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19 Mar 2009, 4:39 AM
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Need Help designing my own Cart layout in Photoshop

I would really appreciate it if someone could help me with this situation. I've created a design for my store in Photoshop ,but i am trying to figure out how do i get it to work with my Zen Cart ??

Can anyone help please ?

19 Mar 2009, 4:52 AM
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Re: Need Help designing my own Cart layout in Photoshop

In general, you will take some parts of your Photoshop image and apply them as images or backgrounds to various elements in Zen Cart, like the logo, #headerWrapper, sideboxes, etc. For other elements you will add properties like colors, fonts, and borders in your stylesheet.

If you post a link to an image of your design, we can give more specific advice.

19 Mar 2009, 5:19 AM
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Re: Need Help designing my own Cart layout in Photoshop

Ok heres the image. I just dont understand how to make it work with my Zen Cart

And i'm aiming for something like this site https://www.stylegrounds.com

19 Mar 2009, 4:16 PM
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Re: Need Help designing my own Cart layout in Photoshop

You're trying to make a serious custom design (which looks quite nice, btw) without any idea of how dynamic website design works. I could walk you through every single step, but don't have the time now... I suggest you learn more about how Zen Cart pages are put together (see the tutorials above), and how CSS works (see https://www.w3schools.com).
With that background, I would be happy to help you get the header links it looks like you want, the images where you want them, etc.

19 Mar 2009, 11:35 PM
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Re: Need Help designing my own Cart layout in Photoshop

alright thanks.
Im wondering is there anyway that i could pay you to take my design and make it to where it can be compatible with the Zen Cart ?

19 Mar 2009, 11:45 PM
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Re: Need Help designing my own Cart layout in Photoshop

Post in the commercial help room, you will get some bids and you can pick the one you like. Dont just go for the price though.

20 Mar 2009, 11:01 PM
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Re: Need Help designing my own Cart layout in Photoshop

I have the same problem as a graphic designer I want the zen cart to look unique but I can't get it to look the way I want...
also create my design y photoshop but after 2 days trying to setup the cart I feel very disappointed!!!

20 Mar 2009, 11:52 PM
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Re: Need Help designing my own Cart layout in Photoshop

Scamping up a store in photoshop is more than just making it look nice.
You have to consider the dev side of things as well.
It's very possible to make a quality zen cart from those designs but it'll take a skilled developer.
One thing I would say is that you've over done it a bit on the horizontal lines. Looks good, but I think you need to fade those lines out a bit.

27 Mar 2009, 8:17 AM
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Re: Need Help designing my own Cart layout in Photoshop

Hi there did you find out how to input your images as links into zencart cos if you did I would love to know! :frusty:

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Ok heres the image. I just dont understand how to make it work with my Zen Cart

And i'm aiming for something like this site https://www.stylegrounds.com

27 Mar 2009, 9:25 AM
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Re: Need Help designing my own Cart layout in Photoshop

There are a number of different ways of replacing text with images. Here's a few examples.

P.S. At Kuroi we use #3 for single image replacement. There are more sophisticated techniques that can be used when there are a number of linked images, but I'd recommend getting comfortable with a basic level technique first.