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The process for mod installation depends on the mod, so its not possible to write a general guide. You need to follow the specific instructions that come with each one.

Have you seen the ad for the book at the top of the page. It has over 400 pages of information about setting up and configuring a Zen Cart.

@Shinmai

In some ways this thread is rather unfortunate. It was actually started to ask new users what they needed to know (those of us who have been around for a while can sometimes forget what...

Hi ilsita and welcome

It doesn't matter which way around you do this. In fact it's very normal to be changing both at the same time as your site develops.

The book is aimed more at store administrators than people developing sites. So it's very good on setting up downloads or coupons for example, but not so good at telling you how to build a site.
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You don't. The HTML (or strictly XHTML) that you see when you look view source in your browser is generated by Zen Cart's PHP. I recommend browsing the FAQ entry about controlling meta tags to learn...

Just head to the FAQ and search for "congratulations".

The header.php file is in your site's includes/languages/english folder.

Somebody has. It's in the FAQ.

This normally means that you have deleted the float:left styling in your stylesheet that causes the subcategories to line up as they do by default in Zen Cart.

That's a very big question. I'd recommend starting with something smaller and more specific and I think you'll find that the big question will answer itself.

How about:
How do I change the header...

This is generally a kind and patient forum, and questions asked courteously will normally receive similarly measured responses. It also helps if it's clear that the FAQ and/or search facilities have...

Hi Ray

I'm afraid that you're heading into a bit of a dead end here.

For a static site yes. But Zen Cart is what's known as a dynamic site, i.e. it uses information from a database to decide...

You don't need to no. The stylesheet is probably a good idea, and there is a lot of structure embedded in there (but when I'm feeling brave I start with an empty one and build from the ground up),...

Well, strictly all you need is the template_info.php file. But it won't be much of a template without some custom images and styling, not to mention textual changes from default Zen Cart wording.
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This is the support site. It's home page is www.zen-cart.com

Ah yes. I see. Zen Cart has a lot of similarly and, in this case, identically, named files. The folder structure is therefore very important. The best place to go to get a fresh copy of the file...

This means that you are looking at the index.php at the top level of your Zen Cart and not the one mentioned in the tutorial which is buried down in the includes/languages/ENGLISH folder.
There is...

I'm afraid that neither the change you made, nor the problem that you're having are obvious from either your post, or the one from which you were quoting.
It doesn't point to any page. It's simply a...

Me, I'm in the "rather hope he does give up" camp.

One of the strengths of Zen Cart is the vibrancy of this support forum. I've dealt with many professional and paid-for support services that...

Graphical representation is always a good idea, especially with something as visual as a Zen Cart.

Your first diagram is familiar (and I don't just mean because I recognise the specific site from...

The Glossary link is in the blue bar that appears above each FAQ entry. You'll find most of the terms to which you referred in there.

You would create the template-defined file without that text.

You can create stylesheets called p_??.css where ?? is the id number of the product.

There is an add-on, Easy Populate, that allows you to maintain your product information in a spreadsheet and import/export it in tab delimited files.

You could build a template using a WYSIWYG...

There's also a fair amount of documentation for the database schema.

There are no switches to control this, but there are two ways to get rid of it:

eidt your tpl_footer.php file to remove (or comment out) the code that generates it
add #navSuppWrapper...

Every question asked and answered has been of interest and hopefully use to somebody, so I believe that it is the Zen Cart team's policy to leave them all available.

Have you tried looking at the...

Hi Ryk

Personally I'm rather partial to a bit of mindreading. The fuzziness helps make use of the empty areas in my head where all the brain cells have died off. So...

jsteelethg

Zen Cart...

$80 is an odd figure that doesn't really reflect any of the costs of ordering for delivery in the UK. You can pay more or less depending upon your level of patience (aka shipping time) ranging from...

The template works perfectly, just like any other. However, a very common error made by people new to Zen Cart is to make a copy of the stylesheet before starting to edit it, but then leave the copy...

This is the right place and way to do what you want to do, though I would recommend creating your own template directory based on classic rather than using classic itself as otherwise your stylesheet...

Tutorials are being worked on. Until then there is lots of information int eh FAQ, and an increasing amount in the Wiki. There are links to both at the top of the page.

You're not the only one. It took me a while to figure this out when the current version of the forum was launched, and over 1,000 posts later I've still used that button less than 20 times :lamo:

There is a new thread button. You navigate to the section in which you want your post to appear and a new thread button will appear at both the top and bottom of the page.

Woody

You make a lot of good points in your post above. Just two things that I would disagree with. Firstly I wouldn't get people too whipped up aboyt the possibilities inherent in CSS3. CSS2 has...