Free “Shop by Price” module for Zen Cart
February 7, 2010 in Zen Cart Add Ons | 2 Comments
This is a simple “Shop by Price” or “Browse by Price” add-on module for adding a sidebox which can be used to display a few clickable price ranges.
Your customers can click on any price range to view a list of products within that price range.
The module will only search and match the price values without taking into account the currency chosen by your user. In other words, the price ranges in the sidebox are numbers which do not change with currency type.
Note: The appearance of your Shop by Price sidebox depends on your own template. This screenshot is from our Premium 6a template.
How to display Flash in Zen Cart banner locations
January 25, 2010 in Zen Cart Customization, Zen Cart Guides | 10 Comments
You can display Flash at any location of your Zen Cart website by editing the design files (PHP). But this post will teach you how to display Flash content in the standard built-in Zen Cart banner locations — by using Zen Cart’s Banner Manager.
First, you need to have a working Flash file (SWF) — which can be created by Adobe Flash or Swish Max. Just make sure the dimension (width) of your Flash movie fits your template design. For example, the banner image width of our Premium 7 template is 930 pixels — so, in this case, you should design your Flash movie to have 930 pixels width, while the height is up to you.
Customize copyright year display for Zen Cart store
October 4, 2009 in Zen Cart Customization | 3 Comments
By default, your Zen Cart powered web store will display a copyright notice with the current year at the footer — where the current year is based on your web server’s system date.
Example:
Copyright © 2009 My Online Store. Powered by Zen Cart
If you want to change the year display format to reflect the year you start your business, you just need to edit a language file.
Example:
Copyright © 2007 - 2009 My Online Store. Powered by Zen Cart
Google Wave preview invitation is out
October 1, 2009 in Uncategorized | 2 Comments
Google Wave, the real-time internet communication tool, has opened for “preview” users, with 100,000 invitations sent out.
It’s a combination of many popular internet tools — chat, social networking, email, collaboration, discussion, file sharing etc.
The collaboration and social networking features should be good for business users. And I think Google Wave can be embedded in Zen Cart sites to encourage conversation.
Unfortunately, I’m not one of the lucky ones to get an invitation. If you have an account, can you spare me an invitation/nomination? Please send to this email: s…@g…l.com
Add Google Maps to Zen Cart contact page
August 4, 2009 in Zen Cart Customization | 6 Comments
To add Google Maps to your Zen Cart contact page, two files need to be uploaded to your template folders.
Basically, you just need to download the files, change the details to reflect your business location/address, and upload.
For your convenience, I’ve separated the guide below to 3 major steps (STEP 2 is only necessary if the files already exist in your template’s folders).
Product listings display ‘bug’ in Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8
July 21, 2009 in CSS, Zen Cart Customization, Zen Cart Guides | Leave a Comment
This issue can be seen on product listing pages using table and ‘colspan’ for displaying products — namely, the New Products, Featured Products and All Products pages.
By default, Zen Cart displays each listing with the thumbnail on the left, the product name/price etc on the right, then the product description below (in a cell that spans 2 columns. See the frame of the table cells for a listing:
Alert: Zen Cart security vulnerability and patch
June 28, 2009 in Zen Cart Guides | Leave a Comment
A vulnerability has been discovered in the admin area of Zen Cart version 1.3.8 and earlier versions. Please read further instructions, and download the patch from http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=130161
This patch works for previous versions in the Zen Cart 1.3.x series.
Please take the necessary actions as soon as possible.
Zen Cart rating stars images for dark and light background
June 8, 2009 in Free Images | 2 Comments
The original yellow/gold star images for the Zen Cart rating and review system are not suitable for dark colored backgrounds. As the images are saved as transparent GIF, you can see white fringes if your background is dark in color. See example below:
The original rating stars
You can create a set of images suitable for dark background, but this will work only if your whole page has dark background. If your sideboxes are dark but the main area is light in color, then it may not work, as you may see dark fringes.
Zen Cart and shared hosting
April 21, 2009 in Zen Cart Guides | 1 Comment
When I started to use Zen Cart some time ago, one of the first questions I asked was ‘Is shared web hosting good enough for running Zen Cart?’
Now, after a few years, and after dealing with a number of web hosting companies, I’ll share my experiences of using shared hosting.
Lightbox for Zen Cart
March 25, 2009 in Zen Cart Add Ons | 38 Comments
If you’re not sure what it is, see demo here (it’s not a Zen Cart site but the same effects — fades the page into dark background and shows the product photo in the same window).
There are already modules available from Zencart.com for adding the lightbox feature for displaying your product images. If you’re interested, you can search the site for the add-ons. But please do read the forum’s support thread for the add-on and see if you’re comfortable with the issues faced by the other users. The add-ons are powerful but a bit complicated (many files involved, cumbersome un-installing and some users faced compatibility issues).
Here is a much easier method to add the Lightbox (this version is actually a Lightbox clone called Slimbox) feature to your Zen Cart store. Only a few additional files, no need to overwrite any files and no database patching involved. Uninstalling means deleting the few files that you have uploaded — simple and painless.
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