Creating ZenCart EZ-Pages

ZenCart let you create what are known as "EZ-Pages" via the admin control panel.

For this example, we'll create our own about page.

1. Go to "Tools -> EZ-Pages".

2. For the Text Editor. You have a choice between Plain Text and HTML Area. Select HTML Area for this example.

ZenCart EZ Page Editor

2. Click "New File" button at the bottom of the page.

3. Type in Page Title and add in some content and formatting for that page as shown...

ZenCart EZ-Page editor

You can even add links by ...

ZenCart EZ-Page editor

4. Leave "Internal Link URL" and "External Link URL" blank.

5. Click "Insert" button.

6. An EZ-Page has just been created. Note the ID of this page ...

ZenCart EZ-Page id

7. Because this EZ-Page is accessed by putting that ID in the URL as in ...

http://www.example.com/index.php?main_page=page&id=1

where in this example "1" is the ID of the EZ Page.

And this is what are EZPage looks like in the browser when you point it to the URL for your EZPage ...
ZenCart EZ Page

8. Note that you can also go back to the EZ Page and edit the content. If you are familiar with HTML, you can set the editor to Plain Text in step 2 and put in HTML code...

ZenCart EZ Page

And here is what our EZ-Page looks like when we put the above URL in our browser ...

ZenCart EZ-Page completed

9. Now you can add that mentioned EZPage URL to your menus. In the next tutorial, we'll show you how to add this URL to your main navigation menu.