cart setup

[kobra]

set zc up so the customer clicks on add to cart and/or goto cart from one of our menu pages (http://petnutritionsystems.com/dogmenu.html for example).

ZenCart is not designed to be a cart backend for an html site for several reasons, mostly security ones

Your design can be mostly replicated as a ZenCart template where ZenCart becomes your main page/application

configuring client side using XAMPP on a windows base laptop using dreamweaver CS5
Need to:

Highly suggest that for ZenCart you DONOT use dreamweaver for any ZenCart alterations

[m4w29c]

Would you mind elaborating about zc and dreamweaver?

Also, is there an inexpensive backend option to implement that you
Recommend?

Thanks alot for your quick response! I have to have a functional
AND relatively secure cart up quickly, the backend stuff can
Come later...

[kobra]

Would you mind elaborating about zc and dreamweaver?

dreamweaver was designed a WYSIWUG HTML page constructor and it only barely does this as it creates bloated code
It should NEVER be used for a php application no matter what they say

is there an inexpensive backend option to implement that you
Recommend?

Google, as most just add a buy now button to your pages

I have to have a functional
AND relatively secure cart up quickly

I have not seen a "secure" option for what you are seeking to do out of the box....

I did state that your design could be fairly simple to convert to a ZenCart and you could then scrap your current pages