Easiest way to edit a live shop
 

I've got a shop that currently has the fashion mosaic skin, however I now have time to design the site properly and would like to know thoughts on the best way to redesign the site without taking the shop offline.

I've seen a few of the template sites use home.php?skin= which would appear to serve me fine, but it doesn't seem to work with my install - is it an additional module?

Basically, what would you do if you wanted to redesign your xcart shop without taking it offline?

Cheers!

just make a backup of the whole store in a new directory and edit that one.

youll still run off the same database but can now edit the template files

I'd backup like Shan suggested, but here's the mod that does the multiple skins: http://www.websitecm.com/xcart-skin-swap.html

brilliant, many thanks... now to remember my unix...

edit:

realised that i'm more of a try it and see type, so instead of making a backup of the store, i decided to download it onto my laptop and try it from there - all i can say is "what a job!" - the dsefu mod caused no ends of problems...

anyway, look for a new template coming soon!