Can ZenCart be used with blogspot hosted domain from google?

[mynrose]

I have a blog at blogger.com and I'm fond of using it. It says that first I need a domain name in order to use ZenCart.

Blogger.com offers a domain name as well. And I have used this before.

But now Im planning to merge my newer blog and zencart and turn it into an online blog shop. Is this possible? Because I am quite confused if it still would'nt work even though Its a blog but has a domain name.

Can anybody clarify this situation? Best regards, Maz

[stevesh]

If the idea is to host a Zencart site on blogger. com, I doubt if you can do that. You can incorporate a Wordpress blog into Zencart, or link to your existing blog from Zencart.

[mynrose]

Zencart is a site actually? Is that how you use it ?

"If the idea is to host a Zencart site on blogger. com, I doubt if you can do that. You can incorporate a Wordpress blog into Zencart, or link to your existing blog from Zencart. "

How do you use wordpress with zencart? So zencart is not a program? Zencart is actually a website?

Thanks for your help

[kobra]

I have a blog at blogger.com and I'm fond of using it. It says that first I need a domain name in order to use ZenCart.

I believe that their terms of service might preclude you using this FREE service meant for a BLOG for a commercial purpose as in a shopping cart...

[stevesh]

No, Zencart is a program that you install on a server, under a specific domain name. You'll need to familiarize yourself with how Zencart works before you'll be ready to include a blog. Start with the Tutorials/FAQ link at the top of this page.

[mynrose]

i didn't mean to include a blog in zencart actually.

actually i intend to use my blog, make-and-create.########################## as a website for my online shop. And the deal is that I think first of all ZenCart asks this

"1. Do you have a domain?"

And by the domain does it mean a full www.somethinglikethis.com

or, a shared domain like www.somethinglikethis.##########################

So mine at the moment is something like a shared public domain isn't it.

Then @kobra

"believe that their terms of service might preclude you using this FREE service meant for a BLOG for a commercial purpose as in a shopping cart..."

I have checked google and here it is

http://peter-home-business.#########...ping-cart.html

http://www.bloggertipsandtricks.com/...your-blog.html

for stating that " I might not be allowed to use blog for online shop " Actually I've seen A LOT of it around online. But blogger.com hasn't prelude any of those people from doing what they wish to with their membership.

So what step should I take now. I try to read them and still need to get more clues. Thanks stevesh.

[stevesh]

In that example, he isn't using a shopping cart program, he's just adding Paypal buttons to some product pages he added to his blog. I guess you can do that, but you won't get the features available in Zencart.

No, you can't install Zencart in a bloggggspot account (the forum here won't allow the name without the extra 'g's). You'll need an actual domain of your own (www. mynrose.org, for example) to install Zencart.

[mynrose]

kay so if i have a domain but still used the blogger services as a website is it possible? like www.mynrose.com as a domain , but whoever who comes to mynrose.########################## will be forwarded to there as well. So..... does it work? Blogspot sells domain from enom.com and godaddy.com.

So I was thinking I'll buy a domain name and my hosting place will still be by blogger.com IS it same or different? Then I can continue to other requirements of using ZenCart

Thanks for your advice

[stevesh]

Let's start over. Why do you want to continue to use the blogging service which shall remain nameless to host a non-blog site?

The usual method is:

Register a domain name.

Secure a hosting account from one of the tens of thousands of hosts available (here are some good ones:http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?ma...es&pages_id=10) and point your domain to it.

Install Zencart to your hosting account, using FTP.

Have fun and make some money.