make my wordpress look like my zencart

in the next few days i'm going to try and tackle this i would love to make my wordpress blog look like my zencart as much as possible.

my site https://www.gorillagear.ca
my blog http://news.gorillagear.ca

any suggestions, i spent a few hours a while back but ran out of time to play with the template

here are the things i would want to merge or transfer to my blog

1. my header
2. my catagory side box
3. make the template as close as possible to each other

here are the things i would want to merge or transfer to my blog

1. my header
2. my catagory side box
3. make the template as close as possible to each other
   The WP templating system is quite a bit different than ZenCart
   Might ask on the WP forum how to template their script

The category sidebox may be attainable with the Sidebox Anywhere mod from Free Addons.

no luck on the wordpress forum but i think i can figure it out buy building a new template. looking at a tutorial right now this will be my first attempt at building a template from scratch. what would be the best way to start? i'm thinking taking a snap shot via view source of the front page of my site then just start chopping it up to get to the core of it. man i really need better tools all i use is notepad++ for coding and gimp for the graphics how much time could i save if i used photoshop and dreamweaver

i'll check out that sideboxes anywhere mod as well

Dreamweaver is basically for html pages
Both ZenCart & WP are php and I would not recommend using Dreamweaver for php at all

is it just me or are the zencart template system super complicated compared to wordpresses theme system

It's a matter of perspective. Wordpress just displays text entered on a page. Zen Cart manages the storage and presentation of categories, products, inventory, new/old, prices, sales, specials, discounts, coupons, customers, customer groups, shipping, credit cards, orders, order history, bestsellers, to name just a few. So, naturally, there's more going on.

yeah i gave up early in the process there was too much going on for someone like me who doesn't really understand CSS to even tackle.

ok i just took a different approach to this and i think i'll be fine if the word press is similar but not the same as the zencart.

i'm just going keep tweeking the wordpress theme until i'm satisfied with it, as someone who doesn't know what he's doing this seems to e the easiest way to go.

but i do want to tackle the the Sidebox Anywhere thingy

the instructions seem a bit to advanced for me bt from doing a search would this be what i need to do?

1. upload the single_sidebox.php file to the root directory of my zencart.

2. create a blank wordpress sidebar widget to insert the following code.

$zcSBmodule = 'name.php';  // name of sidebox or centerbox to be displayed (see filenames in the /includes/modules/sideboxes folder) (if not set, uses "whats_new.php")
 *        $zcSBlayout = 'left';      // 'left' or 'right' sidebox template style (if not specified, uses 'left')
 *        require ("home/www/gorillagear.ca/store/single_sidebox.php");

what about the stylesheet for the my categories sidebox?

OK, I've customized quite a few wordpress themes.

You will need to find the sidebar1.php and sidebar2.php in wp-content/themes/YOUR THEME

If you do not have both, you might want to find a different theme. I have found that the multi-color theme is easy to customize.

In the sidebar2.php you can edit the file directly and add the content in plain html. Copy the necessary styles from your stylesheet into the wordpress stylesheet.

Hope that makes sense to you.

man creating a widget is hard especially when the instructions your using are for older version of wordpress that wasted an hour of my time.

just saw your post i just took a peek and my theme that i'm tweeking does have both sidebar php files so should i be useing the sidebox anywhere in there? for a quicker result