Thanks Torsten - that is VERY helpful and I think it has helped me to a conclusion.
The OFBiz shop (eCommerce app) is your site. In that case, you will want > your customer's look and feel, not the default one. This can be achieved by > modifying the CSS stylesheets as well as the decorators used in the OFBiz > screeens. Through that, if you familiarize yourself with the OFBiz widgets > toolkit as well as with FreeMarker templates, you have full control not only > over colors and fonts, but also over layout, you can switch elements on and > off, etc. I think this sounds like the best option. But how do I get the OFBiz app up and running? Are there companies who specialize in hosting the app? I've never heard of FreeMarker before, but I've found it on sourceforge and it seems fairly straightforward and not unlike many other templating mechanisms I have used, mostly in Perl. You are looking for a blended site, i.e. you have a website and you are > looking to "embed" OFBiz into it. This would be the way to go in case your > site is a lot more than just the shop or in case you are looking for a way > to present the products which is entirely different from the catalog model > that OFBiz implements. I don't think this is necessary, as you suggest this is only required if the shop is only a small part of the site. I think in the case I speak of the shop IS the site. In that case you have to decide if you treat OFBiz as an Engine (using SOAP > webservices mostly) and write a complete new frontend for it. That would > mean serious web application development; this is no longer web design. I'm not troubled by this idea, having designed and used SOAP webservices a lot before. However, as discussed above, I don't think this is necessary - I think your first option will do the job. So, I guess my next question is, where can I see a demo? And how do I get started in setting up the site shop? Thanks Jay
