Why dont you have a look at the members website section of this forum...
If you give you a list of sites that have been developed using the x-cart system by the forum members.
Re: Dreamweaver / Smarty have a look at this:
http://smartydwt.klitsche.org/
(Personally I've never used it)
This following post is quite good as well:
http://forum.x-cart.com/showthread.php?t=21529
Regards
Shafiq :sK
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