Designing Your Actinic Store

This intensive one-day course is designed to help you get the most out of the design features in Actinic Catalog and Actinic Business. It will focus on new design creation and how to customise the layouts, variables and lists that make up an Actinic store design.

Delegates should be PC literate, familiar with using Actinic Catalog or Actinic Business to a basic level and be familiar with HTML.

This course always follows a 'Running Your Actinic Store' course.

Discounts available for Actinic Cover customers, Developer subscribers, and also when booking multiple courses

Course Summary and Outline

This course is designed to help Actinic users get the most of the design features in Actinic Catalog and Actinic Business. During the course, delegates will go through all the different concepts that underpin the entire Actinic design, and learn the tools and techniques for totally customising the store layouts.

In order to get the most out of the course, delegates need to have already come on the 'Running Your Actinic Store' course, or have a basic familiarity with the set up and management features in Actinic. The course features a lot of HTML customisation, so a knowledge of HTML is very useful.

Content

Introduction:

• Themes and colours
• Selecting alternative layouts
• Overview of the Design tab

Overview of Actinic Design:

• Changing layouts
• Overall Layouts
• Point and click text formatting
• Embedding html
• Understanding the Design tab
• Editing layouts via the Design tab, and undoing changes
• Actinic and CSS

Variables:

• Adding variables into the design
• Creating new variables
• Limiting variables by content category

Layouts:

• The Design Tree and the Library
• Creating new product layouts with a variable for an extra image
• Creating new layout selectors
• Inserting layouts into the design
• Fixing layouts
• Content lists

Conditions:

• Inserting conditions into the design
• Creating reusable conditions

Further Design Concepts:

• Content lists
• Customising pages that are not store pages
• Editing CSS

Designing in Dreamweaver:

• Implementing a completely new design with Actinic