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Zen Natural Zen Cart Template 7 Jan 2009 | 11:45 am

Zen Natural is a free Zen Cart template based on the play.com template concept I did a while back. Live demo available here This is the first release so needs a little more testing and I also plan to ...

Increase selection boxes in Zen Cart admin 31 Dec 2008 | 01:52 am

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 ...

Free Zen Cart Buttons For All 22 Dec 2008 | 02:49 am

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 w...

SEO for Zen Cart Categories 21 Dec 2008 | 07:30 am

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,...

play.com Zen Cart Template Concept 12 Nov 2008 | 05:19 am

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 excus...

How to change the width of a Zen Cart site 1 Nov 2008 | 11:37 pm

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 tha...

Add a ‘new’ symbol to your latest products 19 Mar 2008 | 02:44 am

Ever wanted to put a ‘new’ sticker on your product pages? Well here’s what you do; Create a little eye catching graphic that says New or NEW PRODUCT. Then pop your graphic in includes/templates/<your ...

Show off your Zen Cart site 24 Feb 2008 | 06:03 am

I’ve just put the finishing touches to a new directory for sites powered by Zen Cart. The only conditions for submitting a site is you must have the Powered by Zen Cart text and link in the footer of ...

Quick tip #2: Find admin options quickly in Zen Cart 22 Feb 2008 | 01:18 am

One great aspect of Zen Cart is the flexibility to change configuration options. Whether it be the number of new products to show on the front page to how the product listing page displays the product...

Quick tip #1: Use singular and plurals in product descriptions 12 Feb 2008 | 03:41 am

After posting about getting site search data from Zen Cart it reminded me of a great tip. The site search function on Zen Cart is not great with plurals and singular words. For example if you have a p...

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