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| I downloaded the templates and edited them in Dreamweaver. When I uploaded them, the blue theme was in the background and looked like nothing I created. What gives?
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The blue theme is coming from the blue style sheet link. You can remove the link from your html. It's the one that says:
/Templates/01/_css/darkblue.css
The other link is the layout. You may or may not want to remove it, depending on what you have customized.
These won't show up in your Dreamweaver because the link doesn't have the full url but when it is opening from the bisi location, the partial url is sufficient.
~Gayla
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| Thanks, Gayla. A few more questions for you or anyone that wants to respond an dmaybe this will help others: 1. What am I supposed to do with the $ text? Am I supposed to replace the $ with other data? 2. When I preview my custom HTML in different browsers, I get "#if($Store.MetaCustomValue != "") #end #if($Store.MetaDescriptionText != "") #end #if($Store.MetaKeyWordsText != "") #end" at the top of my screen. Is this supposed to be removed all together? What is its purpose? 3. Another dollar sign question...on the Default HTML, there text as follows: "$CartCount items". Am I supposed to remove the $ sign or add something to it or replaced it or what? 4. Once I have completed all my custom pages, do I have to manually add new products or can I used the BISI system? My guess is that I have to manually add them in the HTML. Is this correct? 5. In the Cart HTML provided, when I preview it without changing any HTML (I'm using Dreamweaver CS3), there are # and $ signs all over the place with visiable text like: #if($ShowError == "True") $ErrorMessage #end #if($Store.IsEnabled == "False") Store is currently offline. Checkout is disabled. #else This should be hidden, no? What am I supposed to do with this data? 6. Finally, how does the custom template know that it should draw from my PayPal account...where is the assignment. Hoping you can answer these questions for me and others. Thanks, J.
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Ok, you're going to like this because custom templates are acutally much easier than you are thinking they are.
For starters, DONT remove any of the $ markup that is in the samples. That's the bisi markup and it tells your template what store information to place in that spot. When you preview your templates anywhere but inside the bisi store, you will only see the markup but when they are hosted in the store, you won't see any markup but you will see the info that it is calling for. (Product title, price etc.)
If you custom templates have all the proper bisi variables such as what you find in the samples, they will work just as the standard bisi templates do. You do not have to do anything different when listing your products other than what you are doing now.
DEFINITELY don't change anything in the cart template markup. That's a real important page and all that mumbojumbo $# stuff is very necessary.
The templates have nothing to do with paypal. That info is entered in your store admin. The templates are just a "framework" in which your store/product info is displayed to the customer. Nothing more.
The easiest way to do some customizing, especially since you are using Dreamweaver CS3, is to keep all the html the same and just make changes to the css stylesheets. Of course, that involves copying the style sheets and creating them locally in dreamweaver so you can make changes to them but that's pretty easy. Then host your new "customized" stylesheets under the custom files tab in your store. Make sure all the links in your templates are changed to the css files hosted there before you put them into your store.
If you only change the css, you can be sure that all the bisi coding is correct to work properly in your store. If you start changing that, you pretty much have to understand it all fairly well.
~Gayla
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