Wikilime have teamed up with gomedia.us to give away 2 of their template packs to the person who creates the best T-shirt or Hoodie design.

The two template sets that are up for grabs are;

Distressed T-Shirt Templates
Basic Hoodie Templates

How to enter.

To enter all you need to do is;

1) Design a t-shirt or hoodie based on the theme ‘Funk the Force’

2) For the ‘Funk the Force’ theme we are looking for designs that are based on the starwars film. You can take any element of the film to create your design but make sure you add your own funk!

3) Once you have completed your design email it to luke [at] wikilime.net

All design entries will be posted to our competition gallery @ http://competition.wikilime.net and the winner will be voted for by the public.

The closing date for this competition is 31st August 2009. Good luck!

I’m going to quickly show you the best way to style your store. Firstly we are going to take a look at the CSS code.

Editing your stores CSS code.
There are many CSS editors available for the PC and Mac. Here at Wikilime we mainly use Dreamweaver for building sites from scratch, but if you don’t have a copy of Dreamweaver fear not! There is a better way to build your store.

Firstly make sure you have a copy of the Firefox web browser installed, no designer should be without it! Once you have this you need to download the Firebug plugin from here. When you have this installed you are all set to go!

Log into your stores control panel and open up the ‘Design’ tab. In here you will see a button labelled ‘CSS’ click this to open up the CSS editor.

Next we need to open up a new browser window (in Firefox). Open a new window and navigate to the main address of your store. You should be faced with something similar to the below image.

On the status bar of your Firefox browser you should see the following icon.

Click this and the Firebug window will open just below your Wikilime store. Using this window means you can edit the CSS for your store directly.

If you click on the ‘CSS tab’ and then the link labeled ‘theme.css’ this will open up the CSS template that your store runs from. Next if you click on the ‘edit tab’ you will be able to edit the code. As you change the values in here your store will update allowing you to quickly see the updates.

The changes you make in Firebug will not be saved. In order to save your changes you simply need to copy the amended code from the Firebug window and paste it into the CSS window within your control panel.

Click the ’save ‘ button and the changes are now live! Our next tutorial will show you how to identify the different elements that make up your Wikilime shopping cart.

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CNAME alias name = www
Alias points to = <your_wikilime_store>.wikilime.net

Once you have done this, log into your Wikilime control panel. Open up the ‘Settings’ tab and scroll down to the input field called ‘Store Domain’.

In here you need to type the URL of the domain name you wish to use. Click the Save button and that’s it! your done!