I am maintaining a magento shop and its sort of messy now with age. Also want to implement a fresh design. Current version is 1.7.0.2. I am thinking of making a fresh install and build a new theme to leave behind all the mess (many programmers have worked on it). I came across this blog - http://www.2hatslogic.com/blog/importing-data-to-new-version-install-of-magento-cleanup-easy . If it works as said in the article, that would be exactly what I want. Do you think its possible as in the blog article?
I know that the DB changes with the newer versions for the imported DB tables might not be carried over since the core_resource table have updated version number for each modules, but if I copy this table as well, then Magneto should update all tables with the set up SQL and it should all be fine I assume?
Thanks in advance! Aneesh