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Old 11-05-2004, 09:25 AM
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Hello Jerrad and welcome to the forum.

Also, thank you for using one of my sites as an example (I feel like a proud papa LOL )

The site that you are looking at represents a lot of time and effort to change the templates. If you have been reading the forums, you realize that the entire look of the cart (and some of the functionality) is controled by the templates. X-Cart uses Smarty Templates. These have a certain amount of logic built into them that will allow you to do things like IF/THEN statemtent, loops and other things. This is a simplistic way of looking at the templates, but this will give you an idea.

There is only so far that you will be able to get by using a visual editor like Dreamweaver or Frontpage becuase of the logic that is used in the templates. However, they can be used to a point.

The large task will be learning all the templates that are involved to display any given page. This is weherer the "webmaster" mode comes in handy for beginners. It will list all of the templates used on a give page.

As you get deeper and deeper into learning x-cart one of the best references that you will have will be smarty.php.net. Using this reference, a good design that you have done in Photoshop (or something similar), your visual HTML editor and a lot of coffee and long nights, you will get it done
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