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    Can customers purchase from my Zen Cart shop without creating an account? 


    At this time all customers must register with their full name, address and other information before going to the checkout. The ability to have more flexibility in the login/account creation/checkout process is on our ...
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    Is it ideal to use a WYSIWYG editor such as Dreamweaver to work with Zen Cart in Dreamweaver? 


    Yes and No. The pages displayed in your browser are made up of XHTML styled by CSS. XHTML is static and easy for WYSIWYG editors such as Dreamweaver in Design View to interpret and display.
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    How do I show my documents in their own sidebox? 


    Make your category ... like Recipes

    Edit the category ... Set to product type: Document General

    Create your "products", the recipes.

    By restricting ...
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    Can I build Zen Cart offline, then upload it to a live server? 


    The newer version of this article is posted at:

    http://tutorials.zen-cart.com/index.php?article=99 ...
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    I want to import my data from another eCommerce system 


    A few resources which may help you:

    Migrating from another MySQL system
    EasyPopulate-Free
    EasyPopulate-Advanced
    Using Excel to import or manipulate SQL data
    Data Manager Tool
    SQLYog Windows-based database mgr for MySQL

    Using any of those tools will still require ...
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    How can I limit the age of my customers to people over 18? 


    There is no certain way to check on a visitor's age, but you can check that the date of birth that they have given you would make them at least 18 (or any other age you choose).

    To do this create an over-ride file in your template for includes/modules/create_account.php

    Find the section of code that reads
      if (ACCOUNT_DOB == 'true') {
        if (ENTRY_DOB_MIN_LENGTH ...
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    I cannot sign in. 


    Check this article:

    http://tutorials.zen-cart.com/index.php?article=84
    ...
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    What is a stylesheet? (A Primer) 


    The Stylesheet is the standard way to define the look of your site, from fonts and colors to the complete layout of a page.

    Hint: Max Design has a good tutorial on CSS Selectors


    Style Rules

    Stylesheets are made up of a list of style rules describing how documents are presented in a browser.
    Selectors

    Style rules are formed as follows: selector { property: value }

    An element or type selector is the tag name of an HTML element and matches all elements of that type
    h1 {
    font-size: 1.5em;
    }

    This example sets the size ...
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    Can a customer use 2 gift certificates at a time? How? 


    A customer can enter as many Gift Certificates as they want on the checkout_payment page or gift-certificate redemption page, and then apply what ever portion of ...
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    How do I read the RSS feed for Google or the News and Article Contrib? 


    You will need to download and install an RSS reader, or use a web-based service like Bloglines. Then, you copy and paste the URL of the news feed into the viewer's “subscribe” dialogue). Example ...

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