having a second website that only 'sees' a certain section

[houndour]

My Client wants to have another website (so a different host and different domain) where one section of the main shopping site has it's own website.

Don't know if that's clear.

So....www.mainwebsite.com has the entire shop.
www.differentwebsite.com has one section of the shop.

So that the stocking levels are the same, surely the section of the 2nd website needs to really point at the same pages of the main website?

It makes more sense to me, to have an index page on www.differentwebsite.com that points only to the products specified for that site, but if you looked at the url it'd be www.mainwebsite.com/acatalog when you went to the product pages? But there are ways so that that it could look like it hasn't changed site? like putting in a frame?

The only thing is when the customer went 'shopping' on www.differentwebsite.com they would see all the sections listed because it would have the pages that mainwebsite uses.

Has anyone else had something similar? Or got any ideas? The customer just isn't willing to pay, so anything requiring building new templates is out of the question really.

Sam

[Nadeem]

Hi there

My Client wants to have another website (so a different host and different domain) where one section of the main shopping site has it's own website.

The above suggests you just want one section within its own website, which can be done by licencing a new site in Actinic, create a snapshot from your previous site and import it in the new site, and cut out all section except for one.
Is this what you want? If so, what version are you running, Catalog, Business or Developer. If it Catalog or Business, then you will need to purchase a new licence.
You cannot upload two catalog sites on different domain using the same licence key.

However having a 'redirect' to one section from www.differentwebsite.com to point to a section (eg www.mainwebsite.com/acatalog/section1.html) may cause issue. Because you may get third party cookie error, as you going from one server to another. Also the user has the ability to go to another section, and when you add to cart and checkout, you will be redirected to www.mainwebsite.com. So these are some things to think about.

Kind Regards