New Shopping Cart Template

[kory@dancedepot.com]

I just upgraded to ShopSite 8, and am interested in moving away from the
default sc_default shopping cart template that I am currently using to the
new awesome_orange_001_sc_template.sst template. However, I need to get rid
of the orange coloring in this new template, but am unsure of where to
identify the necessary file(s) that need modification.

I can find the file awesome_orange_001_sc_template.sst. Is this the only
file I need to work with? The .sst file extension is not one I'm familiar
with, and I can't open it in Dreamweaver.

A tip to point me in the right direction would be very appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

Kory
--------------
Kory Barrett
Dance Depot ­ Performance Dancewear at Discount Prices!!!
kory@dancedepot.com
http://www.dancedepot.com

[jim]

Kory,

The awesome_orange theme is very complex and it includes a number of
files that would probably have to be modified. Doing a quick search on
the files with the name starting with awesome_orange the file
awesome_orange_001_tf_vars.sst in the include directory appears to
define colors for various features in the theme. You could start by
making a copy of that file under Merchandizing > Custom templates (you
will find it in the Includes section) then modify the copy to use
different colors and see what happens. Note you will need to copy it to
a different name when using the Copy ShopSite Include option and then
after it is in you local area Copying that one to the same name.

The sst extention is for ShopSite template. It is a text file which
contains ShopSite template tags as well as html. You should be able to
open it in any text editor. Dreamweaver won't know about the ShopSite
tags that look like [-- - --] so it will probably just display
the tag as text.

Jim


kory@dancedepot.com wrote:

I just upgraded to ShopSite 8, and am interested in moving away from the
default sc_default shopping cart template that I am currently using to the
new awesome_orange_001_sc_template.sst template. However, I need to get rid
of the orange coloring in this new template, but am unsure of where to
identify the necessary file(s) that need modification.

I can find the file awesome_orange_001_sc_template.sst. Is this the only
file I need to work with? The .sst file extension is not one I'm familiar
with, and I can't open it in Dreamweaver.

A tip to point me in the right direction would be very appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

Kory
--------------
Kory Barrett
Dance Depot ­ Performance Dancewear at Discount Prices!!!
kory@dancedepot.com
http://www.dancedepot.com

[jim]

A little more info on this. There are a number of files that define
Vars for various templates in the theme. They have names like
- where the - is the type of template, pa
for page, tf for tell afriend, etc. Changing the colors specified in
these files would change the color of some items on the displayed html
but some of these VARs are used to display small image sections that
make rounded corners and for selecting which buttons to use. You would
need to make new images for any colors that you would change.

All in all it may be easier to create a new template that doesn't use
all of the vars and special images rather than trying to convert this one.

Jim

jim wrote:

Kory,

The awesome_orange theme is very complex and it includes a number of
files that would probably have to be modified. Doing a quick search on
the files with the name starting with awesome_orange the file
awesome_orange_001_tf_vars.sst in the include directory appears to
define colors for various features in the theme. You could start by
making a copy of that file under Merchandizing > Custom templates (you
will find it in the Includes section) then modify the copy to use
different colors and see what happens. Note you will need to copy it to
a different name when using the Copy ShopSite Include option and then
after it is in you local area Copying that one to the same name.

The sst extention is for ShopSite template. It is a text file which
contains ShopSite template tags as well as html. You should be able to
open it in any text editor. Dreamweaver won't know about the ShopSite
tags that look like [-- - --] so it will probably just display
the tag as text.

Jim


kory@dancedepot.com wrote:

I just upgraded to ShopSite 8, and am interested in moving away from the
default sc_default shopping cart template that I am currently using to
the
new awesome_orange_001_sc_template.sst template. However, I need to
get rid
of the orange coloring in this new template, but am unsure of where to
identify the necessary file(s) that need modification.

I can find the file awesome_orange_001_sc_template.sst. Is this the only
file I need to work with? The .sst file extension is not one I'm familiar
with, and I can't open it in Dreamweaver.

A tip to point me in the right direction would be very appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

Kory
-------------- Kory Barrett
Dance Depot ­ Performance Dancewear at Discount Prices!!!
kory@dancedepot.com
http://www.dancedepot.com

[NuQ]

<kory@dancedepot.com> wrote in message
news:BF31E37B.915A%kory@dancedepot.com...

I just upgraded to ShopSite 8, and am interested in moving away from the
default sc_default shopping cart template that I am currently using to the
new awesome_orange_001_sc_template.sst template. However, I need to get
rid
of the orange coloring in this new template, but am unsure of where to
identify the necessary file(s) that need modification.

I can find the file awesome_orange_001_sc_template.sst. Is this the only
file I need to work with? The .sst file extension is not one I'm familiar
with, and I can't open it in Dreamweaver.

