It has practically become a snap nowadays to set up your own online store with all the easy to use tools out there. Most of the steps are automated for us where you can just with a few clicks get set up with domain registration, hosting, merchant accounts, paypal accounts the normal kind of stuff you would expect to start an online store with.

If are looking to build your own online store - osCommerce is one of the leading open source software products out there that lets you set up an online store. But of course with such software you are always faced with the dilemma of how can I customize it for myself with my store colors, designs etc.. You may want to hire a designer for hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars or look on the web for a template resource.

osCommerce Cafe is the largest osCommerce Templates membership site on the internet. The best part about this is that you get to download as many templates as you like from their current total of 70 templates. A three month membership costs only $89.00, not a bad deal for as many templates as you need.

The categories are vast from Animals and Pets and Computers to Jewelry and Sports. They also have a tutorials section in case you need information and guidance on customizing their products further.

If you have graphic editing programs like photoshop you can even further customize your look apart from the HTML files that can edited as well. However the Cafe says the templates are fully functional and with addition of your logo, images and text you are ready to launch your online store quickly.

Tip: They also have a free osCommerce button generator. I generated this button plus others in under 1 minute.

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Hyder has been blogging for the past two years on this blog. He started Weborithm, his web company, in 2007 and along with designing blogs and websites also releases various web related products.