Quote Originally Posted by micmed View Post
+1 Ken

A builder put up a sign that read "Free house to anyone!". A man shows up to find just the frame of the house built and all of the rest of the material needed to finish it neatly piled up around the site. The builder said all of it was free to the person that would put effort into finishing the house. The man went away sad because the builder would not tell him what the house was supposed to look like nor would he stay and show him how to put it together. Sound familiar?

I dare say that ZC has more resources to complete the framework than any other open source system out there. The framework is free, but you have to put the effort into it. I am grateful for the help that I get on this site when I get stuck. I usually only ask after having put the time in to try an figure it out for my self. Take the time to learn the basics of HTML, CSS, PHP and maybe some SQL. You won't regret it and you just might end up with a beautiful "free mansion" of a site that all you had to do is spend the time learning and creating.
Wow...That is exactly what I felt after reading 65 pages of this thread in one day. I deeply respect and appreciate all the "Zen Masters" repeatedly answering the same questions (just even in this thread)! If you read this in on shot, you can see how many people skip reading all the thread and asking the same questions over and over. Imagine how many times they are answering the same thing through out the forum... I once struggled with osCommerce after building 80% of my shop because of too many add-ons which I wasn't sure if they are right ones or work properly and the program support was too massive/some outdated and got lost in it. Sometimes get a answer from another newbie person and I don't know if that is the right answer... This forum is great and well informed, well structured so many experts actively monitoring and supporting. I am so glad that my hosting company added ZenCart as another option. Even though I could customize the osCommerce site quite a bit, I believe there are more study needed for ZenCart customization - but I am willing to learn.

First of all, English IS my foreign language so I started from the very bottom line when it comes to "learning". LOL

Often I see that because people work all by themselves trying to figure out particular function/customization without any immediate human support system at home/work so comes to this wonderful forum and tend to "vent" their frustrations...

I must say everybody have their own situations and I believe those ZenMasters who patiently reply to all the quesitons are one of teh busiest people trying to help - I've never seen the forum so kind and helpful "expert" constantly answering.

I have three jobs (having two companies), two kids with tones of sports activities, 4 hours of sleep everyday but I want to build my online website so bad that I basically taought myself HTML, learned how to use FTP, scratched the surface of PHP and MySQL, taught myself Dreamweaver and now going to phpAdmin even before getting into Zencart customization. Read Security Issues Steps right after I installed ZenCart but now I am reading threads just to make sure I am going right direction/steps.

My only suggestions to this wonderful project for newbie would be why not make a quick YouTube "How to"s for basic things that people are keep asking about? I've seen some YouTubes about ZenCart admin panel and within 5 min. I could see what Admin panel looks like even before getting into it and people can see how to get the certain files from the server to your PC, modify it and upload to correct folder in server side using FTP program and so on... Just short segment of those and list the links so people won't ask repeated quesitons... I've seen a lot of those how to YouTubes for osCommerce but not many for ZenCart.

Anyhow, I am very excited to start this ZenCart journey and hats off for those very patient zenmasters that support this community.

Cheers!