For added security, the Zen Cart developer’s removed the autocomplete functionality for admin accounts requiring all admins to have to memorize their passwords. Combined the with 15 minute timeout and required password changes every 3 months, this can be quite annoying. It would have been nice if they made this optional… Anyways, getting the functionality…
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Changing the Charset in Zen Cart 1.3.9 to UTF-8
Regardless of whether you use accented or non-English characters in your descriptions and page content, setting up Zen Cart to use UTF-8 is recommended for the majority of stores. Today online shopping is globally accessible and from time to time you will get a customer whose name contains accented characters. In order to make these…
Read moreHow to display attribute images on the Zen Cart shopping cart page
Although Zen Cart supports defining an image for a product’s attribute (i.e. different colors of t-shirts for a color attribute), once you add the product to your cart, only the default image will display. Although you could hack the shopping cart page as per instructions in the Zen Cart forum, a simpler approach is to…
Read moreCSS Buttons vs Image Buttons
Using Image Buttons versus CSS Buttons is more than just a design issue, but also can greatly affect the performance of your server and your customer’s impression of the speed of the website. In Zen Cart, when configuring your store, you have the option in ADMIN->CONFIGURATION->LAYOUT SETTINGS to select whether or not to use CSS…
Read moreHow to Show SaleMaker Sales on the Specials Page
When you are a customer browsing a website, you probably do not differentiate a special from a sale. Why would you, they are exactly the same thing right? Not as far as Zen Cart is concerned. The default is that only specials display in their own listing and all sales items display inside the regular…
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