Custom Templates

[Guest]

I'm kind of new to this forum, but a shopsite user for several years. When
you speak of using "custom templates" on the more info page or whatever,
what EXACTLY do you mean? Are these templates you create in an html editor
or have designed by a web designer and then cut and paste in for each
product?
-lauren

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[Fred Holliss]

In article <B8917858.7C6F%lauren@heartsmith.com>,
<lauren@heartsmith.com> wrote:

I'm kind of new to this forum, but a shopsite user for several years. When
you speak of using "custom templates" on the more info page or whatever,
what EXACTLY do you mean? Are these templates you create in an html editor
or have designed by a web designer and then cut and paste in for each
product?
-lauren

The former. You could use any text editor. There's fairly clear
instructions starting at

http://www.shopsite.com/help/5.0/en-US/ ... elp/5.0/en
-US/install/custom.template.product.html

Basically, you take Shopsite's sample template, customise it with your
choice of look'n'feel, post it to the "correct" directory (depends on
your version, platform and ISP) and then select it from the Template
dropdown when editing/creating your page. That's it. A sample custom
More Info page from our site would be

http://www.fitter1.com/fbbr65.html

As you can see the look'n'feel is seamless with a "normal" page such as

http://www.fitter1.com/fbbr.html

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[Guest]

Lauren,
if you are familiar with a website development tool liks MS FrontPage,
NetObjects Fusion, MacroMedia Dreamweaver, etc. you can design your
template with the graphical editor first (which is much easier than
hand-coding it or modifying another template), then publish it and add
the ShopSite tags (e.g. the description, the image, the button, etc.)

Joachim


lauren@heartsmith.com wrote:

I'm kind of new to this forum, but a shopsite user for several years. When
you speak of using "custom templates" on the more info page or whatever,
what EXACTLY do you mean? Are these templates you create in an html editor
or have designed by a web designer and then cut and paste in for each
product?
-lauren