RealCart U Course: RealCart Templates 101

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RealCart Templates 101 - Conclusion

Modular Pieces of Code

Modular pieces of code make it possible to customize RealCart in very powerful ways. One tiny change in one tiny file can literally affect every page in your store. Snippits are such files. Change a snippit and rebuild your pages and you have completely changed one aspect of the way your store looks, works or acts.

Birth of a Snippit

Snippits started out as modular JavaScripts in the early days of RealCart. In earlier version 1 of the program, javascript was constantly becoming corrupt as a result of customization of the version 1 templates. Trying to patch our users’ javascript back together after FrontPage or some other editor messed them up was taking up a considerable amount of RealCart Support Department attention. This is when RealCart Tech Support ceased assisting users with customized templates. It was never the intention of RealCart Tech support to teach users how not to mess up their javascript or how to make web pages prettier. Customization became the responsiblity of the user from that point forward.

RealCart.com only guarantees their unmodified templates (the way they designed them) to work with RealCart. Changes to an already working template resulting in a non-working finished page is now considered a customization and therefore not supported by RealCart software techs. This is why you will be told to switch themes and see if the problem persists by RealCart support if you ever have a problem with one of your customized pages.

The Big Divide

Separating the JavaScript completely from the templates proved to be a God-send for our users as they could now customize their templates to their heart’s content without risk of damaging the underlying mechanisms of RealCart’s core functions.

The shipping, tax, add to cart, product choices and other javascripts were saved in tiny snippit files so that modifications to the templates themselves couldn’t harm the JavaScript functions because they are now separate files. Both templates and snippits can be modified independantly of each other to create virtually anything you can imagine for your on-line RealCart storefront.

This concludes RealCart Templates 101. Our next course, RealCart [Tags] 101, teaches you the basics of the Square Tags used by RealCart to meld your product info into your finished pages.

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