Just a quick tip. Do not use Dreamweaver or Frontpage, etc to edit and
create ShopSite templates. They tend to have auto-correction features that
will alter the code in unpredictable ways. They will add linefeeds, etc.
You should use a text editor. I recommend the freeware called Notepad++.

http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm

You can use Dreamweaver to create the HTML code, then selectively paste it
into the template you are editing with a text editor.

[Scott Norman]

What version of Dreamweaver are you using? Here at YourHost.com, we use
Dreamweaver MX 2004 to create templates directly and and hardley if ever
have any problems. In Dreamweaver preferences you can tell Dreamweaver
how to handle code. I think about the only time you really have to be
careful is using HTML cleanup or entering code in WYIWYG. When working
on templates I usuall work in code view.

Scott Norman
YourHost.com

NuQ wrote:

kory@dancedepot.com> wrote in message
news:BF31E37B.915A%kory@dancedepot.com...

I just upgraded to ShopSite 8, and am interested in moving away from the
default sc_default shopping cart template that I am currently using to the
new awesome_orange_001_sc_template.sst template. However, I need to get
rid
of the orange coloring in this new template, but am unsure of where to
identify the necessary file(s) that need modification.

I can find the file awesome_orange_001_sc_template.sst. Is this the only
file I need to work with? The .sst file extension is not one I'm familiar
with, and I can't open it in Dreamweaver.


Just a quick tip. Do not use Dreamweaver or Frontpage, etc to edit and
create ShopSite templates. They tend to have auto-correction features that
will alter the code in unpredictable ways. They will add linefeeds, etc.
You should use a text editor. I recommend the freeware called Notepad++.

http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm

You can use Dreamweaver to create the HTML code, then selectively paste it
into the template you are editing with a text editor.

[Jeff]

Frontpage used to rewrite code years ago. It got a
bad reputation because of that. Nowadays FP can be set to leave code alone.
We've had no problems using it to modify SS templates.

Jeff at
Ackley Uniforms


"NuQ" <nuq@34543544.com> wrote in message
news:deia9r$ur4$1@eval.shopsite.com...

kory@dancedepot.com> wrote in message
news:BF31E37B.915A%kory@dancedepot.com...
I just upgraded to ShopSite 8, and am interested in moving away from the
default sc_default shopping cart template that I am currently using to
the
new awesome_orange_001_sc_template.sst template. However, I need to get
rid
of the orange coloring in this new template, but am unsure of where to
identify the necessary file(s) that need modification.

I can find the file awesome_orange_001_sc_template.sst. Is this the only
file I need to work with? The .sst file extension is not one I'm familiar
with, and I can't open it in Dreamweaver.

Just a quick tip. Do not use Dreamweaver or Frontpage, etc to edit and
create ShopSite templates. They tend to have auto-correction features
that will alter the code in unpredictable ways. They will add linefeeds,
etc. You should use a text editor. I recommend the freeware called
Notepad++.

http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm

You can use Dreamweaver to create the HTML code, then selectively paste it
into the template you are editing with a text editor.

[NuQ]

Okay, thanks for the tip. Actually, I was relaying third party information
that another employee here told me. He said DW messed up his template code.
Maybe he didn't have the preference set correctly or he was in WYSIWIG mode.


"Scott Norman" <scott@yourhost.com> wrote in message
news:deini7$6vl$1@eval.shopsite.com...

What version of Dreamweaver are you using? Here at YourHost.com, we use
Dreamweaver MX 2004 to create templates directly and and hardley if ever
have any problems. In Dreamweaver preferences you can tell Dreamweaver how
to handle code. I think about the only time you really have to be careful
is using HTML cleanup or entering code in WYIWYG. When working on
templates I usuall work in code view.

Scott Norman
YourHost.com

NuQ wrote:
kory@dancedepot.com> wrote in message
news:BF31E37B.915A%kory@dancedepot.com...

I just upgraded to ShopSite 8, and am interested in moving away from the
default sc_default shopping cart template that I am currently using to
the
new awesome_orange_001_sc_template.sst template. However, I need to get
rid
of the orange coloring in this new template, but am unsure of where to
identify the necessary file(s) that need modification.

I can find the file awesome_orange_001_sc_template.sst. Is this the only
file I need to work with? The .sst file extension is not one I'm familiar
with, and I can't open it in Dreamweaver.


Just a quick tip. Do not use Dreamweaver or Frontpage, etc to edit and
create ShopSite templates. They tend to have auto-correction features
that will alter the code in unpredictable ways. They will add linefeeds,
etc. You should use a text editor. I recommend the freeware called
Notepad++.

http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm

You can use Dreamweaver to create the HTML code, then selectively paste
it into the template you are editing with a text editor.