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[thesnow]

This makes no sense....

What have you "backed up" ?

The OVER_RIDE system is a critical and important function of this software. Performance has nothing to do with "number of folders". Zencart will select appropriate resources from whatever source it needs them from - and the "over-ride" system means just that... It will "by-pass" core files, when a valid over-ride file exists.

In fact, it assists greater efficiency, so get busy with your custom template BEFORE you do any more work in "classic".

The "classic" template has very important diagnostic functions which (in time) you will be grateful for.

Basically for example: in the directory tree::includes/templates/classic/css/stylesheet.css , i would also have the original file untouched in the same directory, includes/templates/classic/css/stylesheet_bckup.css
Probably right..making my life more complicated.. its not a big site very simple straight forward..

[fairestcape]

Basically for example: in the directory tree::includes/templates/classic/css/stylesheet.css , i would also have the original file untouched in the same directory, includes/templates/classic/css/stylesheet_bckup.css

Well, that's going to give you problems right away. Zencart will call in ALL stylesheets with a .css extension, so your site will now load with the stylesheet.css AND its backup, and one will just over-ride the other.

I hope you haven't been doing the same with php files.

As schoolboy says, there are some critical protocols that need to be observed. It is important that you take advice on these issues and don't go off like a bull in a china shop, blindly believing that what you are doing "is OK".

Sorry to sound like a spinster school mistress approaching menopause, but if you carry on down the route you are taking you will spend many hours on the forum in tears later on.