Magic Zoom on responsive websites
I love Magic Zoom – the ideal tool for letting your customers zoom into the details on your product images. Its relatively inexpensive and easy to integrate into most ecommerce platforms. http://www.magictoolbox.com/magiczoom/ I had installed recently with great success on www.handprintedgifts.com – which is a responsive online shopping site built with ZenCart. However the client […]
Create a gallery in Zencart using your Flickr sets
Zen Cart is great an all but it really doesn’t do image galleries very well. There are some plugins available but to be honest the admin interface is always a bit erm “clonky” in my opinion. Why not use Flickr to serve up your glorious pictures as a gallery?
How to get correct Zen Cart product thumbnail when posting to Facebook [Updated: 26th Aug 13]
When users post a link to your products on Facebook, its nice for the automatic link to show a picture of an actual product. Unfortunately Zen Cart doesn’t have this facility out of the box, but its not too tricky to add it yourself. In your template’s html_header.php add the following lines for all the […]