[carpeperdiem]

let's teach you how to fish...

1. admin section
2. webmaster mode (ignore the pop-up window/debugging console for now)
3. open customer area in new window (click on link - ignore any pop-up windows)
4.place two items in a cart
5. checkout
6. log in (or enter customer info)

OK, now you are on the page in question, right?

Now go to that pop-up "debugging" window.

Hover over the various pages -- find the template that you need to edit -- it will "outline" when you hover over it. Careful - some templates are nested...

In your case, the template that you want to edit it:

/customer/main/cart_contents.tpl

Click on the template name in the debugging window and an editing page opens up. I'm on a mac, so unless the edit is obvious, I usually copy the code, make a new document in dreamweaver (code) - then view as design/code -- in this case, you cn clearly see the class="TableHead" for the head, and class='TableSubHead' for the products...

(you edit these values in your css file)

While you're here... you might want to comment out these sections of code:

{if $cart.display_cart_products_tax_rates eq "Y"}
<TD align="center"><h6>{if $cart.product_tax_name ne ""}{$cart.product_tax_name}{else}{$lng.lbl_tax}{/if}</h6></TD>
{/if}

and

{if $cart.display_cart_products_tax_rates eq "Y"}
<TD align="center">
  <h6>{foreach from=$products[prod_num].taxes key=tax_name item=tax}
  {if $cart.product_tax_name eq ""}<NOBR>{$tax.tax_display_name}:</NOBR>{/if}
  {if $tax.rate_type eq "%"}{$tax.rate_value}%{else}{include file="currency.tpl" value=$tax.rate_value}{/if}

  {/foreach}
  </h6></TD>
{/if}

because - you do not need the tax rate for each item in the list (typically) -- most US based retailers have the same sales tax rate on all taxable items (unless you don't).

Change your colors in the CSS file.
learn which class is involved from the code... use a tool like dreamweaver to make it easier.

I hope this is not too basic... I'm by no means an expert, but I have learned some basic skills.

if you are going to build an xcart store that is not stock, you need to be able to edit these templates...

keep reading!

good luck.