different footer for customer and admin interface
 

I use affiliate banners on my shopping cart footer. It bothered me that they should show up on the admin side too.
A part from being useless, they slow down the page reloading so I searched and found that by removing the following line at the bottom of /single/home.tpl

{ include file="rectangle_bottom.tpl" }

I now see the footer with affiliate banners customer-side, while it's gone from the admin interface. Kinda radical but achieves the purpose.

I always edit both rectangle_top.tpl adn rectangle_bottom.tpl when I first install X-Cart to include an {if $usertype eq "C"} section so that it seperates the admin content from the customer content. That way, you can have your admin side at 100% width while your customer side is a fixed width. Would also eliminate the problem of having a custom footer show on your admin side :)

header and footer admin and customer side differentiation
 

Great tip! 8)

{if $usertype eq "C"}

what should I replace this with so I could display different things for different memberships?

Read through this:

http://forum.x-cart.com/viewtopic.php?t=12234