I have played around with zen cart for a couple of weeks, thinking I would eventually understand how it works but have now come to the conclusion I'm just stupid.

So to solve my many problems, I am going to ask real simple and specific questions in the hope that one day in the not to distant future, I will have a store up and running.

So let's start at the beginning.

If anyone would care to look at the following page, http://www.arkwrightandgladys.com/ I would like to accomplish the following:

1. I want to remove the 'Powered By Zen Cart the art of commerce' logo and replace it with my own.

2. I want to change the 'Sales Message Goes Here' to my sales message.

3. i want to remove 'Congratulations! You have successfully installed your Zen Cart™ E-Commerce Solution'

If one or more of you kind and wonderful people could solve these initial problems for me, I can move on to much more complicated operations for you to solve.

Many thanks
Arkie....

Your in luck Arkie

I've just had to go through the painful process of customising ZC:

1. If you right click on the image and select properties it will give you the location of the graphic:

http://www.arkwrightandgladys.com/
includes/
templates/
classic/
images/
logo.gif

2. To change the message text in the page header, go to the file header.php as shown below. You will have to change your template.

/includes/languages/english/classic/header.php

define('HEADER_SALES_TEXT', '<h1>Sales Message Goes Here</h1>');

Changed to:

define('HEADER_SALES_TEXT', '');

if you want it blank

3. go to: includes/languages/english/index.php

Remove text and leave quotes

TEXT_GREETING_GUEST (Congratulations! You have successfully installed your Zen Cart™ E-Commerce Solution.)

The best thing about ZC is the ZC help forum where I found these fixes for my new site:

www.themagicchest.co.uk



Yours BH

No..you should make a copy of
includes/languages/english/index.php
and place in folder
includes/languages/english/classic/
and edit that copy to requirements.

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Hi Guys

Thanks for your replies. I think that maybe when I made the original post, I didn't quite get across the level of Technophobia you would be dealing with.

For example, I tried putting the following text into an online translator but despite trying every language in it's database, it was unable to translate it into English.

"/includes/languages/english/classic/header.php

define('HEADER_SALES_TEXT', '<h1>Sales Message Goes Here</h1>');

Changed to:

define('HEADER_SALES_TEXT', '');"

I was kind of looking for something like:

" Press the little green button at the bottom left hand side of your screen that says 'start', then click on the word 'programs' etc. etc"

Does that help give some understanding of what you're dealing with? Please don't worry about insulting me, if you think I'm just too stupid to have an online store then please say so. I'm not easily offended.

Regards
Arkie...

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Float On By ~ The One Stop Hook & Float Shop

ZenCart and Oscommerce are not easy to configure at the outset, but as
long as you can use ftp and have notepad or another text editing prog..then you will get there eventually.
It will not happen overnight however.
ZenCart Forum is your friend i.e.
Search function and/or
http://tutorials.zen-cart.com/index.php
Alternatively, post here on eshopforums..there is usually someone around
to help...

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/includes/languages/english/classic/header.php This is the path to the file to be edited. You can access it with your FTP client. When you locate it, download it and open it in a plain text editor such as notepad (don't use Word, Works or any other editor that formats text). When edited to your requirements, simply upload it back to the same location on the server.

define('HEADER_SALES_TEXT', '<h1>Sales Message Goes Here</h1>'); This is the line of code in the file you need to look for to edit. You can either use the line supplied above to delete the defined text or replace it with text of your choosing.

If you are still unfamiliar with FTPing then I'd recommend creating a folder on your server called "Test" which you can usually do with an FTP client using a similar method to creating folders in Windows. You can use this folder to practice transferring, renaming and editing files. You should also get into the habit of backing up your Zen files so you can quickly replace them if something goes wrong.

Don't worry if it all looks a bit daunting, once you've done it a few times it will become much easier.

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Lawrence

Thanks for your replies...

So how do I upload something back? I have found the file referred to and I have edited out the 'sales message goes here' text. I then clicked on 'save' and closed notepad.

No idea what to do with it now. Also when I re opened the same file, the changes I made have not been saved, so I'm guessing even if I had worked out how to upload it back to the server, it wouldn't have made any difference.

Arkie....

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Float On By ~ The One Stop Hook & Float Shop

When you save it from notepad, do "save as" and save it to a location you are familiar with such as your desktop or "My Documents". If you open the file from here it should reflect the changes you have made. To upload it back to the server you can do it in exactly the same way that you downloaded it but in reverse i.e navigate to the file on your PC with your FTP client and click the upload button, you must make sure the server pane of the S/W is still in the same location from where the file originated from otherwise it will end up somewhere else on the server. Another way to do it with WS_FTP is to left click and drag the file onto the server side of the S/W window.

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Lawrence

Ok...

Starting to get somewhere now. I've managed to remove the 'powered by zencart' stuff and I've changed the 'sales message goes here' text, though I don't know how to change the new text position, font & colour?

What I can't seem to do is change the logo pic. I have placed a jpeg image into the folder as suggested and have then changed the name of the logo in the header file, but nothings happened. Any help on this one would be much appreciated.

Arkie...

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Float On By ~ The One Stop Hook & Float Shop

Forget that last question about the logo, seem to have done it, though it's far to big. I'll redo the logo later.

So for the moment would just like to know how to change position, font and font colour of any text I use?

thanks
Arkie...

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Float On By ~ The One Stop Hook & Float Shop

You surround the text with HTML tags to do that. e.g. <b>This is an example of how to use bold tags</b>. See this site for all the tags you will ever need. http://www.w3schools.com/html/

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Lawrence

I think you and I would get on Arkie, thats my level too!
Susie x

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