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Originally Posted by totaltec
Brett Brewer! Welcome back man. I learned a lot from your posts when I was first getting started with XC.
I am biased toward the responsive skin. I spent weeks/months testing it, and I am sure it is 99% bug free. Ideal comfort is not a bad choice either. Of course if you want the most control possible, just work in the 3-columns skin. It certainly will be the most familiar, and it has the lightest payload in terms of code and file size.
I usually either start with ideal responsive, or 3-columns. It depends on how custom the job is. If I want something quick I use ideal comfort, since responsive design always takes more time. If I want something quick and optimized for mobile I use ideal responsive. If I want something truly custom, I start with 3-columns.
Formal answers to your questions:
1. Not sure. The major difference between when you were around and now is the template system itself.
2. Bug free? Probably 3-columns. None of the skins are HTML5.
3. I'd say Ideal Comfort / Ideal Responsive.
4. No other default skins are truly optimized for mobile, I think ideal responsive is pretty good in that department.
There are also some nice looking 3rd party templates out there, but most of them are bloated in my opinion. That's my two cents, hopefully we'll get some more feedback from the rest of the guys. Good to hear from you.
-Mike
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Thanks so much for your thoughtful post and kind words. I've missed the great x-cart developer community -- I'm glad people are still as friendly and helpful around here as I remember. I'm definitely leaning toward the "Ideal" skins. I'll probably play around with both and see which one is easiest for me to customize. Do you know if the Ideal Responsive skin uses a lot of media queries in the css or is it just straight old-school css and javascript with different skin files for different device sizes? I kinda prefer my css/js straight up with separate templates for mobile/desktop. Maybe I'm just stuck in my ways, but I don't like being forced to use the same document structure for mobile as for desktop since it seems clients always want a significantly different layout for something on mobile or desktop that is way harder to achieve without altering the underlying html structure and using different css/js for each. So I'm a little wary of responsive templates for that reason. Any thoughts on that?