Hi!
Thanks for the advice everyone! Based on Loren's tip, Bizland.com was able to
determine that I was FTP'ing my custom templates to the wrong directory. It
didn't help that they never informed me where to put it in the first place.
But, anyway, all is OK and I am knee-deep in customizing page and product
templates.
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Question. I'm creating a simple custom page that will loop through all the
products that I want displayed on this particular page. Easy enough if I want
to display each product one after the other all the way down the page. But, I
want to display 2 products per row all the way down the page. Now, it can
easily be done using the built-in templates. You just choose the 2-column
attribute when editing the built-in page's layout. But, when you're doing
custom page templates, how do you tell ShopSite to essentially read two products
at a time, placing the first product info in table cell 1 and then the second
product info in table cell 2? Then, close out the table row and pull another 2
products and display them side-by-side in the second row. I hope I'm making
sense here.
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Any suggestions?!
Cheryl
www.blissweddingsmarket.comKatrina Morris wrote:
Hi Cheryl,
I was a bit confused when I first started using custom templates, but once
you get started, they're fantastic. They really give you alot of control.
I think also where you've gone wrong is that you created a normal HTML page
and inserted tags. This will not work. There are other defining tags that
you will need outside the <html> brackets. Make sure you go back and read
the help section on custom templates very carefully. Also, look at the
sample custom templates for pages and products. This will be a great
springboard for you to use. After I read the instructions over two or three
times, it was a breeze.
Hope this helps,
Katrina
http://www.rexart.com"Cheryl" <cgalvez@bluegrottomedia.com> wrote in message
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Hi --
I'm trying to create a custom Product template so that I can use it
instead of the templates that come built-in with ShopSite Pro
(Mondrian, Matte, Lefty, etc.).
According to the ShopSite documentation, all I have to do is create an
HTML page like usual and throw in some ShopSite custom template tags.
Like...
[-- HEADER --]
[-- FOOTER --]
[-- LOOP x --]
[-- END_LOOP x --]
... just to name a few.
So, I created a page, and uploaded it to my data/templates/pages
directory according to the instructions. I, then, went back into
ShopSite to choose a product to apply my new page template to. However,
my template was not listed in the pull-down menu.
I've cleared my cache, deleted my cookies file, hit SHIFT+RELOAD in my
web browser but to no avail.
Shouldn't the custom page and product template show up immediately after
I've FTP'ed it to the server? Does the server have to be restarted in
order for it to appear? Does it take awhile? I would think this is
instantaneous. Do I have to log in and out of ShopSite?
My ISP is Bizland.com and I'm not sure they have anyone knowledgeable
about ShopSite.
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks,
Cheryl