This post announces the arrival of future Zen v1.2. Which at the time of posting is awaiting moderator approval in the Zen Cart Downloads area.

Version 1.2 continues to meet the original three objectives

designed to meet three objectives:
1. To provide new users with a starting point that is as appealing as the classic template but doesn't have the headaches that are played out over and over again in this forum
2. To show how much can be done with almost no effort by harnessing the power of the template_default and CSS
3. To be trivial to install

It also still consists of just 11 files, 8 of which are images including a screenshot. The other files two are a stylesheet that does most of the work, the obligatory template_info.php file and the installation instructions. And yes, the template still has no php changes and requires no php knowledge.

The main change since the previous version is that it uses the sliding door approach to background images, allowing the layout to be either fixed or liquid. Sidebox widths however, are still fixed at 150px, though users designing their own sidebox images can easily change this.