Site Customization

Conceptually, a skin is very simple, it's a set of HTML file(s), CSS style sheets, and graphics, that the storefront uses to generate the overall appearance of your storefront. A "skin" is the means by which you can fully customize the appearance of your web site, and in nearly all cases, you can do it without requiring source code or other asp.net code changes. Skins are VITAL to the success of your business...after all, it IS your brand appearance and presentation to customers that will drive the most in revenue growth and conversion rates.

You almost never need source code to do "skinning" in AspDotNetStorefront., Additionaly, you can almost always create a skin from your existing web site or design, by following a very simple procedure outlined in our skinning tutorial manual section.Skins can also be created initially in FrontPage, DreamWeaver, Expressions Web Editor, or any other HTML design tool that you, or your designer, prefers.

For developers, even when using skins, you can still design and add any custom pages to the AspDotNetStorefront solution using traditional asp.net web forms, user controls, and other techniques which are standard. They just appear "inside" the site skin by "magic" when rendered by our Skinning EngineStop settling for a cookie-cutter site that looks like hundreds of other sites...with AspDotNetStorefront, you can take control of your site's appearance and presentation, so it's how YOU want it to be.

You can even have multiple skins per store, and even multiple templates per skin, so you could have your "Shoes" category with one appearance and your "Dresses" category with a completely separate appearance. There is almost no restrictions on what you are allowed to do in skins. Any valid HTML, XHTML, Flash or other components can be used! You can also even vary skins by affiliate id's, so customers from your "Affiliate A" see skin 1 and customers from your "Affiliate B" see skin 2.