I am a newbie and not through the book yet but wanting to know if Frontpage 2003 can be used with the Zen cart.
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25 Jan 2010, 04:46 PM #1
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25 Jan 2010, 05:03 PM #2
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Re: Frontpage 2003
NO...
Keep FrontPage and ZC well away from each other.
In fact, anything with Microsoft in the title should be kept 100 trillion miles from zencart.20 years a Zencart User
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25 Jan 2010, 05:11 PM #3
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Re: Frontpage 2003
The reasons are many, but firstly, FrontPage is a HTML editor, and Zencart does not work with flat HTML.
As with all modern websites that use a Content Managed System (CMS), the web pages (which are eventually made up of html) are "cobbled together" by a programming code.
In Zencart's case, this is PHP.
A zencart web page is created "on-the-fly".
The PHP code gathers up "bits" of data and raw html, and assembles each page as it is needed, and depending on what was requested.
Some of these "pages" draw their "bits" from several hundred places - including the database (the CONTENT part of CMS). The page is then assembled and delivered to a web browser as HTML, so that it displays.
When the viewer navigates to a new / different page, the one they are looking at "evaporates". It is replaced by a newly assembled page. It is not "stored" anywhere.
You are going to have to research how PHP does its job. You don't need to become an expert - just try to understand the principle.
You will soon do some php editing, and you do this using a PLAIN TEXT EDITOR, such as NOTEPAD++ or EMERALD EDITOR.
But you can box up FrontPage and put it into the recycling bin.20 years a Zencart User
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25 Jan 2010, 05:31 PM #4
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Re: Frontpage 2003
An "external" html editor can be useful - but be careful how you use it.
FrontPage hijacks ALL formatting - including code formatting - so you must be careful how it is used.
A handful of "pages" in zencart are largely HTML. These include the DEFINED PAGES, and EZ PAGES.
Zencart comes boxed with its own little HTML Editor (HTMLArea) but this has many limitations.
What I do (using FrontPage, interestingly), is create layouts that I like for product data, information pages and other EZ pages.
I keep this to SIMPLE html formatting only.
Then, when I have the layout I like (for a particular page), I toggle to SPLIT view (in FP) and copy and paste the raw html into the relevant zencart page.
A few rules...
Copy ONLY what is between the <body> and </body> tags in FP.
Keep well away from FP's "bots", so don't try to create forms or other embedded features.
In HTMLArea, you must toggle to page source mode before "pasting" your raw html. The toggle menu icon looks like this <>.
Re-define any <h ref> and <img src> links. Where possible use RELATIVE paths not ABSOLUTE paths. (Can influence SSL warnings later).
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