The store front files, the web-based admin and the SQL database work together to provide advanced shopping cart functionality with the minimum amount of website integration time.

Site Store Professional comes with a basic website and sample online store. The sample website and store layout is designed as a “starting point” to allow you to either create an online business from scratch or add shopping cart functionality into an existing website’s design.

Site Store Pro was created to integrate seamlessly into any existing website design layout. However, you are free to modify the included sample layout and use it as the basis for your entire website design.

Site Store Pro separates the ecommerce data (product information) from the website design (layout) to simply the integration and management of your online store.

Site Design Vs. eCommerce Content

The ecommerce content is separated from the website design to allow frequently updated text and shopping cart features to be design-independent.

This allows the site developer to modify the online store data without having to change the site design pages (HTML). The separation of the design and data also allows ecommerce-related content to be instantly visible on the store without requiring an FTP file upload to refresh the website content. 

Once the design of the sample store is modified to match your website,  the majority of ecommerce content and text such as product option labels (size, color, qty, price. etc),  customer registration field labels (first name, last name, address, etc) are controlled via the web-based admin system. 

Although the online store pages (product display, shopping cart, checkout, etc) have content controlled through the web-based admin system (dynamically) , the main text area in the  “root” pages  of the sample store such as “about us”, “customer service” and “contact us” is not controlled dynamically.

The “root” pages can be modified directly using any Dreamweaver or any other HTML editor to add “static” (non-dynamic) text and image based content.  The root pages content are not controlled via the web-based admin because many users upgrade existing websites with Site Store Pro and already have the main website content finished and only use the online store features of Site Store Professional.