Web Development

Posted by P. Berge

I have been watching the development of PrestaShop and it was showing a lot of promise. The long feature list, clean look and seemingly easy setup process really caught my eye. The one major missing component was support for one of the most popular payment processors in the U.S., Authorize.net. Last week I received an email from the PrestaShop team with a big announcement about support for Authorize.net. This was exactly what I had been waiting for and I was just about ready to make PrestaShop my e-commerce platform of choice. That excitement was short lived.

Posted by P. Berge
This is a brief overview of the basic template structure being used in my Blueprint Zen Cart template.
<body>
  <div class="container">
    <div id="header" class="span-24 prepend-top append-bottom"></div>
    <div id="leftColumn" class="span-5"></div>
    <div id="centerColumn" class="span-19 last"></div>
    <div id="footer" class="span-24 append-bottom prepend-top"></div>
  </div>
</body>


And a visual representation.
Posted by P. Berge

Every time I start a Zen Cart job I have to decide which of the available templates would be best to start with. My template of choice for a while was Simple Zen, but it still required a lot of modifications before it fit all of my needs. I recently discovered Blueprint CSS and thought it would be a great framework for my own barebones zen cart template. What are the advantages of using blueprint?

Posted by P. Berge

Over the last few years I have coded a dozen or so Zen Cart sites. Each site has something new to teach me and I am constantly pushing zen to do things that I once thought were impossible. No matter how varied the design of the site, there are a few addons that I find myself using over and over again.