CS-Cart has slowly been working on new templates for the upcoming 2.0 release. Each template has a “theme” for a particular store front, which is also completely configurable and editable for your store. Here is an unofficial sample of what the new “Lingerie” template homepage will look like.

Lingerie Template

By using the Google API Library you can speed up your store by using Google’s content framework network.  Google offers high-speed and global access to many Javascript frameworks, including jQuery, which CS-Cart uses.

You will need to edit one .tpl file for this to work.

Open the file “common_templates/scripts.tpl” and look for this line

{script src="lib/jquery/jquery.js"}

You can replace this line with Googles direct link

{script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.2.6/jquery.min.js"}

Many users often wonder how to increase the speed of their site loading, an obvious answer: Images!! Loading a product listing page with 10,20,30 images can be significantly increased if your images are optimized for filesize.

Here is a great little Adobe Air tool (free) that you can batch resize all of your images with a few clicks!

Optimize your Images!