Quote Originally Posted by stevesh View Post
As long as we're expressing opinions here, I'd suggest that you ignore the portion of the book which describes a local Zencart installation. Unzip the files onto your local computer so you'll have some sense of the directory/file structure, and do your first actual installation on your remote server (not with Fantastico). Then edit the files you need to override with a good text editor and FTP them to the server. This way, assuming a proper FTP client, the Mac - PC - Linux thing will be moot.
What's the drawback of not installing locally to design and configure before I make the site live? Security issues?

I'd love to be able to ignore the first chunk of the manual.