Building New Skin - Questions

[Guest jchastain]

I am working on building a new skin for CubeCart from scratch. So, before I start asking too many questions, is there any sort of specification as to the different tags and functionality that is built into the template files? If not, here is the first series of questions ...

1. How do I add entries to a language file? I attempted to add a new line, but I am not being able to reference it.

2. I am looking to build a list of categories that looks something like this:

<ul id="mainNav">

<li class="first"><a href="#">BATH & BODY</a></li>

<li><a href="#">HEALTHY LIVING</a></li>

<li><a href="#">ORGANIC FOODS</a></li>

<li><a href="#">SURGICAL SUPPLY</a></li>

<li><a href="#">ACCESSORIES</a></li>

</ul>

Notice that the first list item has a different class. How can I accomplish this?

3. I am looking to build a store directory listing ... i.e. all categories and their sub-categories (level 2 only).

<ul>

<li><a href="#">Beauty</a>

<ul>

<li><a href="#">Body lotions</a></li>

<li><a href="#">Manicure & pedicure</a></li>

<li><a href="#">Sun care</a></li>

<li class="more"><a href="#">more</a></li>

</ul>

</li>

<li><a href="#">Health</a>

<ul>

<li><a href="#">Allergy & sinus</a></li>

<li><a href="#">Digestion</a></li>

<li><a href="#">First aid</a></li>

<li class="more"><a href="#">more</a></li>

</ul>

</li>

etc.

Any suggestions?

Thanks for the help.

[markscarts]

Look at the mods at cubecart.org forum - there are several mods by convict that help in customizing categories with subcats, etc. and he does custom category mods. There may be others over there as well who can help.