Step 1 is to sign up for the FREE standard edition

Step 2 is to follow the setup guide. There are a couple of things you will need to do that you may need help with. We will now detail those.

Setup Guide Tasks

First you will be asked to verify your domain ownership. This is most easily done by uploading the html file to your hosted account.

• Download the .html gile to your desktop. DO NOT OPEN, NOR EDIT/CHANGE this file in any way.
• Next login to your cPanel and Go to the file manager.
• Make the selections shown in the following image

• Once inside of the file manager you need to verify that your are in /public_html/.
• On the top menu bar click the "Upload" icon.

• Select the Google html file from your desktop. You will see the progress indicator in the lower right hand corner.
• Once the upload is complete, close the file manager, but not your cPanel.
• The next tougher task is to change your MX entries. This is also done in your cPanel.

• Once in the MX editor, delete the entry for your domain. NOTE: this will temporarily stop your mail, but is necessary to switch. Usually it is less than a day, do it on a weekend perhaps.
• In the MX editor you will add several (all) of the new MX entries provided to you by Google. Note that the entries provided have a period following them, do not copy the period only the entry ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM for example.

• Once the DNS for the MX changes is complete there is 1 more thing you will want to do.... Create a CNAME for a nice easy link to get to your mail. (http://mail.domain.com)
• You will add the extension you want to the form, commonly mail.

• Next you will be asked to setup the CNAME on your hosting. Open your cPanel.
• 
• In the CNAME form you will add mail (our example) in the name field.
• Next you will add ghs.google.com in the CNAME field and click "Add CNAME Record".
• This will take several hours before your custom link (http://mail.domain.com) will work.

That's it! You did it!

Here are some excellent tutorials for using Google Aps to it potential for your business.

• Gmail

  • Overview
  • Setting up Gmail
  • Enabling User Options
  • Advanced Configuration
  • Advanced Email Delivery
  • Limits and Security
  • Best practices in Outlook Mail
  • IMAP and POP access

• Google Calendar

  • Calendar Features
  • Setting up Calendars
  • Managing Resources (Rooms, etc.)
  • Calendar FAQs for Administrators
  • Migrating and Syncing Calendars
  • Troubleshooting

• Google Docs

  • Docs sharing options
  • Google Docs Upload
  • Google Apps - purchase storage
  • Sync your Microsoft® Office documents using Google Cloud Connect
  • Transfer ownership of Google Docs
  • Enable Google Docs Offline

Core Settings

Protocol: AUTH TLS
HOST: here you can use ftp.domain.com, or your account's IP
USER: Logging in with the root cPanel credentials for your account is still permitted, however not recommended. We suggest you set up users with their own FTP account. Here is a tutorial to do so (http://pro-webs.net/tutorials/how-do-i-create-an-ftp-account-in-cpanel/). Once complete the user will login with name@domain.com as the user.
Password: Set
Port: 21

CyberDuck Settings

Special thanks to Chris at Cops protective services for the screenshot!

FileZilla Settings

Special thanks to Romy at Elephat for the screenshot!

If you are using other software you will be looking for a protocol for a SSL/TLS secured connection. They will be referred to as many different names such as AUTH TLS, TLS, FTPS, FTPES or SSL/TLS. However, you will not be using SSH or SFTP.

• ***NOTE: FileZilla may not work for you under a TLS connection.
• Note we also have come to understand that older operating systems, such as Windows XP haven't the necessary RSA encryption to handle a TLS connection.
  

1. In your Zen Cart admin navigate to M1 Export Tools and choose Google Base Export from the drop down.
2. In the second section called "Products to Export" see Click to Setup Google Product Category link.
3. Upon clicking this link you will have to allow it in your pop up blocker.
4. In the Google Base Category Matching screen you will see all of your categories, note that each category is set to use the same taxonomy as it's master and you only need to change those which need it.
5. To change a Google category check this chart (http://www.google.com/support/merchants/bin/answer.py?answer=160081) to locate your category and begin typing in the field. This will trigger the drop down for you to select your category... then save.

Any product w/o a Google category after 9/22/2011 will not be added to Google product search.

Click the insert button near the bottom right, which opens the manufacturer's input screen top right (shown below).

Fill the manufacturer's name ( be conscious of the length, as the length value has a max in your Zen Cart). Fill the manufacturer's image if desired. Upload the image and save.

