Now, for the record, I know I don't talk about
ZenCart on this site much....actually, I believe this is the first time I've mentioned it. It's been my plan, ever since this site's conception, to eventually put in the things I learn about ZenCart. One of the companies who use me as a subcontractor loves ZenCart, and I've found myself customizing that little doohickey more often than I ever thought I would.
My inital contact with ZenCart was, to say the least, a nightmare. As a person who fully supports web standards and tableless design, I wanted to shoot myself. ZenCart came "totally tabled" and not very clean, either. You had to hack core files to get what you wanted, and I hacked a lot of core files. There were times when I just wanted to kill my computer - it was very frustrating. It got done, though, and it turned out to be lovely.
But the creators of ZenCart have greatly improved - by leaps and bounds, actually. My first experience with ZenCart was only last year. Over that span of time, they have moved forward so quickly, it's almost unbelievable. Now, you can get it completely tableless (well, almost completely) and they've created a "template override" system so you don't have to hack the core code anymore.
I've been coding another ZenCart site - it's about to go live - and it's absolutely beautiful.
The site is a photographer's site, and she wanted something that - by the stuff you read in the forums - was utterly impossible. The photographer was sorely disappointed, because when she went to trade shows, this was her best-selling item. What she wanted was to sell by an attribute - but ZenCart doesn't really allow for that.
But someone came along to save the day.
