OsCommerce or Zen-Cart and other questions
I want to get into e-commerce. I plan on purchasing either an OsCommerce or a Zen-Cart template and using one of these services but I don't know which one to choose.
My number one priority is ease of use since I have zero background in any of this. The next best thing would be whichever service comes with the most easy-to-understand for a novice instruction manual, written in English, not computer-ese. I am willing to learn, as long as the instruction is not way over my head and written for folks with website development degrees.
One more question I have is what this means (it is required for use of the template): Hosting with PHP4x and MySQL4x; Apache only (on Unix/Freebsd/Linux/Windows); runs on most server specific configurations ranging from dedicated servers to shared servers that utilize different PHP configurations such as register_globals (should be ON) and safe_mode restrictions I have no clue what they're talking about and I hope someone can translate that to English please. The hosting has nothing to do with my PC, right - it means an online service I choose to host the site? What is MySQL4x and what is Apache? And what about server? Is that something on my end or my hosting service's end?
Thanks a lot for the help!
does easy need to mean less features?
zen is based on oscommerce....so oscommerce might be easier because there are less features and less to learn, but then you also have less features.
Zen just came our with a new manual to help users learn about all of the features.
http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?main_page=page&id=16
If you want to buy a template templatemonster.com and algozone.com are great places to try. we have see many memebers use their template services.