Computer illiterate in desperate need of help no hair left to pull out!!!

[alcanlove]

I am a complete novice & in need of help I do not have a clue what I am doing & how to do it!!!
I am using ipage as a webhost, they have a great simple web builder called weebly drag & drop, I have part built myself
a little website, I have some products added easy, however I want to use google as a payment method I could not use it through weebly as I could not change the currency to GBP they have it set to USD, so I was creating my orders in google checkout creating a add to cart code & pasting that in the html element, but then I realised as I sell single unique products I need it set that when a buyer purchased a product it would show as sold out, other wise more of each could be purchased. so I contacted google & they emailed me back saying.......

"We are going to need custom api integration or utilize a pre-integrated
shopping cart, because you are selling unique items and you need items to
update.

To do so we need to setup a sql database which will house the items, so
when someone purchases the items, it can update the database to reflect 0
quantity.

We can also easily add all those shipping items directly with the cart"

He kindly installed zencart into my files in the ipage file manager, & sent me some screen shots of how to add a category & a product. After abut 2 hours of clicking on all the files in the ipage file manager I finally, found how to get into zen-cart I logged in I followed the screen shots I added the 4 categories from my website & added a product, so before adding more I wanted to see how this worked with my website........ what do I do now? I was stuck! how do I use the zen-cart with my weebly website?
I have no computer knowledge, never had a website before its been over a month now & I am still lost & frustrated with it all I have no one to help me, once I know how things are done & been shown I'm ok but all this technical stuff is beyond me & like the google guy & the live help, who I have pestered the life out of forget some of us do not have a clue what they are talking about, I need step by step simple person full instructions! I have been on youtube, forums everywhere & I am still struggling......its making me feel ill & I feel stupid & dumb

Anyone knows what I need to do now would be my bestest friend forever & would make this dumb blond very very happy


This is my web url applecheekslittlefeet.com

Thank you Candice x

[balihr]

how do I use the zen-cart with my weebly website?

In short - you don't. Those two won't work together. Zen Cart is a separate system and you can't just pin it on top of some weebly site.

The best way would be to use ONLY Zen Cart and leave weebly alone. You would need to get your site designed or use some of the free template (trust me, don't go for commercial templates) and get the site configured to meet your requirements. Your current Zen Cart site is a so called "clean install" meaning you have the default template and absolutely no customization done. I can see you've added 4 categories and 1 product...

You're not at all stupid nor dumb, you just didn't get clear instructions. Anyway, Zen Cart is a standalone application and is not supposed to be used as an addon to some simple HTML sites generated by weebly or similar applications. Your current site is just a plain HTML website commonly used to have a web presence, whilst Zen Cart is a really powerful ecommerce application used to sell products online. I hope you understand how different those are...

[afo]

Balihr is correct.

I know it seems overwhelming, but you won't regret learning/using Zen Cart. Ask all the questions you want here on the forum. Play around with Zen Cart and get the hang of it. You'll struggle at first and then you'll suddenly get the hang of it.

You can visit http://(sorry, site offline)/ to see the free templates available for Zen Cart.

[alcanlove]

Thank you for the advise, only found how to find my posted threads, I was a bit naive there & not quite understood the nature of zencart or web building for that matter, I have some help now, so things are looking bright for me now & thank you for explaining, this is all very new to me & a learning curb, I have not quite grasped how it all works, this forum will be a great help also the clips on youtube.
Thank you Candice x

[alcanlove]

Thank afo, I'm still lost but I do agree this forum is a great help I am slowly learning!

[afo]

Expect to feel lost for a while before you have a breakthrough (what we call "zenned"). When you reach that point, you'll wonder why you thought it was so difficult. I know for me the most difficult concept was the template overrides. Once I got the idea, everything else fell into place. Of course, I still get stuck now and then, but the forum is a good place to find help.