Hope to be a new Zen Cart User

[pinetreecandles]

Decent hosting companies allow you to purchase SSL
cert from company of your choice,
and should not charge you for installing it.
If you are thinking of moving webhosts again,
suggest you do it now,
before installing zencart...
reduce your workload later on..
HTH

I second that statement

Good luck with your online store!

[stevesh]

Decent hosting companies allow you to purchase SSL
cert from company of your choice,
and should not charge you for installing it.

HTH

Not sure I'd agree with that. My (excellent) host will install any SSL cert, but charges $35. Installation does involve labor for the installation of the dedicated IP and the cert.

[schoolboy]

Excel (and most other spreadsheet programs) tend to truncate the 13 digit EAN codes, especially if they have a leading zero. I found Filemaker more agreeable to work with. Maybe I have just gotten used to its quirks over the years.

Way to resolve this is to open a blank screen of Excel, then use the DATA>>>IMPORT menu to bring in your csv or tab delimited text file.

Then, excel asks you to configure the import, and also the formatting for the columns. Where you have a column of numbers - esp with a leading zero. Format this column as a TEXT column (there is a radio button to select General, Number, Text, Date - the default is General).

This will import the string as text, and the leading 0 will remain. There should not be any truncation of the number of digits.

[nancy haitz]

Ahhh I have achieved zen. Got my cart install.

I really only had one problem - this wording in the instructions:
Creating the configure.php files
Two files need to be created on the server. These are the configure.php files that identify the settings of your particular server and the location of the files that you just loaded. After they have been created, you will then need to change the permissions on these files.

When I got to that point my brain froze up. I am a dumb newbie who has never typed a single character of code. Much brain scratching ensued. Let's see what does one use to "create" a configure.php file... don't recall ever seeing that as a menu drop-down item, like new word document or new spreadsheet.

After reading those couple of lines maybe six times, and then reading a little further down, I figured out what needed to be done.

I think "create" is not the correct word to use. Maybe change or modify, as that is what we are doing to the configure.php files. We most certainly are not creating them— they already exist.

Nancy

[macclick]

For CSS editing on the mac you have a great tool available CSSedit from MacRabbit with about an hour you can really knock this out