I help with templates all the time and would not touch it myself. To suggest that I am here to denigrate versus assist is not sustainable. I believe it is most helpful to point out flaws that, without a doubt, will cause lower rankings and less traffic.

As often stated, my goal is to assist Zen Cart and its users. I would be remiss if I suggested someone try to make this template work when Zen Cart provides a much better platform on which to build what the storeowner wants.

Here's why I said what I did when I compared results of the site's home page versus ZC 2.0 RC2.

Existing Template
CSS - 55 Errors 1054 Warnings
HTML - 9 Errors 35 Warnings
Acccessibility - 9 Critical 27 Serious 37 Moderate 1 Minor
Lighthouse - Desktop 54 78 96 100 Mobile 38 74 93 100


ZC 2.0.0 RC2*
CSS - 14 Errors 671 Warnings**
HTML - 0 Errors 0 Warnings
Accessibility - 0 Automatic Errors***
Lighthouse - Desktop 100 100 100 100 Mobile 95 100 100 100


* The testing for ZC 2.0 was done with the latest Bootstrap, OPC, EO, and a database upgrade from 1.5.7d of a customer's site.


** All errors and all but 8 warnings are from outside sources.

*** No automatic tool can check things like hover contrast, text embedded in images, and other items not present without user interaction.

I simply can't suggest that someone continue down this rabbit whole and maintain a clear conscience.

Even a developer with new/limited abilities in Bootstrap would at the least have a clean canvas to work with and the storeowner can devote the "fix it first" cost to actual "style it" cost.