installing additional templates at localhost

[dancingbay]

I have XAMPP installed and have installed Zen Cart at localhost and it's working fine. I want to try a couple of free templates out, but cannot figure out how to install them. These are templates I found at http://(sorry, site offline)/.

I've only found one post on this forum (2010) and the person asking the question was told that they shouldn't work from localhost.

Well, I want to work from localhost right now because I don't want to trash my current site which is using WordPress and Cart66. I'm testing out some shopping carts to see if any will work better that what I currently have.

So, could someone please tell me how to add these templates to the latest install of Zen Cart at localhost. I've downloaded 4 of them (Alyssa Rounded, Apparel Boutique, Earthy Boutique, and Pink Boutique) and put them all in a folder called downloaded_templates. I've been writing html since 1995 and PHP/MySQL since 2001, so do know how to use FTP, set permissions, ect...

If it looks like Zen Cart will work for me, then I will install it on my site. I use HostGator and ZenCart is one of the shopping carts that can be installed from the control panel.

Thanks,
Alisa