Template Editing 101 ??
 

I am new to template editing in X-Cart. Can anyone recommend a free or inexpensive template editor that will exhibit both code and wysiwyg. I would like to experiment with changing the look of my invoice. However, I am concerned that I will change something and screw it up. When I look at the code my eyes just sort of glaze over.

Also having no knowlege other than eagerness to learn through experimentation, are there any resources in this forum or links that would be beneficial in learning how to change the look and feel of pages and templates.

Thanks for any responses.

JO

Re: Template Editing 101 ??
 

I'm afraid there are no any editors which can provide you both code and wysiwyg, because Smarty templates could not be compiled without data - you will not see anything.
I can recommend you free PSPad editor http://pspad.com which have PHP, SQL and Smarty multihighlighter. Also PSPad has FTP client which allows to download, edit and automatical upload files to server (as from local machine) and many other useful features. It's very convenient editor for X-Cart developer.
Try to search the 'pspad' in forum and you will see recommendations from Right Worshipful Mans.

Re: Template Editing 101 ??
 

Have a look at this if you haven't already:

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

Re: Template Editing 101 ??
 

Also please look at http://www.smarty.net/ and http://www.smarty.net/docs.php, here is documentation for template engine.

Re: Template Editing 101 ??
 

Thank you for your responses.

Re: Template Editing 101 ??
 

I also recommend PSPad http://pspad.com. The problem with templates is they are not quite html, but fragments of it.