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Old 02-27-2008, 10:51 PM
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Originally Posted by KevinCamon View Post
Lisa and all SBI'ers,

I am in the process of making my site (non-published of course). I am also using a similar version of the CSS template that Lisa provided for download. What I would like to know is I want to use this website with SBI. When I purchase SBI and start going through the building process, should I use a pre-built template within SBI first or should I transfer the HTML coding during the process?

Lisa, I know you explained doing this but If i'm not mistaken, you used a template in SBI first then imported your own code later? Is this right. I guess what i'm asking is when it's time to build in SBI, would it allow me to upload my own code first?

KevinCamon
Hey Kevin,

What you would do is setup the template how you want it on your PC first. (You can go ahead and select one of the pre-created SBI! templates in the meantime if you want.)

But when you're ready to upload your new design you would just choose the "Upload Your HTML" feature and it will walk you through the steps. If you already have content on the old, pre-created SBI! templates then transfer all that content to your new design.

In other words I pretty much re-created my entire site on my PC with the new design first. Then I used the "SBI! Transition Instructions" to upload my new site. The transition instructions are AWESOME but just make sure your site looks how you want it on your PC before uploading your own custom design.

And if you plan to use "includes" like I did for the left nav, header, etc. make sure you read up on that because you have to do something special to get the includes to work. Again all this is in the Transition Instructions.

Let me know if you have any more questions.
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