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PrintShop Mail Web can use a different skin for each company, allowing your customers to use the system in their own house
style or a style that closely matches their house style (depending on the time and effort you have spend to match there cor-
porate site). Users of that company can access the PrintShop Mail Web web site via a personalized URL which will invoke their
skin. Personalized URL is controlled by the PrintShop Mail Web administrators by defining an URL variable for each company.
For example: http:/www.yourprintshopmailwebsite.com/yourclientscompanyname.
Templates and styles
Skinning involves the use of templates. A template is a series of files within the PrintShop Mail Web web site that control the
presentation of the content and their position on the page. An embedded skinning engine is used to assemble the dynamically
generated content into the final HTML pages.
Skins are used in combination with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). This is a mechanism for adding style (e.g. fonts, colors,
spacing) to Web documents, standard by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). A skin combines uses HTML, JavaScript
and PHP to define the look & feel of PrintShop Mail Web. To create a new skin or modify an existing skin some experience with
these techniques is necessary.
File organization
Skins are organized under the Templates folder located in the PrintShop Mail Web web site folder. Each skin has its own direc-
tory tree. The name of this folder will be visible in the Skin-pull down menu in the Web Design section of a company and in the
web design page in the Settings-menu.
Skin folders stores the items required to render a skin and can contain an unlimited number of files and sub folders. A skin con-
sists of the following elements:
l Template.php
l Cascading Style Sheet documents
l Images
l Web design parameters stored in the PrintShop Mail Web database
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