Thread: Using The Skin Html For Static Pages

In addition to our aspdnsf store we have a static html website that we use for supporting our store, and we need to keep this site separate for a lot of reasons.

But we want to match the look of our aspdnsf store.

1. If we copy the skin1 folder to our other site and rename the template.ascx file index.html can we use it as a regular html website?

2. If so, what parts inside the ascx file would need to be removed or changed?

If you have tried this, you'll find that the answer is "No". The content of the template is interpreted as a page is displayed, so that all of the tokens and packages return something meaningful. In order to achieve this you may be better off taking the source of the homepage when it is displayed through a browser and then amending that. However, the dynamic elements, such as menues, will beome static. So if you add more categories these won't appear unless you edit the html pages aswell.

However, the other site is completely static - we just want to match the design. So if we are not using any tokens or rendering data, but merely adding index.html, then page1.html, then page2.html, would this not work? I'm trying to save time by using the existing style sheets mostly.

Is the answer still "no" in this case?

The take a copy of the stylesheet and reference it in your html pages.