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Zen Cart v1.3.9a — Officially Released!

reitz — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 01:45:15 +0000

Zen Cart 1.3.9a is FINALLY HERE! The wait is over folks! Huzzah! and Hooray! Some killer upgrades are finally here! I’ll give a breakdown on what is in this over the next week!

via Zen Cart v1.3.9a — Officially Released! – Zen Cart Support.

ZenCart 1.3.9 BETA is now AVAILABLE

reitz — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 12:32:19 +0000

Please note this is ZenCart 1.3.9 BETA! TEST ONLY! Report back to the forum here! Do not use this on a LIVE Site folks!

v1.3.9 BETA AVAILABLE – Zen Cart Support.

PHP 5.3 Support – Zen Cart Support

reitz — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:37:18 +0000

The below comes from the man, the myth… Dr. Byte himself!

PHP 5.3 was released a few months ago, and along with it come many problems due to the PHP authors’ decisions to backport many PHP 6 features into 5.3 and deprecate several oft-required functions.

In so doing, they broke many things affecting Zen Cart operation in v1.3.8a and older.

We are preparing a patch which can be used by those whose hosts have upgraded (or have announced imminent plans to upgrade) to PHP 5.3.

We hope to post the patch here very soon. It’s in regression testing now.

When the patch is ready it will be announced here in the Announcements area.

via PHP 5.3 Support – Zen Cart Support.

Zen Cart 1.4 NOT being released!

reitz — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 14:19:44 +0000

Howdy folks. This announcement has been a long time a’comin’ but the zen cart developers have finally announced that zencart 1.4 will not ever come out. Does this mean the end of zen cart? Is the soon to be released 1.3.9 to be the summation, the culmination, the termination of all things zen cart?

Hmmm. well no. What it actually means is that Zen Cart 2.0 is coming out! The advancements put in place are revolutionary in scope. Latest versions of php and mysql are REQUIRED. ALL templates and plugins will need to be redesigned! ALL. This is a major redesign… kinda like going from Windows to a Mac. Everything is going to be different and radically faster. There are less queries to the database which means a massive increase in speed of pages rendering and a big decrease in load on mysql on the server.

I feel this is a massive announcement and quite bold. Add-ons will become plug and play like in WordPress. Less design work will be needed as a lot of this will be taken care of in the admin section. I personally hope this DOES lead to something elegant like the admin of a wordpress. It will be a radical change for people to learn it but it will be beautiful and fast and a needed revolution.

Stay tuned folks. I’ll be demoing the beta soon and will provide screencasts of these improvements and hopefully avoiding all of the bugs!

Site Redesign and New SEARCH TOOL

reitz — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 03:30:43 +0000

Howdy folks! Hope everyone is into the winter holiday season in full swing by now! I finally got around to redesigning my main site (zen cart) and the blog site (wordpress) to make them look a bit more uniform. It was just CSS changes though and some photoshop stuff. I mainly just made the content div tags transparent then added the main background a lightened robot with the magnifying glass. Way easier than I anticipated. And lastly, I added in a cross web app search tool in zen cart to search through the wordpress blog as well. This was pretty easy to set up as well. It is based on http://www.sphider.eu and is really cool. It requires a bit of programming to get it to run perfectly, but after that, it just rocks! I really like it as it takes all of the search results and puts it right into a defined page of zen cart. -Tom

Sample Zen Carts with Template Switcher

reitz — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:02:10 +0000

People are always asking me for samples of zen carts for look and feel, so I finally decided to assemble several of our favorites and included a nifty tool called Template Switcher on the left column that allows you to switch the look of the theme of the zen cart right before your eyes. It is pretty neat. Here is the link: Zen cart Sample Templates If you have any questions, please let us know! -Tom

“Don’t Use Google Analytics And Zen Cart If…”

reitz — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:36:27 +0000

One of my favorite Zen Cart mods – Google Analytics for Zen Cart is the absolute best solution for tagging all of your pages easily and rapidly. If you have an estore, be sure to go the full route and make sure the success page gets the correct tagging to send back to GA and link in to your ecommerce stats… this is vital folks! This allows you to be able to directly exactly which keywords generate how much MONEY! Once this is known, Zen Cart optimization is a cake walk!

“Is Google Analytics Really Needed For Zen Cart?”

reitz — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 03:44:36 +0000

How important is it to you to install Google Analytics into your Zen Cart??? Only the most important thing you could possibly do… Without it, you are completely blind to knowing what to do… what is your top landing page? What is your top exit page? What is your bounce rate? What are the trends for any of these? Which keyword search makes you the most money? These are just a few things… without this knowledge, you are wasting a LOT of time guessing what to do to your site… so many people come to me wanting to change their theme or their look of the current theme… and the first thing I ask is, “What is your bounce rate?” After a beat, and no answer… they realize that they have no idea what I am talking about… I had one client with a bounce rate of 19% who was wanting a website redesign, and I told her flat out NO… not needed, spend your money elsewhere (Folks, a 19% bounce rate is GREAT. This means that slightly less than 1 out of 5 of ALL VISITORS to her site, left immediately! This is great cause the industry average is 30 to 40%!)