Create a Custom Theme

The Custom Themes feature allows you to create themes based on custom templates. A theme consists of a page template that defines the layout of elements on the page, and one or more color schemes that can be applied to the elements on the template. You can optionally define a product template as part of a theme. Custom themes can provide ISP or merchant branding of stores, to give a specific look and feel.

There are six steps to making a custom theme that merchants can apply to their stores:

1. Create a custom page template.
2. Optionally create a custom product template.
3. Create sample pages of your template in various color schemes, and create thumbnail images of those pages.
4. Copy your templates and images to the correct directories on the ShopSite server.
5. Add an entry to the themes.dat file for each color scheme to make your theme available for merchants to choose for their stores.
6. Optionally create a custom shopping cart template and a custom search template.
7. For ShopSite Pro stores, optionally create a custom gift certificate template.

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