The manufacturer's url is not needed, and is not currently used in Zen Cart templates.

If you need to increase the maximum length of manufacturers name to display in the manufacturer's side box you can do so in Configuration >> Maximum Values >> Length of Manufacturers Name

Step 1

Select or create the category you will be linking the products in to.

Step 2

Browse in your admin under Catalog >> Categories/Products and find the product to link.

In the image below you will see we are going to click on the BLUE button to the right with the "C" on it next.

Linking Products in Zen Cart Tutorial

Step 3

As seen in the image below, in the right hand options you will do the following:

• Check the radio button that says Duplicate product
• In the "Categories:" dropdown you will select the new additional location for the product
• You will click the "Copy" button

DO NOT FORGET TO SELECT LINK PRODUCT

Repeat as needed and these linked products will display in as many categories as you wish.

Step 1:

Navigate to Tools >> Image Handler2

Step 2:

Select the Manager Tab

Step 3:

In the manager screen, browse to the product to add the images to.

Image Handler Manager Screen, Click to enlarge

Step 4:

Click the new file button on the right under Click to add a new image to this product.

Step 5:

You can upload medium and large images as well, but for this purpose we will use the browse button for Default image file. Browse to your image, and click the Save Button of the bottom right (as seen below).

Upload the additional image

This will upload the additional product image, name it correctly and display it where your template calls for them in your product pages. Nice and easy, no FTP and no coding image links.

In this tutorial we will create an override for the Zen Cart featured products side box module file.

First we will copy the default featured products module file (includes/modules/sideboxes/featured_products.php) to your custom template override folder (includes/modules/sideboxes/YOUR_TEMPLATE_NAME/featured_products.php). If you haven't a folder in modules/sideboxes/ with your correct template name, you can create one.

Once copied over, download /YOUR_TEMPLATE_NAME/featured_products.php to your computer and open it in PSPad for editing.

Find this line of code

$show_featured= true;

and change it to read

if ($this_is_home_page) {
$show_featured = true;
} else {
$show_featured = false;
}

Now save the file and upload it to includes/modules/sideboxes/YOUR_TEMPLATE_NAME/featured_products.php. The conditional statement you just added will allow for your Zen Cart featured products sidebox to display on all enabled pages, except the main page.

You will find your CRON manager icon in the very bottom utility box (Advanced) in your cPanel main dashboard screen.

Once you click the CRON jobs icon you are taken to the CRON selection screen. In this screen you will choose the means to manage CRON based on your level of experience. New users will select "standard".

In this screen you will actually setup your new CRON.

The first field, "Command to run" will likely be as above or even an http:// address within your website. This is the actual function you wish to schedule the execution for.

The other fields are to schedule the timing of the CRON. Minutes means, how many minutes apart to run the CRON for example. If you are setting a weekly CRON for example you would need only to select the Day and time as the minutes become unnecessary.

Try to run your CRON at a time when you website is less busy for optimum performance. Additionally note, that PRO-Webs and most other hosting companies will not allow you to run a CRON job in shorter than 10 minute intervals.

CRON jobs are an easy way to configure scripts and functions to run without human intervention, but keeping a close eye on your CRONs and their timing is crucial for the seamless running of your website as well.

1. To get started login to your PRO-Webs hosting cPanel

2. In the 3rd box down called "Files", select the FTP icon.

Select the FTP Icon as Shown

3. Once in the FTP manager, you will see the following options to create and FTP account.

FTP Manager Account Creation

4. You have several options to create accounts.

• Username: You will enter a unique username. Once finished the login will be username@domain.com to use FTP.
• Password: Use a strong 10 character or more alpha numeric password. This will be the user's password to login with.
• Directory: This is where you can allow full access or limit the user to a specific directory. Full access (including outside of the root) will be blank, Just account http or public html access will be public_html/. Additionally, you can limit the user to a specific folder such as public_html/data/
• Quota: this is the amount of transfer you wish to allow the user for FTP.

5. Once you have filled everything in, click the create account button. The user will login to FTP using the following information.

Host: ftp.yourdomain.com

User: username@yourdomain.com

Password: the exact one you setup

In the mean time we have written this Zen Cart tutorial to help you determine if your Zen Cart has been hacked in this manner and help you get cleaned up as well.