css editing program
 

Hi Everyone,

I am a newbie to xcart and css, I was wondering if there was a program out there some where that I could use to edit my templetes.

Thanks,
Fel

Re: css editing program
 

Afraid not - you can't use a standard html editor because the templates are built on Smarty. There was a plug-in for Dreamweaver a while back, but I never found it to be fully functional. If you don't know CSS, it is very difficult to edit the X-Cart templates :(

Re: css editing program
 

:( Thanks I guess I am stuck learning css....hope that doesn't take 2 years! LOL

Wait I found this will it work: http://www.blumentals.net/rapidcss/

Re: css editing program
 

Not really no. You should read through this, which refers to the older version of X-Cart, but the same principles still apply:

http://forum.x-cart.com/showthread.php?t=21529

Re: css editing program
 

Thank you I will read it!!!

Thanks for your help!

Re: css editing program
 

Been working with CSS for almost 10 years and still learn new tricks all the time.

It's a work in progress :)

Re: css editing program
 

Is that kind of like the old dog new trick saying? :mrgreen:

Re: css editing program
 

Ugg well this old dog better get cracking and learn it!!

Re: css editing program
 

Get Notepad++. It has lots of addons/language support one of which is smarty tpl so when you open tpl file you get a nice highlighting of the text and code words

Re: css editing program
 

If you use firefox then look for an addon called Firebug. This will allow you to inspect pages and css elements. I often get ideas on how to code by looking at other sites and then just tinkering.

It will also let you change the css on a given webpage in realtime so you can see what things will look like.