Zen Cart Tips and Tricks

Here’s a quick tip for you! It might not change your life, but will make life easier when adding new featured and special products. It’s always annoyed me that the box where you select the product to feature or add as a special is so small. 5 lines to be precise. So I set about making that box show more lines, therefore making it easier to see the products. Read the rest of this entry »

Took a break from the normal goings on and create 3 coloured button sets for Zen Cart. There is a blue set, red and green. If you would like to see them in more colours, let me know which colour you would like and I’ll get them posted up. This set have been create for use on a white background, but again, let me know if you want them on a different colour.

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One of the problems I find with e-commerce sites is it’s difficult to get chunks of content for search engines to get a hold off.  E-commerce sites tend to be product images, one liner product titles, with the best opportunity of getting any real keyword-rich content being the product description or category description. It’s important to have good product & category descriptions, not just for search engines, but your customers as well. Read the rest of this entry »

I decided to try and recreate the play.com web site layout in Zen Cart. Just because I thought it might be a good way to show how flexible the Zen Cart template system can be. Plus it was a good excuse to not have to do my accounts Read the rest of this entry »

If you’ve got a standard setup of Zen Cart using the default template then to change the width a Zen Cart site open includes/templates/classic/css/stylesheet.css with your favourite editor.

Search that file for #mainWrapper you’ll see a line under it saying width: 750px (or whatever the current width is). Just change the 750 to the pixel width you require or 100% if you want the site to fit the width of the browser.

If you are using a template or different template setup then just search for #mainWrapper within the stylesheet.css file and you should find it.

Hope this helps?