“How can we implement our existing website look & feel into HostPay?” – This is a question we’re starting to notice more and more over at Heart Internet HQ, so what better way to explain how to do this, than with a step-by-step demonstration!
We’re pleased to announce a brand new video tutorial on how to take your existing site design and apply it to HostPay’s header & footer files giving you a consistent look and feel between both HostPay and your current website.
We’ve explained what parts of the code you’ll need to bring across from your existing site and also what existing HostPay template code you’ll need to leave in place, to ensure everything works correctly. There’s also a few extra hints and tips thrown into the tutorial as well.
Video: Utilising Header & Footer Files
Any questions or feedback please leave them in the comments box below!
As usual, all the videos can be found within the video section of your customer control panel or alternatively you can check out our YouTube channel (Make sure you subscribe to be the first to know about new video releases).
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Great tutorial.
Would be very useful if you could do one based on incorporating this into a WordPress site or in fact using WordPress themes with HostPay.Any possibility of this?
The principle should be the same as any other website
Hi, integrating this as-is isn’tpossible inside a regular WordPress installation as I’m sure you know the entire WP page is dynamically built using PHP – including Headers, Footers and all HTML wrappers.
Hostpay redirects everything through INDEX.CGI, which executes a shell script to generate all of the content
#!/bin/sh
exec /usr/bin/rshop-int “@*”
The only real thing you can do is to masquerade Hostpay as-if it’s your site by wrapping the top & bottom areas *but* this gets massively complicated when you start to integrate the Customer Account Panel and the SSL areas of your site, particularly if it’s redirecting to securesecure.co.uk/yourdomain.com/
All-in-all it’s a great system but it would appear to be impossible to properly integrate into anything other than a plain HTML website.
Simeon