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[matthewstroh]

Has anyone had any success with the CSS template for 4.1.x offered by Cart-Lab or BCSE? I'm assuming that they're the same product offered from two sources.

I'm looking to knock away as many tables as possible as X-cart relies so heavily on them, but am wondering if I were to use this product if it would cause problems with updates/mods in the future. It's nice that it comes with tabbed navigation on product details page.

Also, was it pretty to implement?

CSS Template for 4.1.x From Cart-Lab:
http://www.cart-lab.com/X-Cart-version-41x-CSS-Template-p-113.html

CSS Template for 4.1.x From BCS Engineering:
http://www.bcsengineering.com/store/customer/product.php?productid=200&cat=0&page=1

Thanks

[balinor]

Moving to Third Party Add-Ons. I'd also suggest this one which looks pretty good:

http://www.xcartmods.co.uk/category/x-cart-templates/

CSS is great, but you have to remember that there are two major drawbacks to using it with X-Cart:

1. You will have to manually upgrade and patch files when updates come out
2. You will have to do a lot of work to integrate a lot of the third party mods

Having said that we use a mostly CSS skin for most of our cart installations, and find it to be a much cleaner, easier to use system and loads much faster due to about 1/4 the code.