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Archive for March, 2011
3 Stages of Zen Cart Store – Technical Overview
Zen Cart store owners often seek help from us about how to make a schedule of technical development of their shopping cart. They want to know what to do and how to do certain jobs in a specific stage. They don’t want to think too much on those topics since they are not their focus. [...]
The Spirit of GNU License
Introduction Being a open source member for more than 6 years, we receive questioning about why their contributions are listed on our site for sale. It’s almost the same question: I spent the time to develop it, how dare you sell it without my agreement? Well, it may sound harsh, but we do dare. Here’s [...]
How You Sell Online
Selling online obeys the general marketing laws: Find your customers, Ask what they need, Satisfy them (FAS). Does this sound easy enough? Well, you need to practice a lot to master the keys. Find Your Customers Hey, focus the word “YOUR”. It’s your customers, not other person’s customers. Your customers are equal to the marketing [...]
MySQL Backup
Dear Zen Cart store owners, you are lucky with this add-on. It saves your headache to backup your database. This is a must have add-on of your site if you don’t want to cry for help when your server is down due to all kinds of reasons. The author is a genius. Why it’s not [...]
Security Patch v138 20090619
Read it here: http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=130161 It seems Dr.Byte was really scared about this security issues. And some of my clients reported that their site have been affected. Do install this even your site seems to be safe. The key is “rename admin folder”. Some Zen Cart users reported that they can’t login to admin after renaming. [...]
20 Most important Add-ons of Zen Cart
If you are a Zen Cart store owner, and has some basic knowledge of Add-ons, do you know how many add-ons are there? In mid 2009, the number is around 730. However, there are only less than 60 add-ons are really critical to most users. Today we would to introduce “20 most important add-ons of [...]
SEO Package
This package only offers to our existing clients who had already bought something (add-ons, customization service, etc.) from us. If you understand SEO, please read the following email, which is a typical in explaining how this package works. Yes, that sounds fine Hao. Chelsea www.scrapboutique.com.au From: Hao Sent: Thursday, 10 December 2009 3:10 [...]
Julia’s Jewelry Store
You may be amazed the first two show cases in our blog are all about women’ stores. You can read another story here: Jazzah’s Party Suppliers Store Profitable Online Jewelry Store Julia and her jewelry store is another successful story. I know you guys love this kind of stories. Unlike Jazzah, Julia had long time [...]
Jazzah’s Party Suppliers Store
Imagine a mother of 3 children, without enough Zen Cart knowledge and business experience, how long can she survive in her first online business trip? A Tough Start If you think that’s not tough enough, here is something that may upset you: Database always can’t connect Orders lost when server is down Hosting company forced [...]
Admin Tools – improve your management efficiency
Wow, you are an admin now! It must be rather excited to upload your first product and harvest the first order. Then you want to be quicker and easier just as many store owners did. Frankly speaking, Zen Cart admin management is must better than osCommerce. If you have been working on osCommerce shopping cart [...]