[mmasterson]

Just a quick question - I have a contractor developing a 4.4 skin for me and when they install it on my test server it appears some of the files in skin/common_files directory have been modified and apparently break the default skins shipped in the product.

The skin they are starting with is the newer 2-column skin shipped in 4.4, but should they have to modify files in common_files?
Is this an optimal solution and best practice for 4.4?

I'd like to be able to switch between themes and also ensure that as fixes are made to common elements via patches that they are as easy to apply as possible.

Thanks for your input!