Problems Setting Up a Template.

[mc12345678]

You are absolutely right, blame it on the lack of coffee in the morning .

Same here as I look back over the grammar... Oye.

[chome4]

Shopping cart/php/classes etc are way above my head! I've written to zen4me.com asking them to clarify the installation process and hopefully I'll get a reply.

Using WinHTTrack Website Copier, I downloaded the [working] demo site and it runs as a regular html site. Not what is should be but the structure of the site works. It's just the packaging of the files that's the issue.

[mc12345678]

Not sure what you mean by works like a regular html site, as all sites are presented through html or some variation of it. ZC generated html using php files and other additional code.

All of that other "confusing" stuff is pretty much an indication of how complicated the installation was made by the packagers to prep it for ZC.

Most well put together plugins provide a folder structure that is basically copy the main folder(s) to the equivalent directory and go. Already, just for the tpl files had to remove a portion of the path to get it to the right place to begin with.

[RodG]

Using WinHTTrack Website Copier, I downloaded the [working] demo site and it runs as a regular html site.

Not sure what you mean by works like a regular html site, as all sites are presented through html or some variation of it. ZC generated html using php files and other additional code.

The website copier downloads the html rendered code of a site and creates static links to make it function correctly - Well as 'correct' as it can without any dynamic elements. - This is often used to make an 'offline' copy of a website (generally intended to be burned onto and distributed on a CD/DVD)

Admittedly,I've not followed or read this thread, so I've no idea what the OP is actually trying to achieve here, but if the thread title is anything to go by then what the OP is trying to do simply can't/won't work with the 'static' copy of the website.

Cheers
RodG