hi everyone i think we should start a post on wheres the best place to get free ecommerce/business templates.

i am currently looking and trying out free templates and hace found some good ones but none that really catch the eye.

im sure some one out there knows where to get them and i think it would be very helpful for myself and others beginning in eccommerce with a tight budget

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An extensive search on Google for free Zen Cart templates has proved to be suprisingly unfruitful.
Every response I got to my search either brought up a dead link or far from free.
I too would apreciate seeing a positive response to this request
I am new to Zen Cart and want to try out different templates without a huge expense involved

If you want something decent , and different from other sites, then I am afraid you may well have no choice but to pay.Its only a one off payment and isn't as expensive as you probably think.

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There are free templates around for zencart, but you risk
having your store looking like hundreds of others when
for small investment you could purchase custom design.

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Hi Guys, I pretty new on this forum.

I just wanted to say that I have had some luck with finding good free templates over the past few months. True, there are not too many out there to choose from, but what I normally do is when I do find a good one, I change it to suite what I need it for.

One of the things I have learned about using open source packages like these is that that are really quite simple to change. The layout are all very similar from one to the next, so the real changes are just cosmetic like changing the pictures and backgrounds, and maybe adding some links that you would like on your site.

For example.. All the sideboxes and made up of images, so all you have to do is download the images from the sites image folder and change them to suit, keeping the sizes the same of course

I find that some people get a bit nervous about changing things on an osc/zencart template incase they screw up the store, but as long as you have the original files at hand, all you have to do is upload the file to replace the one you messed up, and your site is back to normal again.

Anyway, I have probably blabbered on a bit for my first post here, but if it helps anyone, then blabbering is a good thing LOL

regards

DB

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i have come a long way with zen cart from knowing nothing to learning all of the basics plus installing more advanced features such as

Royal Mail Postage
Paypal Verifed Badge
Live Help
Google Base Feeder
Banner Export Feeder
and many more

but i have found lots of great templates on Zen Carts Download Page.
AND TOTALLY FREE

FREE ZEN CART TEMPLATES CLICK HERE

Zen Cart also offers a page full of free module downloads where you can install royal mail postage,worldpay payment module,sitemap module, additional sidebox's, admin tools, marketing tools, pricing tools and 100's more

CLICK HERE FOR FULL LIST OF FREE ZEN CART MODULES

i am no expert but i found some of these downloads are must have's and should be included in zen cart as standard.

please give your comments on these downloads

many regards

topebaydog

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Most of free zencart templates and mods offered in downloads
section at zencart forums are fine...HOWEVER, there are many
that are NOT suitable/have not been updated to latest
zencart release.

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i would personally disagree i have encountered no problems with any of the zen cart downloads.

i think you have to choose your template carefully as your "look" is very important.

i know what its like to be on a tight budget and not want to hand out for a template im sure many will argee.

are there zen cart addons external to zen cart downloads

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So you have tried/tested all the downloads/free templates available
and can confirm they work correctly with latest zencart release.

There are other zencart addons available..just matter
of knowing where to look... many are hidden in specific
forum posts.

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no i havnt tired and tested every single addon but i know a majority off them do work.

do they not get updated when a new version of Zen Cart comes out.

can you take a look at my site and tell me what you think about it

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Unfortunately not all are updated on new zencart releases...
depends on developer who created them

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Be very careful, I had to start from scratch with one site as one of their mods didn't work

At the end of the day you only get what you pay for, if its free what do you expect!
I am not knocking zencart as I use it, but I would upgrade to a custom made site in the future

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