New to Zen cart. Need help setting up my pages.

This is my first install. I just barely installed it today. And i have no idea how to use it. Its running on a Apache server. And the server OS is Linux 2.6.31.9-grsec , zen cart version is 5.2.12 (Zend: 2.2.0)
I have built my entire website already and im just curious how to either add the shopping cart info like the borders and ad now buttons to my pages that i built. Or how I can add my header and footer and logo, etc to my shopping pages. I only have 3 products that im selling on my site. My product pages are already built. I would just like to add a link on each of my product pages to there own specific checkout page that has the that specific product price.
Can anybody help me with that?:smile:

Sorry, Zencart doesn't work that way. You can't just add buttons from an existing site to the Zencart shopping cart process.

Better, as you suggested, to use Zencart as your whole site and add your header image, etc. to it.

As far as getting started, I think the best way is to install Zencart on your server, then read through the FAQ/Tutorials (above).

I dont really wanna change my whole site. I just want 1 link on each of my product pages. That links to my shopping cart. So when people are on a certain product page. They can click the sign up now button on the pages I built. That link them to a zen cart add to cart page. (ill edit those with my header, banner, etc.) Is there a way to build individual links that has each different product price in it. So when they click on the link(depending on what page there on) it brings up another page (zen cart page)
with the price and the product in the shopping kart. Ready to check out.

As stevesh said, Zen Cart doesn't work that way. It's not a backend operation, so you can't do what your asking.

So I just gotta add all the stuff from the pages I built to the php pages. And then from there I can do what im asking?

Zen Cart does not operate the way you're describing. You can't use Zen Cart as just a shopping cart.

If im just trying to sell 3 products total for now. Do you have any suggestions? I have already built my entire website. About 20 pages. All im trying to do is sale 3 products on my site. Do you have any suggestions that may point me in the right direction.

Or is there anyway I can still use Zen cart with the website I designed?

This might help you http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?main_page=product_contrib_info&products_id=866

You'll still have to set up Zen Cart the way it was intended. You should be able to design a template that will blend with the site you already have.

There's also this http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?main_page=product_contrib_info&products_id=990

I haven't used either, so I don't know how they work.

Ok cool. Thank you for your help. I really appreciate it.