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[PersonalizedFitness]

Gonna give this a try today, Thanks!

[Barney]

the link above is a download only, and the instructions are vague. I have copied the contents to the DW dir, but for some reason .tpl files are not associating themselves with DW.

[balinor]

Are you trying to double click on the file and have Dreamweaver open it? Try just opening it IN Dreamweaver, or associate the .tpl extension with Dreamweaver.

[Barney]

it opens whilst in dreamweaver to a load of code.

i thought the idea of this was to enable us to edit on a WYSIWYG basis with the templates

[el]

All I get when I open a .tpl fle in GoLive is raw code. If I understand the GoLive posts I believe I am suppose to see a wysiwyg page similar to what it should look like on the web. And I should be able to edit that code--right? I'm VERY new at this. All I need to be able to do at the moment is add a couple of lines to the out of the box templates.

I've tried the info from the previous posts using GoLiveCS 7.0.2.

Thanks for any help I can get. I'm suppose to have a site up by Tuesday week.

[Barney]

likewise!

[Dongan]

Hi,

I am using Dreamweaver and helps a lot...hats off to macromedia ????

[Online Michael]

Just to let you guys know I too am using Dreamweaver MX. If it wasn't for Dreamweaver I think I would have given up with X-Cart ages ago. I love the way you have unlimited undo's and how different code is highlighted in different colours (very easy to find code and read). The built-in editor you get in X-Cart is absolute and utter CRAP! How anyone can do any editing with it is beyond me. The window is too small and because the text is wrapped, everything looks a mess!

God bless Macromedia.

[cotc2001]

yeah but i think the idea of the built in editor in x-cart is that you use webmaster mode to find the correct template, click on it, copy and paste the code out of it, amend it and then paste it back rather than dealing with ftp.

If it's a complex edit then i copy and paste it into dreamweaver, if it's a simple one i just paste it into notepad change and then paste back.

[Online Michael]

You have a valid point and I hear what you're saying cotc2001, however, if the editor in X-Cart was nearly as good as the humble text editor in Windows (at the very least), then we wouldn't need to cut and paste and muck around and use 3rd party software at all. I would love to see a poll on this (shame we can't have polls here)... and see, among the forum members, just how popular the x-cart editor is compared to the Windows editor, Dreamweaver, etc., etc.

Anyway, in my opinion, the 4 most important things in an editor are:

a) A big open editing window (less text wrapping that way),
b) Unlimited undo's (we're human, we make mistakes),
c) Ability to work on multiple files at once (it's very rare that IБ─≥m ever working on less than two files at a time),
d) Colour coding of text, numbers, and special code (easy to identify code and much easier to read).

Dreamweaver MX allows me to do all these things and a million more but those are the more important ones.