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[successtrax]

Omar:

I know you are not a company that teaches coding however there are some basic things that I repeatedly see in the forum.  Things like changing headers and footers in a template,  adding a blog to SS site, changing ordere of categories,  how to change fonts in the pages that do not seem to change even if you change the html code.... I think Scott should think about updating the videos available so some of the purchasers can have a more successful experience with the SS software.  Just a thought.

Rick

[Omar]

Well.. SS templates are made of html/css and smarty tokens that are listed and explained. Everything you mentioned is related with that. I am not sure we should make html and css tutorials only because the templates use it. We are not designers either and we know what we can do and what not. Teaching people html/css is not our skill. And there are plenty of sources where you can learn html/css.

Speaking exactly about this topic with another user, on email, he said somehting like "Maybe i should learn to walk before i try ro run" and is the best description for what sometime people try.

[successtrax]

Thanks for the reply.  I am not suggesting that you teach html/CSS .  What I am suggesting is to create templates that
are more user friendly and chan easily be changed.  I know there are templates out there that basically only require copy and
paste techniques and changing things like categories with the click of a button.  I appreciate all your help and dedication to this
project and in no way implying that SS is a bad product.  Quite the contrary it is an excellent product however many struggle with
things like changing text, adding header images etc. which could easily be remedied by more user friendly templates.  Take a look at
the forum which has thousands of requests similar to mine.

Again SS is a fantastic product and I endorse if with 100 % confidence.


Rick

[blogmesiter]

I agree.
Changing html templates is within most levels of expertise or they can work it out- smarty templates are another story.

[Omar]

I don't want to flame this thread but i don't like exagerations..

I know there are templates out there that basically only require copy and paste techniques and changing things like categories with the click of a button.

Can you name me those templates or the scripts using it?

Quite the contrary it is an excellent product however many struggle with
things like changing text, adding header images etc. which could easily be remedied by more user friendly templates.  Take a look at
the forum which has thousands of requests similar to mine.

First of all, "thousands" is really an exageration. Maybe 10, 20, but not thousands, entire SS forum barely have tousands posts. And from all those posts, do you want to bet that most of posters can not write down the html code of a clickable (link) image? I don't mean it to be a pun, is just an observation i made. Do you think we should make videos about how an image html code look, how to use image paths based on where your image is uploaded, etc? As i said, sometime people try to run before they can walk. I know some of you may want point and click options for anything and everything, but that is not possible. Second, i am ready to make more friendly templates. What you mean friendly? How will that work?

Changing html templates is within most levels of expertise or they can work it out- smarty templates are another story.

Smarty tempates is also html templates with some tokens. All those tokens should remain intact in most of cases, so is only html arount it that need to be edited. And all the issues Rick was talking about (changing images, colors, fonts, etc) are html related not smarty.

[successtrax]

Omar;

I am not asking for a html video course.  i am just asking for a template that can easily be modified by anyone whether they have html experience or not.  Having a tab for changing header for example and the individual would just have to plug in the location of headerimage,  a tab for changing colors of the boxes, background etc.... These seem like minor upgrades that would help us tremendously.  Again I love the product however the trial and error at times takes too long sometimes which oftentimes frustrates one and they end up putting projects on the back burner.

Thanks,

Rick

[JayMan]

Guys,

Omar is right. Thought I understand your desires for quick and easy styling... and I'm no different. But I'm a realist.

*  Think of StoreStacker as a sophisticated CMS for forwarding to affiliate links. There are no templates for any CMS that I know of that have push-button styling and changes. There's just too much going on under the hood. Quick and Easy is a fantasy.

* Templates are the go-between for the database and the web browser of your visitor. Everything on the template makes that work and the styling is secondary The magic happens because Omar and Scott are good coders, not because they are graphics designers.

* Caution: Minor changes to StoreStacker templates are not too difficult... IF you stick with tokens and the CSS style sheet only. Once you go tinkering with page code in the templates you can break something by leaving out a single space or character. Unless you have big-time HTML coding skills... don't even try it unless you have gobs of spare time... even if you go watch a few basic videos

* Smarty Templates are quite confusing, even if you do know HTML/CSS.

* Best Bet -> Go to Rentacoder or other site and post a project for a coder with Smarty skills.

Best,
J Greg

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