For a client I am building a web shop. OS Commerce is free PHP web shop software, so I decided to use it because there was not that much budget to buy a very complicated software bundle.

While working on it, I mentioned there was no breathing space in the lay-out. Every simple tag was nested in ‘a’ PHP file. That’s what I think the reason why all OS Commerce powered web shops have the same kind of lay-out with different colors.

I decided to strip all tags from the core code, I hope it will be not that hard… Together with my all time favor Smarty I want to make a highly editable lay-out engine for OS Commerce.

Hope this will not cost that much hours…