Hi,
Well you have started in the right place if you ask me - making x-cart fit your design. That way you get the site you want in the end. A lot of people would start the other way and try and make their design fit x-cart.
Of course the 2nd option is much easier, and to do it this way, you really need to know what you are doing - but it will be worth it in the end.
I don't know what the other people have told you, but surely they mentioned the very steep learning curve that x-cart has?
Right, to answer your question: find Webmaster mode in admin - that way you will find the templates you need to edit for whatever you are doing.
Your design actually will fit x-cart quite well. The top section will basically go in the skin1/head.tpl template.
Then look at skin1/customer/home.tpl and you will see how the page is built up. Don't forget x-cart is a combination of tables and css. So the styles are applied in skin1.css.
Your alternative is to ask a developer to integrate your design - as I say, your design is very straightforward and could be done in a fraction of the time it would take you to learn all the different templates. As a business consultant, I would suggest that option, because then your time would be better spent doing what you know and do best. I'm sure your time is valuable, but if you do want to learn how to do this, then this forum will be absolutley invaluable.
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