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SQL Tricks for Zen Cart

Melanie Prough — Fri, 13 May 2011 14:54:21 +0000

Sometimes the tools we have just aren’t going to cut it. These little SQL patches to be run in your Zen Cart admin are just the trick to complete these items quickly and efficiently. Please backup your database before proceeding.

Google Analytics Tricks for Zen Cart

Melanie Prough — Wed, 11 May 2011 14:27:24 +0000

Most people can get Google Analytics installed and working on their Zen Cart, but hardly any are getting the most from Google Analytics. Here is a quick tutorial on setting it up Google Analytics.

Do You Know What Your Shoppers Expect?

Melanie Prough — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 20:43:55 +0000

This is a very keen subject for shop owners, as many never even consider this…. While developing an ecommerce store for clients we hear terms like this from the clients all the time:

Zen Cart Usability in a Nutshell

Melanie Prough — Fri, 14 May 2010 16:15:41 +0000

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So you have your new Zen Cart up and running, have a bit of traffic and you are ready to make some money… Right?

Styling Specific Category Pages

Melanie Prough — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 17:34:20 +0000

This really doesn’t come up very often, but there are times that a specific Zen Cart category has special function or design need. In our case, the category needed a specific look. This category was set up as a landing page for a specific marketing campaign and needed to be styled in the likeness of the campaign pop.

Perfect Product Pages

Melanie Prough — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 10:32:47 +0000

There are many components necessary to build a perfect Zen Cart product page, but I am going to give you a good start... to get your brain wrapped around the concept.

New PCI Issue in Zen Cart

Melanie Prough — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:32:45 +0000

This PCI issue is related to users being allowed to submit/transmit login and/or credit card data over an unencrypted connection. This is not a server issue with relationship to your Zen Cart, but rather a Zen Cart software issue.

How to Add Your Own Admin Tab / Page Title

Melanie Prough — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:29:43 +0000

By default your Zen Cart administration section uses Zen Cart! as the pages titles and tab title. For most this isn’t a big deal, but if you have many stores it may be helpful to name them more logically. Maybe you just want to change it for aesthetic reasons… In any case, it’s a simple tweak to change in in your 1.3.x Zen Cart.

Page Scrolling Selects Field of Form in Zen Cart

Melanie Prough — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:17:46 +0000

Quick tip here, for a aggravating problem. We commonly install the returns authorization module for Zen Cart. It’s nice and very effective. The returns page has the ability to define text, making it the logical choice for your returns policy.

Main Page Include ONLY

Melanie Prough — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:59:10 +0000

Recently we had a project come in where the customer had a bit of code, with some images and text that he wished to display on the main page only of his Zen Cart. Initially, I mistakenly thought that and index override of the tpl_main_page.php would cover it… Not so, this also produced the code section on all product index pages as well as the main page.