The complete, visual step-by-step guide to Zen Cart CSS is here!

Zen Cart CSS Guide - A complete guide to Zen Cart StylesheetsZen Cart version 1.39 CompatibleSave yourself hours of time and effort (and pulling your hair out!) with this complete 82-page guide.

The Classic stylesheet.css is explored line by line – complete with images of which components are effected by which CSS rule.  Each element is fully commented and there are even quick CSS lessons for the most popular CSS selectors and their properties.

Zen Cart CSS Guide – A complete guide to Zen Cart Stylesheets is available now for immediate download.

  
     

Recent Updates

Disable Text Pricing by word or letter to increase Zen Cart performance

August 29th, 2010

If you’re not using the Text Pricing by word or letter feature in Zen Cart, setting Enable Text Pricing by word or letter to False will stop unnecessary calculations and related queries and therefore speed up the rendering of your store’s product pages. To disable text pricing by word or letter in Zen Cart: Log [...]

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Do your online store pages load in 2 seconds or less?

August 26th, 2010

A survey of 1,048 online shoppers revealed that two seconds is the new threshold in terms of their expectation for a web page to load and that 40% of shoppers will wait no more than three seconds before abandoning a retail or travel site. In a similar study in 2006 it was found that four [...]

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Online Store Blog Idea #2: Share a behind the scenes look

August 23rd, 2010

In this type of blog post, we share an angle of our business that we might not normally make public.  For example, you might take your readers and customers along to the next trade fair you attend or show them the new equipment you have just had installed and the benefits it will provide. Inviting [...]

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Display a Search Box on ‘Page Not Found’ page in Zen Cart

August 21st, 2010

It’s important to use the ‘Page Not Found’ page in Zen Cart as another selling page in Zen Cart.  It is much more than just an error message.  A Search Box is another option in your toolkit that can help increase the effectiveness of the ‘Page Not Found’ page. To add the search box on [...]

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Store in Spotlight

August 26th, 2010
brandmode

brandmode

This week the Zen Cart store in the spotlight is the school and corporate uniform business Brandmode.  I LOVE the look of this Zen Cart store!  Each page is well balanced – in the use of colour, images and content.    The product and checkout pages are behind the store login but it is easy to see that this is a well crafted site.

See more of this store, and other Zen Cart stores, in the Zen Cart Gallery.

  
     

Zen Cart Toolkit

Installing and customising Zen Cart may seem a little daunting at first. But, as with all jobs, it is so much easier if you have the right tools.

For more information visit the full Zen Cart Toolkit page.

Zen Cart Explored

Email messages are an important component of an online store for communication with your customers.  Zen Cart can be configured to notify customers of their order status, for example, or notify the store owner of a new order or that a particular product is running low on stock.

Zen Cart provides the option to select plain text or HTML email messages.  The HTML email messages utilise the set of 15 email templates.  The default email messages are explored further in Zen Cart Email Templates.