With the latest releases of Quick Shopping Cart® (QSC), we've been including templates and themes that match templates in our WebSite Tonight® (WST) product. By applying the same template to both applications, you can maintain a custom Web site in WebSite Tonight and run a matching eCommerce site with Quick Shopping Cart, giving your customers a more seamless and enjoyable shopping experience.
We've also released a feature of our navigation editor that allows you more customization control to closely tie your different site accounts together. We take a look at this feature in this article.

Select Your WST Site Template

Start with your WebSite Tonight site. In WST, from the Design menu, select Template and Color to select a template. It may take a few minutes to find a template that is available for both WST and QSC. Here I've chosen "Global" in WST; its counterpart in QSC is "Global 2 – A,"



Customize the navigation
After selecting a template for your WST site, you can customize your navigation to allow customers to more easily move back and forth between the two sites.



From the Design menu, select Page Designer and then double-click the menubar to open the Edit Navigation window. Click Add New Button. Under Type, select URL. Enter the URL of your published Quick Shopping Cart site, and then enter a label. I’ve used "Store" for this example. Click OK to save your changes. Publish your WST site.



 
Select your QSC site template

Now, let’s customize your Quick Shopping Cart. In QSC, from the Storefront menu, click Templates. In category menu, select New. Locate the template you used for your WST site. In this example, I used "Global 2 –A," which is the corollary to WST's "Global" theme. Once you've selected the template, click Save.




Customize the QSC menu

After selecting the template for your QSC site, you can customize QSC's menubar to link to your WST site.
From the Storefront menu, select Menu Customization. In the Main Menu, click Add to open the Menu Item editor. In the Page menu, select WebSite Tonight. Because you should enter a label that matches your WST site, which defaults to "Home Page," it is best to enter “Home” or "Home Page" in the label field. Then, in the WST Account menu, select the WST account that you're linking to. In the Target menu, specify which window or frame in which you want the page to open.



Note: 

If you purchased your WST site in a different Go Daddy account than the account with which you purchased your QSC site, your WST site will not display in the WST Account menu. To remedy this issue, in the Page menu, select Custom, and enter the URL that points to your published WST site. Click Save, and then publish your QSC site.

Your WST and QSC accounts now display the same template and are linked. If your users click Store on your Web site, they are taken to your QSC storefront; and if they click Home Page on the storefront, they are returned to your Web site. This same technique could also be used, for example, to link from the WST site to your QSC Contact page.

Our Sample Sites, Together