Novus in too deep!

[succar]

I'm a bit confused; please bear with me as I'm somewhat of a beginner.

I downloaded MS2-MAX v1.7.0. I have installed and configured it following the installation guide & all seems well. My first question, what’s the difference between this one & osCommerce 2.2? Should I use osCommerce 2.2 instead?

If I give you a brief description of what I’m aiming for than maybe you can help me out a bit better.

I want to have a website, with normal pages (e.g. home, about us, newsletter signup, contact us) as well as to have an online catalogue to sell audio cd’s, books and other similar products. Now, I was initially searching for a cheap, reliable & easy to use credit card merchant so I ended up choosing 2checkout.com – which is what led me to osCommerce in the first place because they said that it is one of the 3rd party shopping carts that their service is compatible with – you still with me?

Can you offer any suggestions, instructions ANY wisdom at all that will help me out? Especially concerning the 2checkout.com compatibility issue, what do they mean? Please any help will be greatly appreciated!

Final question; when I go to my site, www.mysite.com at the top of the page I have ‘Switch template: AAbox CSS OneTable Closed osC Current template directory: templates/aabox/’ Which template should I use & how do I change it?

THANK YOU SO MUCH!

PS. 2checkout say their compatible with OsCommerce 2.2, does that include MS2-MAX v1.7.0?

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osCommerce MS2 is the plain jane version with NO addtional features installed.
Where as MS2Max (or osCMax as it it being called now) is osCommerce MS2 with a WHOLE bunch of added features and "contributions" added in - in one package. No tring to figure out on how to add in many of the common/most used items in - it has it already.

However it does nave ONE MAJOR change - the BTS-Basic Template System. (Which MS4 WILL be based on - maybe in MS3 when it come out - but is not/will not ever be in MS2)

The Template Switch is more for testing or to give your customers a choise - you can change/remove the file to give only ONE option....

YES. Most (ones that don't conflick with one another contribution already in MAX) - contribution not in MAX can be added - manually and pay attention to the BTS and code changes that conflict with other changes/contributions.

Good Luck