Enhanced User Interface
Screen Captures

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Please note that in many of these Screen Captures, the E-UI is turned on and is adding many default Enhanced Features.
	E-UI installed as a System Extension Module.
Category/Thumbnail Display
	A Before and After Screen Shot of the Category Tree showing the Category Footer. Merchant places the Footer underneath the last Category Item where it appears to be another Category. E-UI places the Footer at the Bottom of the Category Tree and Centers it.
	Product display screen without the E-UI. Notice that Merchant places the Category Footer underneath the last Category Item and is not centered.
	Product display screen using E-UI. The Category Footer is at the Bottom of the Category Tree and is centered.
	Thumbnail Display with the Category gap removed. The gap is the extra space between the Category Tree and the Product listings. The gap is there for aesthetic purposes but you can remove it if you want to.
	Product Display with the Category gap removed. The gap is the extra space between the Category Tree and the Product listings. The gap is there for aesthetic purposes but you can remove it if you want to.
Product Display
Merchant 3 notes: You may now replace the standard Form Buttons with your own images. The Buttons are placed in their own table cells and now have a very small gap between them, due to the table padding and cell spacing that is used. Because the spacing is so small and no buttons are provided, the following screen shots and descriptions are applicable to Merchant 3 as well.
	With standard Merchant, the Purchase Buttons butt up against each other.
	With the E-UI, extra space is placed between the Purchase Buttons to separate them and make them more distinctive.
	The same Purchase Buttons, except that Images are displayed instead of the standard HTML Form Buttons. With extra space between them, of course!
	Thumbnail Display with Buy 1 Now button Removed and the Add 1 to Basket button changed to a More Info button. Clicking the button brings up the Extended Display for that product.
	Thumbnail Display with Add 1 To Basket button changed to a More Info button and a Buy 1 Now button. Clicking the More Info button brings up the Extended Display for that product.
	Product Attribute Text Box with standard Merchant. The Text Box is quite long and forces a screen width larger than 800 pixels (as can be seen by clicking on the thumbnail).
	Product Attribute Text Box with the E-UI. The Text Box is set to a width of 25 characters. You can even make the Text box smaller if you want!
	Product List screen. This is an example showing how the Purchase Buttons can be removed from all screens when the product price is 0.
Customer Signup and Login
	Customer Account Signup - the standard Merchant way. When a customer creates a new account, Merchant prompts for the Ship To information first and the Bill To information second. Customers are asked for Ship To information even though all they are wanting to do is to create a Bill To account with your Store. Click the thumbnail and make note of the Ship To and Bill To Names.
	Customer Account Signup - the E-UI way. When creating a new account, customers are asked only for the Bill To information. Since they are not shipping anything at this point, E-UI doesn't ask them for shipping information. The fields are also arranged in a more logical order. The account belongs to the person paying the bill, not the person where orders might be sent. Click the thumbnail and make note of the Bill To Name.
	Category Display showing the Welcome Back (Customer Account link) message. This is the standard Merchant generated display with the E-UI turned off. Notice anything peculiar about the Name? Isn't that the Ship To name? Click on the thumbnail to see what's wrong here.
	Category Display showing the Welcome Back (Customer Account link) message, this time using the E-UI. Notice that the Name is different from the one shown above. The Name is actually the Bill To name - the account holder and the one paying for the charges! Click on the thumbnail for more details.
Purchase Screens
	Customer Information prompts with standard Merchant. Ship To is presented first, Bill To second. The fields are disorganized and are not presented in the way a person normally fields out Address information.
	Customer Information prompts with E-UI. Bill To is presented first and a customer only needs to fill out the Ship To information if an order is to be sent to a different address. Address fields are presented in a more logical manner.
	Customer Information on the Shipping, Payment, and Invoice screens the way standard Merchant does it. Field labels are displayed. Ship To and Bill To are backwards. The Country Code is displayed instead of the Country Name.
	Customer Information on the Shipping, Payment, and Invoice screens the E-UI way. Field labels are not displayed since customers pretty much know what their first name and last name are! Company and FAX is not displayed if that information was not provided. Bill To is presented first. The Country Name is displayed instead of its Code.

The E-UI provides many more features than the ones presented in these Screen Shots. For instance, you can change the Bill To and the Ship To text to display anything you want. You can remove the Product Code as well as the Weight display. You can change the Quantity display so that it says "Number of Nights" (very useful for Merchants selling Hotel Reservations). You can remove the Purchase Buttons from the Thumbnail displays. You can also remove any thing that has to do with Shipping, and this includes the Ship To portion of the Customer Information screens as well as the Shipping Method drop down list.

Please note that E-UI and Merchant differ on who is the shipee and who is the payee. Merchant considers all customers to be the "shipee". E-UI considers all customers to be the "payee" and a shipping address is asked for only if the address is different and only if the site owner wishes. This allows you to remove the shipping portion of your Merchant store if you sell Reservations or Downloadable Software.

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