Can I use Zen Cart to do this?

[swmecheru]

Hello,
I just make a web site for my company (psd to HTML and CSS). I have a page called PRODUCT where i need to display a list of products with a short description, manufacturer and image but no price. An online product catalog. My question is can i use zen to make all this and if i customize zen to look like the other pages from my site.
PS: I'm new to this. I google'it for this problem but maybe some of you can give me some good advice.

Thank You

[afo]

You'd be better off using Zen Cart to run the entire site and put it in showcase mode to use it as a catalogue.

[gjh42]

If you post a link to what you have now, we can tell you what will be involved in translating your design into a Zen Cart template, and some suggestions on the best way to start.

You have to get your design into Zen Cart anyway to have a page that matches the rest, and moving the rest of it over will probably be fairly simple after that.

[swmecheru]

If you post a link to what you have now, we can tell you what will be involved in translating your design into a Zen Cart template, and some suggestions on the best way to start.

You have to get your design into Zen Cart anyway to have a page that matches the rest, and moving the rest of it over will probably be fairly simple after that.

I sent u a PM.
Thank you

[gjh42]

Okay...

Header: It is a standard process to put your custom logo in the header, and there are several ways you could get the navigation links as shown. You might want to add a bar or something to hold more links, as there are many more than the four pages you show that will be needed for a complete website (they are already part of Zen Cart).

Main content area: You can turn off both sidebars for some pages, and have just the right sidebar for pages where you want the product special ad. You can use a banner sidebox to hold that ad and others if you want to rotate them.
Homepage "Franko Prodcom SRL..." content (currently just one image) can go in define_main_page.php (edit in admin).
That content is easily readable by humans, but search engines cannot read the image and will not be able to find your page when people are searching for that information. Consider adding text, plain or alt, so there is searchable content on the homepage. Zen Cart has built-in metatag handling so you can easily give a good description for SE's to use.

Footer: You can use a bannerbox in the footer to hold the three ads there, and you may want to use the ez-pages footer menu to give a full set of navigation links at the bottom of the page.

All in all, nothing looks like a big deal to translate to Zen Cart.

[swmecheru]

Thanks for your post.
Can you give me some tips (guidance) how to make this transition?
Possibly could you recommend some tutorials?

[gjh42]

There are many tutorials in the Tutorials/FAQ link at the top of the page; search in them for some of the keywords in your questions and you should find good information.