more info custom templates

[tulipgraphics]

Dear Shopsite experts,
I have made my first shopsite manager shop www.aloe-formula.com
I copied the clean page template, took all tags, made new template with my own design. I am verry happy how the page template looks, I think I have all I need there.
When I try to do the same for product template, more info page template, search and shopping cart template I crashed.
So I used pre-installed templates, with totaly diffrent design as my page template. When I tried to mess with them I got stuck when I hit the publish button.

Is there somewhere a more info template with only the needed tags without any design tags ?
Same for product and shopping cart and search template ?
if there a a list of tags only for each template then I will be able to add my own design to it.
My goal is to create a template for one site only, where all graphc design is static, the dynamic part will be the links to pages, products off course, page name and page title , 3 text areas (where I can put also html), meta tags keyword and meta tag description.

Any help in custom templates and how the more info template works will be great.

On http://www.shopsite.com/templates/tutorial/ (ShopSite Custom Template Tutorial Version 0.1 © 2005 ShopSite, inc.
Last Modified: 13 October, 2005 )
is written Custom template cookbook coming soon.
Is there a cookbook ?

Thanks
Amit

[CarolA]

Hi. I found all the custom template examples very helpful. For example, here is the link to the examples for custom product templates.

http://www.shopsite.com/templates/examp ... ption.html

In the box in the top right are links to various types of examples. I basically used my own HTML design, then stuck in the needed loops/tags etc from looking at these examples. I also made a copy of the template that was closest, and kept referring to that, pulling out the code that I needed (I found it helpful to cut and paste the shopsite template code into an html document so I could view it in my html editor). I made copies of the include files used by the template too, including css - so I could refer to those and pull out what I needed. I think it helps also to display the page using the ShopSite template, then do a view source, to understand what it's actually doing.

As far as a list of tags for each template, there are links to those here:
http://shopsite.com/help/9.0/en-US/sc/p ... start.html

There really is a lot of information out there - between the help files and all the posts on this forum. I still don't have my site live yet, but hope to get there in the next couple of weeks.

Good luck. Your site looks really nice.