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I am currently designing an interface for a site that will use the shopsite
software and I was wondering exactly how much control I have over the look
of the pages. I poked around some of the sample sites and must say I wasn't
too impressed, although I understand that these were meant to be
representative of the functionality. I would appreciate any input or links
to your own sites.

Thanks,
Larryo

Hi Larry,
custom product and page template files give you full control over the
look&feel
of all products&pages (hence the name) - it's like a web content
publishing
system were you can separate content from presentation. For an example of
a
customized product & page layout, you can check out our site at
http://www.chinasprout.com

The only problem (hopefully until the next release) are the shopping
cart/check-out screens. Those are pretty static and almost
non-customizable
(you'll notice a ShopSite store immediately when you see those pages), but
if
your client can live with these pages (only 2 of those vs. 1,000s of
product
pages) I think you can do a pretty good job with ShopSite's custom
templates,

Regards
Joachim
webmaster@chinasprout.com


Larry Olivarez wrote:

I am currently designing an interface for a site that will use the
shopsite
software and I was wondering exactly how much control I have over the
look
of the pages. I poked around some of the sample sites and must say I
wasn't
too impressed, although I understand that these were meant to be
representative of the functionality. I would appreciate any input or
links
to your own sites.

Thanks,
Larryo

Hi Larry,
custom product and page template files give you full control over the
look&feel
of all products&pages (hence the name) - it's like a web content
publishing
system were you can separate content from presentation. For an example of
a
customized product & page layout, you can check out our site at
http://www.chinasprout.com

The only problem (hopefully until the next release) are the shopping
cart/check-out screens. Those are pretty static and almost
non-customizable
(you'll notice a ShopSite store immediately when you see those pages), but
if
your client can live with these pages (only 2 of those vs. 1,000s of
product
pages) I think you can do a pretty good job with ShopSite's custom
templates,

Regards
Joachim
webmaster@chinasprout.com


Larry Olivarez wrote:

I am currently designing an interface for a site that will use the
shopsite
software and I was wondering exactly how much control I have over the
look
of the pages. I poked around some of the sample sites and must say I
wasn't
too impressed, although I understand that these were meant to be
representative of the functionality. I would appreciate any input or
links
to your own sites.

Thanks,
Larryo