In Zen Cart, a banner is an advertising graphic (or HTML code) that is used to draw attention. It is useful for affiliate links, advertising, cross-selling, and highlighting featured items in ways that graphics work better than sideboxes. A "banner" should not be confused with a "header image" which shows at the top of your page with your logo on it, etc.

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The breadcrumbs are a navigational aid showing where you are and how to get back to previous locations.

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). A simple way of adding styles (i.e. fonts, colors, spacing) to Web documents.

All products in Zen Cart are allocated to one of more categories. Categories may be organized hierarchically and may therefore contain subcategories. They can contain products or subcategories, but should never contain both.

CGI (Common Gateway Interface) is a standard protocol for interfacing external application software with an information server, commonly a web server.

This parameter identifies a character encoding, which is a method of converting a sequence of bytes into a sequence of characters.

changes the access permissions or modes of the specified files or directories. Modes determine who can read, change or execute a file. Also See: File Permissions

cPanel (control panel) is a graphical web-based management tool, designed to make administration of web sites as easy as possible.

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). A simple way of adding styles (i.e. fonts, colors, spacing) to Web documents.

cURL is a command line tool for transferring files with URL syntax

The CVV is a 3 or 4 digit code embossed or imprinted on the reverse side of Visa, MasterCard and Discover cards and on the front of American Express cards.

The three-digit number printed in the signature space on the back of most credit cards.

Zen Cart is designed to be multi-lingual and so all textual data such as headings or introductory text that is not held in its database is held in language files. These files contain list of PHP define statements containing pairs of terms, where the first is that to be defined and the second the definition or text that you will see in your Zen Cart. For example, the includes/languages/english.php file contains the following define statement that determines the title of the "what's new" sidebox: define('BOX_HEADING_WHATS_NEW', 'New Products');

The DNS (domain name system) translates domain names (computer hostnames) to IP addresses.

Domain names are hostnames that stand in for numeric IP addresses

A fast, easy way of creating links and additional pages.

FCKeditor is one of the more popular web-based HTML editing tools available. Installing this plugin allows you to use FCKeditor instead of HTMLarea when entering product descriptions and composing content pages as well as html-formatted email messages.

Controls the ability of the users to view or make changes to the contents of files.

FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is used to download or to upload a file to a server.

Software program (client) you use to upload your website and files as well as download files and web pages.

Image format used for clip-art style pictures.

The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a widely used free software license. The GPL grants the recipients of a computer program the following rights: * the right to run the program, for any desired purpose. * the right to study how the program works, and modify it. (Access to the source code is a precondition for this) * the right to redistribute copies. * the right to improve the program, and release the improvements to the public. (Access to the source code is a precondition for this)

The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a widely used free software license. The GPL grants the recipients of a computer program the following rights: * the right to run the program, for any desired purpose. * the right to study how the program works, and modify it. (Access to the source code is a precondition for this) * the right to redistribute copies. * the right to improve the program, and release the improvements to the public. (Access to the source code is a precondition for this)

gzip is short for GNU zip, a GNU free software file compression program.

This is the graphic image which appears at the top of your cart and also contains your logo.

File extension which allows implemention of custom error pages or password protected directories and much more.

HTML is used to structure information.

HTTPS is a method used to transfer or convey information with an additional encryption/authentication layer on the World Wide Web.

Software program used to work with photographic or clip art graphics.

An IP address (Internet Protocol address) is a unique number that devices use in order to identify and communicate with each other

An ISP (Internet service provider) is a business or organization that offers users access to the Internet and related services.

image file format used for photo images

A computer program or software agent that transfers electronic mail messages from one computer to another.

Information inserted into the "head" area of your web pages allowing the ability to control to some degree how those pages are described by some search engines.

Information inserted into the "head" area of your web pages allowing the ability to control to some degree how those pages are described by some search engines.

MySQL is a multithreaded, multi-user, SQL Database Management System.

Preserve your customized files when upgrades and patches are released.

Preserve your customized files when upgrades and patches are released.

Directory (such as /CUSTOM) where your customized files are stored.

Preserve your customized files when upgrades and patches are released.

Preserve your customized files when upgrades and patches are released.

Controls the ability of the users to view or make changes to the contents of files.

A widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development.

phpBB is a high powered, fully scalable, and highly customizable Open Source bulletin board package.

A tool to handle the administration of MySQL. It can create and drop databases, create/drop/alter tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute any SQL statement, and manage keys on fields.

Image format used for clipart type images.

The store root or root folder is the directory in your local computer or external hosting account into which you have installed Zen Cart. This is the directory that contains the following sub directories: admin, cache, docs, download, editors, email, extras, images, includes, media and pub. It may also occasionally be used to refer to a superuser account or the top level directory on a Linux server.

Message that appears at the top of your page.

A sales tax is a state or locality imposed percentage tax on the selling or renting of certain property or services.

Sendmail is a mail transfer agent

A computer that provides services to other computers, or the software that runs on it.

Sideboxes are those boxes to be found in the left or right hand columns of a Zen Cart. They typically contain a header (title) at the top and a content block below it. They can be turned on and off via the Admin > Tools > Layout Box Controller.

SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) is the de facto standard for e-mail transmissions across the Internet.

SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) is the de facto standard for e-mail transmissions across the Internet.

Spam (electronic), unsolicited or undesired bulk electronic messages.

SSL provides endpoint authentication and communications privacy over the Internet using cryptography.

SSL certificates can provide you with non-forgeable proof of your website's identity.

Stylesheets are made up of style rules describing how documents are presented in a browser.

Sub categories are categories that are contained within a higher level category. Subcategories may themselves contain subcategories, or they may contain products. They should not contain both.

Message that appears at the top of your page.

The weight of a container and/or packing materials without the weight of the goods it contains.

A tax is a financial charge or other levy imposed on an individual.

The term template has two uses in Zen Cart. In its most general sense it describes the collection of files that together give a Zen Cart it's overall appearance. These files can be found in the includes/templates folder. It can also be used to describe a particular file that shapes a specific part of a Zen Cart. Such files typically start "tpl_" and can be found in a template's (general usage) common, sideboxes or templates sub-folders.

Software program used to edit your files before uploading them to your server.

TinyMCE is one of the more popular web-based HTML editing tools available. Installing this plugin allows you to use TinyMCE instead of HTMLarea when entering product descriptions and composing content pages as well as html-formatted email messages.

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URL (Uniform Resource Locator) provides a means of locating a resource on the internet.

VAT (Value-added tax) is a type of sales tax.

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Extensible HyperText Markup Language

Extensible HyperText Markup Language. Allows some common deprecated elements and attributes not found in XHTML 1.0 Strict to be used.

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A zenID is the session variable that carries information in the URL.