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I was thinking how to make the template/skin-design and display process easier and more standard for x-cart

Here are some thoughts inspired from other software ...

This will help x-cart to go further and will create many sites selling x-cart templates

This is just a rough draft,

1- I found that the main files changed in any new skin / template are

- Rectangle_top.tpl
- Rectangle_botton.tpl
- Customer/home.tpl
- Head.tpl
- Dialog.tpl
- Skin1.css
- <IMAGES FOLDER>

2- to enable site templates/skins, we need to change the structure of x-cart a little
we need to have a structure like this

x-cart
-| skin1
-----| templates
-----------| skin1
-----------| skin2
-----------| skin3
---------------| images
---------------| Rectangle_top.tpl
---------------| Rectangle_botton.tpl
---------------| Customer/home.tpl
---------------| Head.tpl
---------------| Dialog.tpl
---------------| Skin3.css

3- now every template folder should the have the above files in step1
and an xml file defining the template info like

<name>template red</name>
<cssFile>Skin3.css</cssFile>
<imageFolder>images</imageFolder>

Б─╕..

4- now when a customer buys a new skin, he gets a folder with the previous files in compressed formats
he uploaded it to his pc

5- then in the admin site, we can have a tool to upload new skins, the system browse for the folder Б─°zip formatБ─² and create a new folder under Б─°TemplatesБ─² folder in x-cart

5- then admin have the choice to set default template from the available templates to be displayed on site

what do you guys think[img][/img][img][/img]

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any skin designers here?
do you agree ....

this will make it much easier for clients to buy and upload new skins to their carts?
don't you agree ?