Logo and more

[mera]

Hello ;) I'm new with zencart and I'm used to work with frontpage, how can I put my logo on and other pictures

thanks a lot
Linda

[fairestcape]

You will have to completely ignore everything you learned about FrontPage as the methodology behind Zencart is totally different.

Zencart works using PHP code (mostly) that calls up information from a database, and pastes it all together with images and other elements to create a HTML page "on the fly".

So the pages are determined by what the user "requests" from the website, and are called DYNAMIC pages. When the visitor moves on to another page, the page he was looking at earlier disappears completely - it ceases to exist.

The pages you create using FrontPage are STATIC pages. They remain on the server and do not fundamentally change their composition when a person moves on to other pages.

With a standard install of Zencart, the most important identifying image for your site is the header LOGO, and it must be sized to fit into the header section of your template. You determine this size in the stylesheet, and your logo goes into the images folder of your template.

Product images are best loaded up via FTP to the images folder, and in the case of MEDIUM and LARGE images, there are sub-folders for housing these images.

The product image is displayed when the actual image (the JPG file) is referenced via the database. You add this reference when you ADD products to your store. (There are opportunities to upload images whgen adding a product, or to reference and existing image).

Spend a lot of time reading the help files and tutorials on this forum - but start by ignoring how you used to work with FrontPage!

[mera]

[FONT="Book Antiqua"]Thanks a lot, I've been working a lot this past few days trying to understand zen-cart..

Linda[/FONT]

[Indigo Nest]

Mera, I am very new at this as well. There are literally hundreds of free templates out there. Just google "Zen-Cart" "Free" "Templates". I found a lot of them to be pretty bad, however they do allow you to look at them and learn how to do things by changing them around. That's how I've learned so far. Good luck.