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PSW can use different skins for each company, allowing your customers to use the system in their
own house style or a style that closely matches their house style (depending on the time and effort
you have spend to match there corporate site). Users of that company can access the PSW web
site via a personalized URL which will invoke their skin. Personalized URL is controlled by the PSW
administrators by defining an URL variable for each company.
For example: http:/www.yourprintshopweb.com/yourclientscompanyname.
Templates and styles
Skinning involves the use of templates. A template is a series of files within the PSW web site that
control the presentation of the content and their position on the page. An embedded skinning engine is
used to assemble the dynamically generated content into the final HTML pages.
Skins are used in combination with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). This is a mechanism for adding
style (e.g. fonts, colors, spacing) to Web documents, standard by the World Wide Web Consortium
(W3C). A skin combines uses HTML, JavaScript and PHP to define the look & feel of PSW. To create a
new skin or modify an existing skin some experience with these techniques is necessary.