Hey, lat9!

Thanks for the quick response and excellent observations! The reason to change is that my original website, www.heirloomstocherish.com, was Front Page-based and worked reasonably well for over 10 years, but boy was there a lot of work involved and we didn't even have a shopping cart! While we installed and refined Zen Cart, we kept the FP site going to sustain the business, so FP had the root and ZC had /catalog/. Now that we have converted the entire business to ZC, we have discontinued FP. For the past 12 years, our customers have been accustomed to typing in www.heirloomstocherish.com to get to our business, so I craeted a 301 redirect from there to www.heirloomstocherish.com/catalog. It works fine and the redirect is transparent. However, our business has tailed off in the past couple of years and we attribute it in part to a lack of good SEO - that was another driving factor for getting away from FP. Now that we are trying to optimize as much as practical for SEO, we feel the 301 Redirect is an unnecessary complication, and want to simplify getting to our site. Thus, I don't expect we will lose much in the way of rankings, which are probably in the toilet anyway.

I appreciate your noted corrections and additions. I apologize for not including my website address on the first email, but now that I have, maybe you can see if there's anything else I need to take into account when I switch.

You mentioned upgrading. I am on v1.5.1, and I noticed there is a .2 and .3 out there. Would it be best to upgrade before switching? Is now the right time to upgrade, or should I wait until .3 has had more time to stabilize before upgrading?

As always, any advice/suggestions you can give me are profoundly appreciated.

Thanks,
Phil