Design Issue

[Terry]

I have a dream

Looking for some comments about running a shop embedded within pages designed outside of Actinic.

I have a client who only has twenty or so products and wants the products to be inside standard html web pages, but, to include ‘cart’ facilities, and not as a full shop. Info pages and the like would be part of the site, and not as default pages with Actinic generated files.

My view, and this is where I would appreciate any comments, is to build the shop with one product per page, generate the site and then remove the product code area, everything within the form tag enclosing the product defaults. The web pages built in html would be named the same as the ones generated when building the store to ‘kid’ actinic that product_01.html is the page which it generated, but would be significantly different, other than having the one section of product code containing the relevant NETQUOVARS; product name, add to cart, etc.

In theory, I think it will work, maybe I have convinced myself!

Any comments or pointers will be very much appreciated.

Thanks

Terry
Am I :mad: ?

[ditch]

You can design the entire thing within Actinic by designing a different primary template for each product page.

You can also use the custom properties box in each product to add html to the pages.

Actinic is extremly customisable and there is little point in doing things outside the software.

If you really don't want to use actinic, download a free shopping cart script from http://www.cgi-resources.com or somewhere similar (hope I don't get shouted at for posting that here :( )

Hope that helps

Richard

[Terry]

Thanks Ditch

Mmmm, thought of that, but want to use the mechanics I know within Actinic. I know it is very customisable , but my knowledge of html is greater than that of netquo this that n the other.

Cheers for the comments anyway.

Terry

[ditch]

I'm sure you could make it work that way Terry, give it a shot.
Although I think you could be making a lot more work for yourself than necessary.

[garyhay]

Design the look and feel.

Use the dreamweaver extensions to create a page for each of your products.

Remove unwanted Netquotewhatevers by commenting them out in the HTML.

If you can provide some more details off list then maybe I can help out a bit more but I am not completely sure of your end goal

[Terry]

Thanks

I'll come back to you, but its going 'reasonably' well

Thanks

terry

[garyhay]

Good Luck