Adding a static home page

**DJC Electronics Ltd** · 16 Mar 2012, 02:58 PM

Hi all,

We are new to ZenCart, and so we are looking for some early advise.

We are looking to install a static homepage on which a customer can click one of three options to take them through to the cart.

When the customer clicks to go through to the cart from this homepage, we also want for the url to show shop.abc.co.uk for example instead of www.abc.co.uk/..............

How do we do this?

DJC

**SethF** · 16 Mar 2012, 03:01 PM

This is possible through cPanel by using sub-domains, correct me if I'm wrong.

**ravynw34** · 16 Mar 2012, 03:27 PM

Hello,
Do you mean adding a static html page or a static page on Zen Cart main index page?

**DJC Electronics Ltd** · 16 Mar 2012, 03:41 PM

Originally Posted by ravynw34

Hello,
Do you mean adding a static html page or a static page on Zen Cart main index page?

Hi. We want a page not connected to ZenCart, and have ZenCart accessible through a link on this home page, so we think we require a static HTML page.

When the customer would click through, ZenCart would then also have its own homepage/store front to the cart, under the domain shop.abc.co.uk for example.

Thanks.

**stevesh** · 16 Mar 2012, 04:04 PM

Just create your HTML page with links to the other pages, name it index.html and place it in the root directory of your domain. Install Zencart in yourdomain.com/shop.

**DJC Electronics Ltd** · 16 Mar 2012, 05:27 PM

Originally Posted by stevesh

Just create your HTML page with links to the other pages, name it index.html and place it in the root directory of your domain. Install Zencart in yourdomain.com/shop.

Thanks. I have installed the cart to /shop. Bit of a noob questions, but could you let me know how I would create the HTML page, name it index.html and place it in the root directory?

Cheers.

**stevesh** · 16 Mar 2012, 07:02 PM

Not really. This forum mainly deals with Zencart questions. There are some excellent HTML tutorials at www.wc3schools.com

**keneso** · 17 Mar 2012, 01:31 AM

Copy the following, paste it into notepad, and save it as index.html
Refer to stevesh link to edit the various parts (metas, and body) to your needs
Upload to server

Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>

	<head>
		<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1">
		<title> YOUR SITE TITLE </title>
		<meta name="description" content="YOUR SITE DESCRIPTION">
		<meta name="distribution" content="global">
		<meta name="robots" content="index,follow">
		<meta name="rating" content="General">
		<meta name="language" content="italian, it, en-us">
		<meta name="classification" content="Internet Services">
		<meta name="keywords" content="YOUR KEYWORDS">
		<link href="YOUR_STYLESHEET.css" rel="styleSheet" type="text/css" />
	</head>

	<body>

<a href="yourdomain/shop">your link text</a>

	</body>

</html>

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