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"Re: William has a point" The key word in the book is "Start" as for making skins and such, there are plenty of ways outlined at www.zen-cart.com

"You need this book..."
I consider myself to be an experienced computer user, and even a sometimes programmer and developer. I thought the Zen Cart forums and wiki and tutorials would be sufficient. But then I saw this book. It's great! This book is the "missing manual" for Zen Cart. It carefully and thoroughly leads you through what you need to know to get started with Zen Cart. Most of all it keeps you from having to search the forums, not knowing, usually, what you're looking for. It has a well done Index and a well organized set of chapters, so no matter which way you approach a problem, you can find what you need. There's only about 40 pages (out of nearly 400 in total) about... More > customizing your store. But to be fair, that could easily be a whole book all to itself. This is the manual for Zen Cart, and it gets you started with your customization. And it's a good start. This is the first time I've ever purchased a print-after-order book, and I didn't know what to expect as far as quality. I'm very pleased with the paper and binding quality, and with the layout and readability of the book. I expect it'll be well thumbed and marked up in the near future. I think I need to go buy a box of sticky notes. < Less

"Fantastic!"
This book is money well spent. I am running on a WHM/cPanel hosting account and the Zen cart download went flawlessly. I even downloaded a great template with the help of this book. I love all of the power and options of Zen Cart but in my opinion the stock front page is ugly and cluttered, but there are a ton of free and purchasable templates out there on the web. This book is very in depth about all of the screens and options and the pictures look exactly as they appeared on my computer. I have been running an eBay store as well as an html based pay pal shopping cart for years and decided to take a step up in professionalism to a PHP based shopping cart. So far I am very... More > impressed with this book and Zen Cart as a whole. At first when I opened up my Zen Cart admin page it seemed very overwhelming, but this book helped me cut right into it and start making progress immediately, cleaning up the front page and omitting all of the standard options that I did not like, as well as the email and log in options. I highly recommend this book. < Less

"Absolutely amazing" Don't hesitate -- After fumbling around on my own for a few days, I caved in and bought this book...without a single regret! I blasted through this very clear and well written guide in about a day. Easy to understand language, concise, and it answered every question I had...and the ones I didn't know to ask. I've been in the software training industry for over 10 years and authored 3 books myself...this author knows how to teach!

I can remember the last time I felt so empowered and excited about learning a new application! A huge Ten Ton thanks to KH (the author) and the Zen dev team.

Geoff Blake
Ten Ton Books

"Excellent resource - buy if considering Zen Cart" This excellent book will help you decide whether or not you want to use Zen Cart or some other product.



I found the book to be easy to use and helped me decide to go ahead and choose Zen for my store. I had been expecting to pay someone more money than I can afford to set up the store, but it looks like I can easily do it myself.



So, that is what I will try next. I will post another review if it turns out I made a mistake in choosing Zen Cart, but in either case, this book was a great help in laying it all out for me in an easy to use fashion.