AWBS Template Master Layout

Posted on March 26, 2008
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AWBS Hosting Solutions Template Design Master Layout

I absolutely love AWBS for domains in need of a software package for their hosting solutions and shopping cart but one thing that has given me the biggest headache is skinning a template for AWBS.  Now before you AWBS experts sound off and beat me up understand my perspective;

AWBS templates are in fact exceptionally easy to build because the template method is quite similar to the old DRUPAL or even vBulletin method where you break your design down into 4 regions (head, footer, left, right) and the you simply wrap your template around AWBS.  Not difficult and really no different than the designs I’ve done for aMember. The frustration comes in when I try to make the design compliant and without errors.

AWBS is a great tool but having taken all the template files apart and re assembled them I realized I’d NEVER do it again so I’m going to do it right the first time and then create a template master and a few snippets in dreamweaver to make the task easier in the future. This however assumes that AWBS keeps the same template method.  I think I’ll just give away the template master once complete.  Its basically a template for AWBS in which I’ve cleaned up all the nested and broken nesting of tables and added module boxes throughout as well as adding <fieldset></fieldset> throughout the layout so styling can be done entirely in CSS and no major edits would be required to style a custom theme per se`.  Anyway you can visit the solution on The Brokers Edge here shortly and I’ll make this download available once I get it cleaned up.

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