There's a ton of information on your site, so there's a good shot I missed this, but I have one more question.

I know that your software easily integrates with existing website designs.  That's very cool.  However, I WANT to use a template.  I just want to be able to customize it a lot (colors, my own graphics here and there (sparsely), etc.  Does your software come with templates? 

Also, while I'm thinking about it....all of the website creation (pending YOUR software is used to build the site from the ground up....no integration....just starting from nothing), etc, is done online?  Can you work on it OFFLINE off of your hard drive and then upload it? 

Thanks so much.  :) 

-- Ryan

ProductCart comes with a 'default' template (header.asp & footer.asp), which can certainly be customized with your own logo and color scheme.

The template is really meant to be just a temporary placeholder while you create your own graphical interface for your store (or adapt an existing one).

One interesting thing about the default template is that it contains some code snippets to show how dynamic elements can be integrated into your Web site design. For example:

• Dynamic category list
• Shopping cart summary
• Search box
• Login box (which turns into an Account Menu when logged in)
• etc.

Note that any work on the template is always done locally on your desktop and the header/footer files are uploaded to the server. Here are the files:

http://www.earlyimpact.com/forum/uploaded_files/earlyimp/2005-11-22_145549_ProductCart_header_footer.zip - 2005-11-22_145549_ProductCart_header_footer.zip

And here is a document that talks about customizing the graphical interface of your store:

http://www.earlyimpact.com/pdf/ProductCart_interface.pdf - http://www.earlyimpact.com/pdf/ProductCart_interface.pdf

You certainly don't have to design a graphical interface for your store from scratch. For example, the Flash + HTML template that you can see used on our http://www.earlyimpact.com/productcart/build_to_order/productcart/pc/ - computer demo store mentioned below was purchased for less than $60 from http://www.templatemonster.com/ - Template Monster . We did this on purpose to show how the system can be easily integrated into any off-the-shelf design.

earlyimp wrote: You certainly don't have to design a graphical interface for your store from scratch. For example, the Flash + HTML template that you can see used on our http://www.earlyimpact.com/productcart/build_to_order/productcart/pc/ - computer demo store mentioned below was purchased for less than $60 from http://www.templatemonster.com/ - Template Monster . We did this on purpose to show how the system can be easily integrated into any off-the-shelf design.

I guess this answered the question in my other topic. 

earlyimp wrote: You certainly don't have to design a graphical interface for your store from scratch. For example, the Flash + HTML template that you can see used on our http://www.earlyimpact.com/productcart/build_to_order/productcart/pc/ - computer demo store mentioned below was purchased for less than $60 from http://www.templatemonster.com/ - Template Monster . We did this on purpose to show how the system can be easily integrated into any off-the-shelf design.

How easy is it to change the text/pictures in the templates though and to customize it?  It appears to be really expensive if you have template monster customize it for you.