What is a Template?
Basic information about how to change your site’s appearance
Template System
Template customization and building overrides
Basic Template Customizations
What are the most common template changes people do first?
Template Overrides System
What’s the best way to change a template?
Accessibility Compliance Questions
WCAG and Section 508
Add image to sidebox or centerbox
Using a sidebox or centerbox to show product images
Adding a tracking pixel
Integrating with systems that use tracking pixels
Buttons
How to customize buttons
Can I use an image for a sidebox header
Sidebox headers don’t have to be text
Centerboxes
What are Zen Cart centerboxes?
Columnar Layout for Product Listing pages
Displaying products in columns
Creating the template_info.php file
Why doesn’t my template show up in Tools > Template Selection?
Creating your own Template
The steps required to build a Zen Cart template
CSS
Stylesheet customization in Zen Cart
Customizing your Site
Customizing the appearance of your store
Define Pages
Customizing your store with define pages
Extra Pages
The built-in extra pages
Favicon
How do I set my own favicon?
Font Awesome
The use of the fontawesome.io in your template
How do I add links to the Header and Footer?
Putting important links on every page
How do I enable "Customers Also Purchased" display?
Showing what other customers purchased
How do I find the value of a configuration setting?
Where are the all-uppercase strings set?
How do I remove and/or re-arrange the sideboxes?
Sidebox display and sort order
How to rearrange the product info page
Changing the product info page layout
Index Listing Configuration
Configuring product listing pages and associated centerboxes
JavaScript Customization
Adding or changing JavaScript
Left and Right Columns - turning them off
Three columns, two, or one - your choice
Listing Page Layout
How Zen Cart shows multiple results on one page
Mobile or Desktop state?
Determining your visitor’s screen size
New Listing - Featured Listing - All Listing configuration settings
Configuration for New Products, Featured Products and All Products pages
Other templates for Zen Cart
Changing the appearance of your cart by using a new template
Page format in the storefront
What are the parts of a page?
Page types in the storefront
What kinds of pages are available?
Pagination in Zen Cart
How do you display a large number of results?
Privately testing a new template
Allowing an admin test a new template on a live site
Responsive Templates
What makes a template responsive?
Sideboxes
What are Zen Cart sideboxes?
Site Footer
How can I change my storefront footer layout?
Site Header
How can I change my storefront header layout?
Template Default - what is it?
Zen Cart Template Default - what is it?
Template Images
What directories contain all the template images? (i.e. buttons, icons, images etc.)?
Template Pages
Controlling what a page looks like
Why does this plugin not work with Template Monster Templates?
Plugin works with template_default or responsive_classic, but not my template
Do you have a suggestion for a FAQ? Please post it to General Questions on the support forum.
Last modified May 17, 2020 by Scott C Wilson (c86917b).