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

Do you ALWAYS proofread before you publish?

September 25th, 2011

You’ve put a lot of effort into writing the content for your online store – from product descriptions to frequently asked questions about shipping and everything in between.   This content says a lot about you and your store.  Errors diminish your credibility.  Bad links cause visitors to leave.  Typos convey a slap-dash attitude.  People notice [...]

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How can you boost your online store’s credibility?

September 4th, 2011

It is easy to get caught up in focussing on bringing new visitors to your store.  However, it really is more important to focus on the visitors that you have now and what you can do to increase the ratio of visitors that convert to being customers.  This is not to discount the importance of [...]

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Zen Cart version 1.5 BETA released and ready for testing

August 1st, 2011

A couple of days ago, the Zen Cart team shared the beta release of Zen Cart 1.5.  What’s really exciting about this version is that, following final code certification, it will make Zen Cart the first free Open Source Ecommerce Solution that is fully PA-DSS certified.  As well as the numerous changes to support PA-DSS [...]

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Remove the sub category text links in Zen Cart

June 13th, 2011

A category in Zen Cart can have either products or sub-categories.  Where you have a category within a category, we refer to these as sub-categories.  Sub-categories are displayed at the top of a category page and include an image and a text link.  If you have custom images that include the sub-category name, the text [...]

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Store in Spotlight

August 1st, 2011
Elusive

Elusive

This week the Zen Cart store in the spotlight is Elusive, the online store for clothing designed by surfers for surfers.  This store design is great in that it really suits the product range and market audience and the showcase of categories is a nice change from the usual home page of products in a grid layout.

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.