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So far I have installed 2 different smarty add-ons for Dreamweaver. They may as well not even be in there as Dreamweaver shows all the smarty tags as text in design view.

One add-on was one that you copy into the Dreamweaver directories, the other was a Macromedia extension that I installed.

I got both from links I found in here.

Is there one that will show the page as x-cart shows it?

I realize that the first information I will receive will probably be as above, buy a template and have someone install it. I have looked at all the templates that came up in many web searches and none of them are even close to what I need. Not to mention with the cash outlay for X-Cart and all the mods I purchased, I can't really afford anything else.

Even though 7dana has many attractive templates that are affordable, I would still have to have them customized. Just about all the templates I have found are really just the basic stock layout made pretty and a bit more fancy. Needless to say if I can't really afford a template, I definitely cannot afford customization.

I need to totally change the main page except the left column which can stay as it is but needs rounded borders (yes found the tutorial). I need to split the second column and add boxes with round corners with items such as best sellers and specials.

I know about webmaster mode however I really prefer not to directly edit the "real" pages, plus I tried it and found it to be a poor editor set-up that is barely able to be called a wysiwyg editor.

I miss being able to use Homesite and the ability to write everything manually.

I'm sorry I digressed, just a mini rant to vent some frustration with myself.

So anyway my questions is are there any dreamweaver smarty template add-ons that will allow you to see the site as it appears oon the customer side in X-cart?

Thank you for your patience with my mini-rant and questions,

Alex