Must read before the customizing
The development of structural design brought the result that templates are popular in field of online store establishment.
The wonderful template of independent online store doesn’t depend on whether it’s beautiful or not. Pretty pages can be created by designers. Any page design can be shown by technical staff through template restoration.
What is most important for an independent online store system in choosing or customizing templates? Tell you a secret, that is, the core function of the system should have the least relevance with the template. That is to say, template is template. If someone tells you to choose such online store system because it has so many templates, you should think it over. The point is whether these templates are easy to customize.
SuperCart’s engineers and designers have been researching for a long time. In conclusion, if the X-cart
template, which is ease to use, can get 95, then zencart is 75 and oscommerce is 60. However, shopex does not support custom service.
Templates customization plays a very important role in both PR strategies and marketing strategies. Sometimes it changes obviously; sometimes it changes slightly and timely. That is the general status of updating templates.
Steps for Customizing Online Shop by Supercart
You can choose the ready-made templates to decorate your online shop. Whether it’s x-cart，zencart or oscommerce, either of them has a lot of templates. Those can be bought from the template shops at low prices. Generally it is enough for a nascent one. If you know basic CSS and HTML codes, you can modify your online shop according to the manual. More often, the ready-made templates are unable to meet the needs of the personalized or brand shops. Customization is required.
Why Planning Is More Important than Design in Template Customization?
Somebody will say,” Help me design a template! It should be beautiful and please hurry up!” That is not incorrect. But it’s not the point. Then what’s the point? Let’s draw a small diagram.
Business Model ---> Shopping Process (customer experience) ---> Features Configuration ---> Shop Appearance
Shop appearance is just a carrier. Before you decide to make it, you should have some good ideas in the aspects of Business Model, customer experience and features configuration. At this time, do not blindly worship or imitate the leader in your area. As the saying goes,” Only national creates international”, uniqueness is the best.
Therefore a good template doesn’t just contain some simple colors, pictures or texts but very fit in with the business model.
