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[B00MER]

Some of the possibilities with a CSS based layout/design:
http://www.csszengarden.com/

I encourage anyone who does purchase the skin to take full advantage of its possibilities, and advantages.

Some other good reading:
http://www.hotdesign.com/seybold/

[jsa]

Originally Posted by B00MER

Some of the possibilities with a CSS based layout/design:
http://www.csszengarden.com/

I encourage anyone who does purchase the skin to take full advantage of its possibilities, and advantages.

Some other good reading:
http://www.hotdesign.com/seybold/

Yeah, the thing is definitely rad. Cool links, too!

I'm not a developer, though. Just a lowly merchant. heh.

So, B00MER, will other developers be allowed to license this (buy a pack, pay a royalty, however you want to charge them) as a base?
It'd be cool to see specialized template developers (like 7dana) use this as a base.

A slightly more expensive rounded one for a bit more, or a pre-cutified version for $200 or something would be appealing to me. I'd go with a fullout custom job, but I don't have the funds at the moment. (maybe the next month or two, around the time 4.1 is finalized)

[Mr Bob]

So will other developers be allowed to license this as a base?

- It doesn't say you can resell it anywhere- I would assume that you could not. Earlier about the "Good starting point for developers and designers" That means that developers who are trying to build a website that validates, would save their time by beginning with this layout.

I would love to see a version that only uses tables for displaying data.

[B00MER]

Originally Posted by Mr Bob

- It doesn't say you can resell it anywhere- I would assume that you could not. Earlier about the "Good starting point for developers and designers" That means that developers who are trying to build a website that validates, would save their time by beginning with this layout.

I would love to see a version that only uses tables for displaying data.

I do offer reseller licenses at a discount, Contact me via Cart-Lab.com if you would like further details.

What do you mean by "a version that only uses tables..." could you elaborate a bit?

[B00MER]

Some other CSS related articles:

Intro to CSS:
http://www.yourhtmlsource.com/stylesheets/introduction.html

SEO and W3C compliance:
http://evolt.org/w3c-compliance-and-seo

SEO Benefits of CSS:
http://www.devwebpro.com/devwebpro-39-20050919SEOBenefitsOfCSS.html

[Mr Bob]

What do you mean by "a version that only uses tables..." could you elaborate a bit?

- Most XHTML/CSS based websites only use tables for displaying data, not just plain text.

Why have a menu displayed like this:

<tbody><tr> 
<td class="VertMenuTitle">[img]/demo/skin1/images/dingbats_categorie.gif[/img]
<font class="VertMenuBoxNewsTitle">Categories</font>
</td>
</tr>
<tr> 
<td class="VertMenuBox"> 
 <table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="100%">

When you can achive the same thing by:

<div class="menuItems">

Basically, take what you have, and go further with it.

[B00MER]

Majority of the CSS Skin tpls are similar to this:

<div id="container">
<div id="header">Header</div>
<div id="content">Content</div>
</div>

[Mr Bob]

Yeah, I noticed that, which is why I noted how much time/work you have put into it. There are still files though that use tables that don't need to.

[marcgeldon]

Will the skin be updated with newest X-Cart versions and do your customers get always the newest version?

Is it only optimized on the customer side or also on the admin side (customer side would be enough).

Hope to hear from you soon.


Best wishes,

Marc

[B00MER]

Originally Posted by explido

Will the skin be updated with newest X-Cart versions and do your customers get always the newest version?

Is it only optimized on the customer side or also on the admin side (customer side would be enough).

Yes, the X-Cart CSS skin will be update along side X-Cart releases until a similar implementation is standard.

The admin side is NOT converted to all CSS, if I did I would never of gotten this released, as there are 2x as many files on admin side. However the design and such does fit the same look and feel. The customer side, catalog pages and checkout templates are heavily customized from out-of-box.