While developing a Volusion online store for a customer, I was looking over some reports in SmarterStats and ran across an interesting URL I'd never seen before --- so I popped it into the address bar of my browser and found a nice, yet undocumented Volusion feature.
If you'd like to see what your template looks like without any Volusion generated content on the page, you can use: [READ MORE...]
While Volusion 5 is a powerful ecommerce platform, and has many features that other shopping carts aspire to, the latest version upgrade has, in-fact, removed some of the flexibility that was available in previous versions.
In version 4 or lower, there were a set of .ASP files that a store owner could modify to customize the appearance and functionality of their Volusion. In Volusion 5 the .ASP files are all but gone -- replaced by a single template file, some CSS stylesheets and more options you can set to customize your store.
While some of the new features are nice, the awkward generated code marked up in deeply nested tables is still there -- and it makes it very difficult to modify the appearance of certain pages or sections of your store.
So, what do you do when you want to, or NEED TO add some functionality or design elements, (or remove some) ?