Rick devoted the next day to getting a working demo of Marty’s website up and running. Using the graphics on Marty’s existing site as a starting off point, he updated them, making them more modern and streamlined, less homemade and more professional-looking. Then he inserted them into a template, played around with the layout and stylesheet a bit until he was happy with the way everything looked, and got to work on a plugin to import products from a spreadsheet. Marty had given him one of the inventory files to use, which helped Rick map the fields properly.
He worked fast, but there were a lot of little kinks here and there he had to work out, things he only caught when trying to use the site the way it was meant to be used. But he was in the zone, lost in a virtual world of code where h
