With cell phones taking off in popularity, Zen Cart store owners need a way to make their stores accessible to customers using a cell phone or other mobile device. Today I released a free module that gives you a simple mobile home page. From the Branning Group site:
Zen Cart Mobile: This module allows you to have a mobile-friendly home page that is 100% compatible with all cell phones made since 2005. Your new mobile home page is easily modified using the Define Pages Editor and takes less than two minutes to install. Now all users accessing your web site from a mobile phone will see a mobile-compatible web page. This page is easily editable using the Define Pages editor, and may save you a customer. Most web sites are not mobile-friendly, this module redirects your visitors to a page they can easily read from a mobile device.
You could put a phone number on the mobile page to allow the visitor a quick way to get in touch with you, or a simple email form, or extend your mobile site by adding a mobile-friendly search, etc.
The point of the module is that now visitors using a cell phone (or other mobile device) will see a page customized to them and not have to suffer through trying to see your store home page on their tiny screens. PDF | Download
Please let me know if you have tried this new module, I want to hear your thoughts.
#1 by Shakur Ali at May 1st, 2009
I’ve installed this module.
My questions is what Zen Cart features can I bring to the mobile using? Can users check order status? Can i provide sign in ability?
Basically how can I easy extend Zen Cart capability to the mobile unit?
Thanks
#2 by alexbranning at May 1st, 2009
Shakur; the module can be extended to include any number of capabilities that exist in the ‘full’ Zen Cart system. It’s time consuming for me to port all of Zen’s capabilities over to the mobile version since I have to copy over all the code and then modify the way the code it outputted to be mobile-compatible.
I’m working on building the Zen platform out to be something great; I’ll keep you updated with what I get done.
#3 by Shakur Ali at May 1st, 2009
Thanks for the response Alex. It sounds like you have your hand full with this one, but I think it’s great your working on this.
I wish I could be of some help, but it’s been a long time since I trudged through code. Perhaps I can help by testing.
Good luck with the project.