Interspire Shopping Cart Developer Documentation

Template Customization Guide

Table of Contents

Introduction.................................................................................................1

Template Directory Structure ........................................................................2

Template File Types......................................................................................3

Layout Files..........................................................................................................................3

Panels..................................................................................................................................3

Snippets...............................................................................................................................3

Page Structure..............................................................................................4

Template Variables.......................................................................................7

Global Variables...................................................................................................................7

Language Variables..............................................................................................................7

Panel References ................................................................................................................ 8

Snippet References............................................................................................................. 8

File Includes........................................................................................................................ 8

Creating a New Template..............................................................................9

Maintaining a Modified Template.................................................................10

More Information and Resources..................................................................11

(X)HTML, Design and Web Standards................................................................................11

Development Tools............................................................................................................11

Additional Resources .........................................................................................................11

Appendix 1: Layout Files and Panels.............................................................12

Appendix 2: Sample Layout Files..................................................................22

1 Column Layout File......................................................................................................... 22

2 Column (Left + Content) Layout File............................................................................... 22

2 Column (Right + Content) Layout File..............................................................................23

3 Column Layout File..........................................................................................................23

Appendix 3: Store Wide Global Variables ......................................................24

INTERSPIRE SHOPPING CART – TEMPLATE CUSTOMIZATION GUIDE 1

Interspire Shopping Cart Template Customization Guide

Introduction

Interspire Shopping Cart contains a powerful template system that can be used tocompletely customize the look and feel of your store to your needs to integrate itwith an existing website design.Interspire Shopping Cart templates are entirely HTML based and make use of extensive CSS to style page designs. Due to the flexible design of the HTMLtemplates in Interspire Shopping Cart, it’s possible to create brand new storedesigns only through customization of the stylesheets and little HTML modification.This guide serves as an introduction in to the Interspire Shopping Cart templatesystem.

The custom designs by some of our customers are the best looking stores we’veseen.