Can anyone suggest any site which you would like to be designed in Viart.
I want to see is Viart can handle any type of design.
Brian (Guest)
26 Apr 2008 11:19 PM
Ibn,
I have a site that needs a template.. Have a good example to use.
Brian
Brian (Guest)
26 Apr 2008 11:19 PM
My email is rocketcityracing [at] gmx [dot] com
ansuk
27 Apr 2008 4:07 PM
You still havent finshed this yet? I remember you showing me this last year when i got you to do my header navigation for me. It looked amazing then and it looks amazing now, i cant wait to see it live
A template store is a much needed Viart resource and a truely untapped market. As the largest and most well known designer for another shopping cart script i would love to get my teeth stuck into Viart but with so many template files its daunting. Keeping up with upgrades on the current script i design for is a full time task so setting up a new store for Viart templates is way down on my list of priorities so i for one am hoping someone else starts the Viart ball rolling, especially as the ones Viart currently sell are nothing but relcolourisations ( a word?).
Theres a fortune to be made here Ibn and i know if i had the time i would be jumping on this bandwagon pretty sharpish before everyone else starts
Ibn Saeed
27 Apr 2008 4:48 PM
Hello Ansuk
When I posted the screenshots earlier, i had completed it. First was just a test run, i was checking our Viart at that time.
The second is the basically a complete template but It is not for live visitors as the designs are not mine. I just tried out different designs/templates from other websites as i wanted to learn the templating system of Viart.
That is why i need some more suggestions. What kind of templates do you people require.
Would you like to me to test out a new design for Viart ?
ansuk
29 Apr 2008 5:08 PM
Some good old fashioned tabless css designs would be fantastic Ibn. Nothing flashy just tabless would be nice.
If you take a look through Viart's own custom design portfolio you'll see some really nice clean looking designs done there
Ibn Saeed
29 Apr 2008 6:20 PM
Ansuk, have you seen the template structure of Viart lol
to convert it into tablesless would take some time and a lot of testing for browser compatiblity.
But ill see what I can come up with. Ill start with something simple
ewoud (Guest)
1 May 2008 10:33 PM
Hi Ibn,
I'd would like to suggest my website for this. As a father of 3 really young girls, running a business and trying to finish my masters degree I just can't find the time to really get into doing this myself.... please have a look at www.eztest.com and tell me what you think.
Ned
2 May 2008 8:33 AM
Can I respectfully suggest we look at a common structure to any template changes made to ViArt by designers?
Its obvious that any new design css file can - or should be - be a separate entity in /styles but I would suggest that if any changes need to be made to the html template files that firstly the templates/user files are copied to (say) templates/"newdesignname" and Admin>CMS>Layouts settings pointed to this as well as the new styles file.
After this a new folder templates/changed is created then any "newdesignname" template files which are changed are copied into this. This gives a record of the names of the changed files as well as the changes as you can compare them with ViArt originals.
Ive found this approach very helpful in the past because when upgrading versions you are not overwriting changed files and can track the changes you have made.
You also can also easily compare your changed templates and styles with changes to php, syntax or css entries made by ViArt.
Its also easier for others to apply changes to their sites if using templates and styles from others especially if a template store is set up.
Worth considering?
Ibn Saeed
2 May 2008 10:12 AM
Hello Ned
This is exactly How i design my templates. I never edit the main "user" template. Rather copy the default "user" template along with its corresponding Stylesheets and create a different directory under Images with the name of the new template.
So every change, whether done to the HTML files or adding new images for the new tempalte or changing the stylesheet, it is completely seperate from the default User Template and its corresponding tempaltes.
BlackPearlWeb.com
2 May 2008 7:01 PM
We definitely need templates with full xhtml/css support as Viart is extremely table happy. I have been slowly adapting the following two sites to xhtml but the work is very tedious.
Before using Viart my original site used Squirrel Cart. It had one very useful process.
There was a default templates folder and a "modified" templates folder named as you wish, such as "mytemplates".
The program looks for the required file in the "mytemplates" folder first and failing that goes to the default folder for the file.
This folder also contained the modified css file.
Thus you only have to store your modified,"mytemplates", files together and if these do not need to be changed on upgrade then all you need to do is upload all the files for the upgrade and just keep the "mytemplates" folder as is.
It just seemed so easy and straightforward.
Bill
6 May 2008 5:40 PM
Justin, that's a hell of a job! I'm very impressed with your work on the viart templates.
