Free X-Cart 4.2 skins
 

Hi folks,

We glad to announce release of the following free css-based skins for X-Cart 4.2:
- Artistic Tunes: Business
- Artistic Tunes: Car Tires
- Artistic Tunes: Fragrances
- Artistic Tunes: Water Colour
- Fashion Mosaic: Blue
- Fashion Mosaic: Green
- Fashion Mosaic: Grey
- Fashion Mosaic: Pink
- Neon Lights: Flowers
- Neon Lights: Household
- Neon Lights: Music
- Neon Lights: Sport
- Vivid Dreams: Aquamarine
- Vivid Dreams: Lotus
- Vivid Dreams: Violet

You can see the skins at http://xcart-demo.qualiteam.biz/

Skins are available under "Files" section at https://secure.qualiteam.biz

Comments are appreciated :-)

Best regards,

Re: Free X-Cart 4.2 skins
 

Well done - W3C compliant as well! :)

Re: Free X-Cart 4.2 skins
 

Amazing, thanks a lot, this will finally make us able to upgrade to 4.2!

One minor issue:
I love the way the new skins dynamically adapt to the width of the browser window. However the Fashion Mosaic skin doesn't, it's still fixedwidth optimized for a 800x600 browser. Would it be hard to also make this skin variable width?

Regards, Robert.

Re: Free X-Cart 4.2 skins
 

4.2 is still not stable.

Re: Free X-Cart 4.2 skins
 

Why do you say that? Just wondering. We actually just switched to xcart, but we are not sure what version to us right now to set up our store.

What do you recommend?

Re: Free X-Cart 4.2 skins
 

I say it because its true :)

Re: Free X-Cart 4.2 skins
 

I will go ahead and use v4.1.11 until v5 is released I guess.

Any suggestions on what addons are a must?

We will be ecommerce for health and beauty products, so easy 1 page checkout is a must.

Re: Free X-Cart 4.2 skins
 

[quote=lostcan]I will go ahead and use v4.1.11 until v5 is released I guess.

4.1..x or any vesion. Does it make any difference.
Have you thought about future plans. Any 4.1.x cart is not PA-DSS certified. As you may know, as of July 1, 2010 you will be required to use a PA-DSS certified shopping cart if you want to accept credit card payments ON your site. So if QT decided not to make carts certified my suggestion wait for v5.

Re: Free X-Cart 4.2 skins
 

[quote=hramani]

I won't be able to wait for a year we will lose revenue. I will upgrade once v5 is released and its stable. It says the v5.0 will be PA-DSS certified as far as I read in the forum. Also if they are really releasing it end of 2009 now. I believe it should be a stable version hopefully within month after the release

Re: Free X-Cart 4.2 skins
 

I recommend you to create your online store with X-Cart 4.2 (that has more useful features than 4.1.x has) unless you need a third-party add-on unavailable for 4.2. Although it has a few bugs, patches are already available and will be provided to you by our support staff upon your request.

There are X-Cart users not recommending 4.2 for live stores because they remember how many bugs had been found in 4.0.0 and 4.1.0 version. It is not the case for 4.2 and the list of known 4.2 bugs is very limited when compared to 4.0.0 and 4.1.0 versions.

X-Cart 4.2.0 has almost the same code base the most recent 4.1.x version has; the changes to the core functionality are minimal (4.0.0 has a new core when compared with 3.5.x, the same for 4.0.x->4.1.0). You can even say that 4.2.0 is 4.1.x with several new features and a css-based skin. The main reason why it is 4.2.0 and not 4.1.12 is our decision to not mix new features and bug-fixes in minor releases. All future 4.1.x versions will include bug-fixes only that will make applying of the patches much easier for you.

Re: Free X-Cart 4.2 skins
 

You said patches are officially available from QT?

Re: Free X-Cart 4.2 skins
 

Great initiative to publish these free templates; am I wrong in assuming that these are all former commercial templates that used to be available for the 4.1.x branche?

p.s. I have great experiences with 4.2 until now :)

Re: Free X-Cart 4.2 skins
 

Yes. However they were re-written and are CSS-based now (no tables).
Also one new template( Vivid Dreams) was added.

Re: Free X-Cart 4.2 skins
 

Thanks for the heads up Eugene! :)

Re: Free X-Cart 4.2 skins
 

Yes, our support staff will provide you with available bug-fix patches on known 4.2 bugs upon your request in the private members area at https://secure.qualiteam.biz.

Re: Free X-Cart 4.2 skins
 

Thank you xplorer...

Re: Free X-Cart 4.2 skins
 

Is there a reason why bug fixes are not published and must be individually requested?

Re: Free X-Cart 4.2 skins
 

My guess would be that these patches could inadvertently break 3rd-party plugins/mods, and unless are experiencing a specific issue, you might not even need any patches.

Re: Free X-Cart 4.2 skins
 

I can understand this. However, I've had customers say to me "XX is not working for me" and when I try to reproduce the error I'm not able to. It would be very beneficial if there were just a list of bug fixes available. An official list where we could turn to before searching the forum \ making posts \ waiting for a reply on support desk.

Re: Free X-Cart 4.2 skins
 

Where can I find the free skins for 4.3? Are they available?
Thanks
Gita

Re: Free X-Cart 4.2 skins
 

They should be in the 4.3 installation

Re: Free X-Cart 4.2 skins
 

They are in 4.3.1 as well.

Re: Free X-Cart 4.2 skins
 

any more free templates for x-cart 3.1?