new products error

[nightshadow]

I believe I am having an error or a malformed setting. My list of "new products" is listing products new for june that were new in may. How do I control the cut off point either by setting a number of days for the new product listing or by setting items to not show as new anymore. And say I have no new products for the most recent time period of say a week or a month... doubtful this would happen but as precaution can I set it to use the last so and so added items to show as new until actual new items come in?

Also while I am here I had two more questions if you please... one I need a link to a compatible and preferably easy to install url changing add on... I like the built in meta tag function I just want to change how the url's are displayed only so they list the actual category path and product name in the url for SEO purposes... I dont want a full package for metatagging and everything just the url's.

And also if I could be pointed to an add-on and tutorial for using said add on that allows me to set each product to have different shipping rates based on shipping zones.... example... some items I have ship free in the US but have variable cost internationally. If I could also somehow have it match the proper current price for a specific shipper to that location this would be great as well. Also having the ability on certain items only to allow multiple shipping types such as speed of delivery. I already have products set up in such a way to exist as "shipping groups" no formal coding just a little message at the bottom of it's description saying which group and a note on the shipping page saying where it can go and it's cost... if I can somehow get an add on that allows me to preserve these shipping groups and set up rules for handling each shipping group and then addin products to a group so it knows which rule to follow.

Anywho I hope that all made sense and I hope somebody can help me with this. Thank you for your time.

[schoolboy]

Spend more time in your admin panel...

For your first question:
ADMIN >>> CONFIGURATION >>> MAXIMUM VALUES >>> New Product Listing - Limited to ...

For your second question:
There is NO SEO ADVANTAGE in URL re-writing in zencart. In fact, you can do more harm than good. Re-written URL's are not necessary for zencart, and there is no evidence that they improve rankings. If you are intent on doing this, then there is only one module that is reasonably safe and reliable and that is CEON's URI MAPPING module. DO NOT USE ANY OTHER MODULE... you could wreck your site's link navigability.

For your third question:
Complex shipping is not easy to configure, so again, look at CEON'S ADVANCED SHIPPER MODULE (http://dev.ceon.net).

[nightshadow]

Spend more time in your admin panel...

For your first question:
ADMIN >>> CONFIGURATION >>> MAXIMUM VALUES >>> New Product Listing - Limited to ...

For your second question:
There is NO SEO ADVANTAGE in URL re-writing in zencart. In fact, you can do more harm than good. Re-written URL's are not necessary for zencart, and there is no evidence that they improve rankings. If you are intent on doing this, then there is only one module that is reasonably safe and reliable and that is CEON's URI MAPPING module. DO NOT USE ANY OTHER MODULE... you could wreck your site's link navigability.

For your third question:
Complex shipping is not easy to configure, so again, look at CEON'S ADVANCED SHIPPER MODULE (http://dev.ceon.net).

Got most of it so far looking into ceon thank you. One last question for the time being if I may... I have searched for a sitemap generator in admin and addons... I seem to not be finding a proper method for downloading the sitemap and providing it to search engine such as google. I did fnd the web site xml sitemap and what not but without paying it is limited to small sites only and limited mapping functions.

[schoolboy]

Got most of it so far looking into ceon thank you. One last question for the time being if I may... I have searched for a sitemap generator in admin and addons... I seem to not be finding a proper method for downloading the sitemap and providing it to search engine such as google. I did fnd the web site xml sitemap and what not but without paying it is limited to small sites only and limited mapping functions.

Sitemaps, SEE: http://www.zen-cart.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=367