Themes File Manager

AbleCommerce uses a feature of ASP.NET called ”themes” to provide styling for the store and administration pages.  Styles are handled mainly through CSS files, with additional support through ASP.NET ”skin” files and theme specific image files.  However, you only need knowledge of CSS to customize a theme.

For those of you unfamiliar with skin files, they are an ASP.NET specific way of applying styling or common properties to page elements.  AbleCommerce primarily uses them to link ASP.NET controls to the appropriate CSS classes.  They are also used to provide the image path for graphic elements that are theme specific.  Skin files in AbleCommerce help to support the CSS, which is the preferred method of applying style to the pages.

The AbleCommerce Theme File Manager gives you the ability to work with your theme files and folders without directly accessing the server or program through FTP.  You can have any number of themes installed, limited only by your disk space.