What Every New Zen Cart User Needs to Know

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Can I Use An Image For the Sidebox Header?
CAPITALIZED words refer to a folder or language that you choose. We use CUSTOM for your template and ENGLISH for your language by default. These generic terms should be change
- 2007-03-16 - Similar Articles

How do I add a category, subcategory or product?
Creating a category Login to your admin panel, point your cursor at Catalog in the top menu. Choose Categories/Products from the drop down menu.On the next page click the new
- 2007-04-18 - Similar Articles

How do I add additional links to the Header and Footer?
CAPITALIZED words refer to a folder or language that you choose. We use CUSTOM for your template and ENGLISH for your language by default. These generic terms should be change
- 2007-01-24 - Similar Articles

How do I change "Powered by Zen Cart" and add/position a new logo?
CAPITALIZED words refer to a folder or language that you choose. We use CUSTOM for your template and ENGLISH for your language by default. These generic terms should be change
- 2006-12-04 - Similar Articles

How do I change Page_? (name)
CAPITALIZED words refer to a folder or language that you choose. We use CUSTOM for your template and ENGLISH for your language by default. These generic terms should be change
- 2006-12-22 - Similar Articles

How do I change the "Congratulations! you have successfully installed..." Message?
CAPITALIZED words refer to a folder or language that you choose. We use CUSTOM for your template and ENGLISH for your language by default. These generic terms should be change
- 2006-12-04 - Similar Articles

How do I change the "Sales Message Goes Here" or "Tagline Here" text?
CAPITALIZED words refer to a folder or language that you choose. We use CUSTOM for your template and ENGLISH for your language by default. These generic terms should be change
- 2006-12-06 - Similar Articles

How do I change the category (or any other sidebox) title?
CAPITALIZED words refer to a folder or language that you choose. We use CUSTOM for your template and ENGLISH for your language by default. These generic terms should be change
- 2007-03-16 - Similar Articles

How do I change the Copyright message in the footer?
CAPITALIZED words refer to a folder or language that you choose. We use CUSTOM for your template and ENGLISH for your language by default. These generic terms should be change
- 2006-12-04 - Similar Articles

How do I change the Header Image?
CAPITALIZED words refer to a folder or language that you choose. We use CUSTOM for your template and ENGLISH for your language by default. These generic terms should be ch
- 2006-12-04 - Similar Articles

How do I change the Welcome Guest Message?
CAPITALIZED words refer to a folder or language that you choose. We use CUSTOM for your template and ENGLISH for your language by default. These generic terms should be change
- 2006-12-04 - Similar Articles

How do I create a new Custom Template?
Since Version 1.3.+ Zen Cart™ has moved away from its old table based layout to a CSS based layout. CAPITALIZED words refer to a folder or language that you choose. We
- 2007-07-14 - Similar Articles

How do I remove the Home in the middle column next to the Categories box?
CAPITALIZED words refer to a folder or language that you choose. We use CUSTOM for your template and ENGLISH for your language by default. These generic terms should be change
- 2006-12-30 - Similar Articles

How do I remove the logo completely?
CAPITALIZED words refer to a folder or language that you choose. We use CUSTOM for your template and ENGLISH for your language by default. These generic terms should be change
- 2006-12-04 - Similar Articles

How do I turn off the EZ-Pages Header Bar?
There are two ways to turn off the EZ-pages header bar. Firstly, it won't show if there are no links there, so turning off all link in the header (Admin > Tools > EZ-Pag
- 2007-07-10 - Similar Articles

How do I turn off the listing of categories that goes across the top of my page?
These are called the Category Tabs and can be switched off by setting Admin > Configuration > Layout Settings > "Categories-Tabs Menu ON/OFF" to zero.
- 2007-07-10 - Similar Articles

Is it ideal to use a WYSIWYG editor such as Dreamweaver to work with Zen Cart in Dreamweaver?
Yes and No. The pages displayed in your browser are made up of XHTML styled by CSS. XHTML is static and easy for WYSIWYG editors such as Dreamweaver in Design View to interpre
- 2007-09-16 - Similar Articles

Language Files - What are they and how are they used?
Zen Cart uses language files or a "languages system"  to define the text content used by the various display pages of your cart.An obvious benefit of the "
- 2006-11-04 - Similar Articles

Template Files - What are they and how are they used?
The template files used in Zen Cart™ provide the structure and layout of the various pagesof your cart. They make use of the definitions from your LANGUAGE FILES.These f
- 2007-07-16 - Similar Articles

The Override System really simplified
Wherever you see a folder named "classic" you can safely add your own /CUSTOM folder. includes    languages        class
- 2007-04-06 - Similar Articles

Understanding the Override System
This article is based on material originally posted by Networkdad, DrByte and other contributors."Template Override" and "Override System" are terms used t
- 2009-05-04 - Similar Articles

What directories contain all the template images? (i.e. buttons, icons, images etc.)?
CAPITALIZED words refer to a folder or language that you choose. We use CUSTOM for your template and ENGLISH for your language by default. These generic terms should be change
- 2007-03-27 - Similar Articles

What is "template_default"?
"template_default" is the master set of template files. Don't touch these (except when doing an upgrade). "classic" is a sample custom template. You can
- 2008-05-05 - Similar Articles

Where do I find the files I would edit to change other parts of my cart (i.e. template files, sideboxes, etc.)?
If you want to turn your sideboxes on and off, or move them left and right, you do this from the Admin control panel in Admin -> Tools -> Layout boxes controller. Other
- 2006-10-12 - Similar Articles

Where is the Admin / Back-end interface ?
You can access the Zen Cart admin area via your browser by pointing it to:http://WWW.YOUR_SITE.COM/admin/index.phpor, if you installed your site in a subfolder, like this:http
- 2007-05-11 - Similar Articles


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