
From the downloaded template
/*
$Id: account.php,v 1.61 2003/06/09 23:03:52 hpdl Exp $osCommerce, Open Source E-Commerce Solutions
http://www.oscommerce.comCopyright (c) 2003 osCommerce
Released under the GNU General Public License
*/
The important part being in bold the date of the build, how many times has the script changed in four years how many times have the security holes been fixed.
If your looking to use a template for your business, your best starting from scratch. Simple…
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