Charles, yes, this can be done -- but the person doing the work needs to have a good understanding of HTML and CSS, and be conversant with PHP and Smarty. Already knowing X-Cart is a plus -- if that's not there, add on some time to get familiar with it.
By 'conversant' I mean having entry-level programming skills and a familiarity with PHP and Smarty syntax. Page-level modifications of this kind are among the simplest of programming tasks, but they are programming -- you need to understand variables and control structures, plus templating concepts, at minimum.
The level of effort, assuming the skills above, depends largely on how complex the templates are and how far-reaching your changes are.
Without changing functionality (except for removing things I didn't need), it took me a weekend to convert the default skin to match an existing design, *after* having spent some time evaluating X-Cart and then some more installing it and poking around. So, 2 days to implement a simple design, by someone with modest X-Cart familiarity, good HTML/CSS and modest PHP skills.
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