Any changes you make outside of the software will always get deleted when you re-save your cart.

Hobbyist,

Good point about the custom CSS file. I was thinking about that also but was hoping that I wouldn't have to do that. It would be great if Coffee Cup would write a set of instructions on how to create templates for their Shopping Cart. The Coffee Cup community and many other designers out there could contribute by designing various types of template styles and sending them into Coffee Cup for approval. Kind of like some of your open source blog software (i.e WordPress, Moveable Type). This way we will have more styles to choose from without having to go in and recreate the CSS or PHP files. OR allow for the existing styles to be modified to fit the user's taste and be able to save those changes as another style.

The only thing about the iframe idea that you mentioned in a previous post is that I do not like to use iframes unless there is absolutely no other solution. Iframes are nice for some things that allow you to build a so-called window to view another web page. The thing about the iframes or frames in general is that some search engines (i.e. Google) do not guarantee that the content within will be indexed because of the variable urls associated with frames. Here is a quote from Google's Webmaster Central:

"Google supports frames and iframes to the extent that it can. Frames can cause problems for search engines because they don't correspond to the conceptual model of the web. In this model, one page displays only one URL. Pages that use frames or iframes display several URLs (one for each frame) within a single page. Google tries to associate framed content with the page containing the frames, but we don't guarantee that we will."

That will be an option soon. For more information visit http://www.coffeecup.com/shopping-cart/help/

That will be an option soon. For more information visit http://www.coffeecup.com/shopping-cart/help/

Mike Z.

I am aware of the SEO issues with iframes. The ref. page was put together during the beta testing to see if I could accomplish a certain look and feel. I was testing just how much a novice user could quickly/reasonably achieve.

SEO would certainly be required/desirable for a "medium-heavy" ecommerce site. In my case it is to be used for a club selling a few T's, hats, sweats, etc.

In that case as long as the main page is sitemapped and indexed, that would be adequate for my needs.

Your info will be useful to users making those decisions (look and feel vs. SEO issues). Thanks.

If you want to use a custom style sheet, why not save your file as a snippet (or just a separtate text file) and copy/paste the style info back in after making changes and saving in the program? Not a great fix, but better than starting over each time you make a change.

Cliff

Similar to what I do. Copy and paste in text editor. Edit. Save as xxxxxxcustom.css. Then change the file name to the default.css and reload to the correct directory after each update. The custom.css is kept in a separate folder as a backup to use when needed. This folder could contain numerous .css's for future use. You just have to make sure the file names are changed to the default.css when uploading to the correct server directory. No big issues. Simple enough to me.