Below is a list of the files inside the admin area that are open source and can be edited in the free version of AFCommerce. If you ever need to customize the entire admin area, you would have to buy the open source version. This fee and our add ons is how this project is supported, you can tell by the price that it's not the value of the AFCommerce software. Carts will 1/10th of the features sell for hundreds or even thousand of dollars and don't have even close to the features or documentation of AFCommerce. The price also allows you to remove the Powered By AFCommerce links at the bottom of your pages. I don't push anyone to upgrade, or use fake testimonials like all paid carts do, I encrypted the admin area and some of the functions to help prevent these companies from downloading my software and stealing my features for free. It still happens unfortunately, but at least I can find them faster this way. In a few years, all shopping carts will be free, they are just too common now for people to be buying them, and all of the best are already free.

adminstyle.css

This file is a basic style sheet for your admin area. There are no custom classes in this file because I felt that was unnecessary for the admin area since most people like to have a basic professional look to it, and since no one except the store owner sees it, I didn't see a need to make it too involved. You can change the background and text colors, as well as, the link color of all of your admin area pages.

customadminfooter.php

This file is inside the admin area for you to add a custom footer for the entire admin area. All main admin pages add this file to the bottom of each page. I suggest putting a banner for your company if your a web developer, your own advertising links, OR links to your own documentation and services. If you add your own advertising, you MUST not add more than one block of ads to conform with the AFCommerce Free Public License Agreement. If you go overboard you will make the admin area look unprofessional, which is both bad for your own reputation, as well as, the reputation of AFCommerce.

custom-index-links.php

This file is left open source so you can edit the links on the admin area's home page. I doubt anyone would ever want to remove any of the default links, but you can if you want to. You can also add new links to pages that you create for your own features or documentation. YOU MAY NOT ADD ANY ADVERTISING IN THIS PART OF THE ADMIN AREA TO COMPLY WITH THE AFCommerce Free Public License Agreement. This would be a bad place to add advertising because it will mess up the positioning of the add on links below the standard block of links (and icons), and also make the admin area look unprofessional. If you would like to add your own advertising to the admin area, you may do so in the customadminfooter.php file.

Add On Notice: I figured that the best way to motivate developers to help me promote my add ons was to create the AFCommerce Affiliate Program and the AFCommerce Reseller Program. These programs will be free to join from their initial release, which should be around mid March 2006, and will remain free to join until at least August 2006. After that a fee may be required to become a reseller, but the affiliate program will always be free to join.

developeraffid.php

This file is inside the admin area to give you basically the same information found on this page. It explains the basics of the AFCommerce affiliate and reseller programs.