I have been developing Zen Cart websites for almost 5 years now – and I love it! I have also seen a large amount of Zen Cart users frustrated by the lack of unique Zen Cart templates that are available.

Well, the wait is almost over! If you love our designs, we will soon be bringing our style to you in a collection of  Zen Cart templates! What does this mean? You will now have the ability to have a creative and professional design with a custom look at a fraction of the price at I Love Zen Cart!

Our templates will be unique, creative, 100% Zen Cart compatible and come with great documentation to help you set up your new store on your own!

They will also be fully tested in all modern browsers and be CSS/XHTML compliant.

This assures you that you will be getting a template that will allow you to use all of the Zen Cart features in the admin area, allow the search engines to index your properly and will allow you to upgrade your site easily in the future. Other Zen Cart templates that are available today have issues in the core code that sometimes can prevent you from using certain Zen Cart features and may prevent the search engines from easily reading your site. We GUARANTEE this will not be the case with our templates!

Some will be basic, some will have great AJAX features! Some will even be free! New website templates will be added weekly during our launch phase!

What else do we have in store? How about a directory of modules separated out by Zen Cart version – a showcase of awesome Zen Cart website designs – a directory of commercial modules all in one place!

We will offer lots of great tutorials, tips and tricks and hope to be your one stop resource for everything you need for your Zen Cart store!

And no, we are not affiliated with Zen Cart in any way – we just love the cart!

A portion of all proceeds from I Love Zen Cart will go to the Zen Cart team for their dedication in making it a great open source shopping cart!

I Love Zen Cart is scheduled to open in October 2010 with a minimum of 5 templates. Head on over now to sign up for our newsletter for some great deals and promotions!

Zen Cart has released a new version which comes complete with a LOT of must have features. Below is a full list of the new improvements and fixes, the most important are in orange.

If you would like us to do your upgrade your Zencart site, our standard fee is $65. If your site is heavily modded it may be more. Formal quotes are provided before any work is completed. Please contact us at 732.241.5365 if you would like to be scheduled in for your update. If you are a former 2 Dogs Design client the fee is $50 flat!

• PHP 5.3.x compatibility
• PCI scan improvements to prevent commonly-reported false-positives
• SSL-detection improvements
• Session Handling improvements for shared-SSL configurations to deal with IE-specific quirks
• Session-Handler improvements: closing when done, removed redundant start, etc
• Search improvements
• Hack-attempt detection improvements
• Add .htaccess for /images/ folder, and security updates to many others as well
• Canonical URL support added for product pages and product listings. See /includes/init_includes/init_canonical.php
• Developer Toolkit Improvements (smarter searches, case-sensitive options, etc)
• USPS module updated to RateV3 API and includes all updates posted to April 2010
• PayPal UK – 3D-Secure support added
• PayPal micropayments support added
• Added CURL processing for PayPal IPN handling in case fsockopen() is disabled or failing
• Various updates to PayPal, Linkpoint (now renamed to FirstData) and Authnet Payment modules
• Split tax line support integrated
• Added per-EZ-page stylesheet support
• Fix ISO country/currency errors in default SQL file (old countries removed, etc)
• Fixes/updates/additions of various notifier calls
• MySQL 6-alpha preliminary compatibility
• Updates to spiders.txt file for stronger efficiency and more up-to-date data
• Improvements to configure.php file read-only detection (automatically sets to read-only if found writable, and permissions allow it)
• Various performance improvements, including freeing up wasted memory to make things run more lean
• PHP error logging automatically enabled by default, since errors are not displayed to the browser (for security reasons) (Log cleanup can be done from admin side via Store Manager)
• Turn off autocomplete on cc-number fields so browsers don’t store/retrieve that information
• Spam slamming via tell-a-friend is now throttled
• Admin-login-slamming protection – added delays to prevent brute-force password attacks