Zen cart design by Picaflor Azul www.picaflor-azul.com.

Web development by Picaflor Azul Web Design, ecommerce by Zen Cart. The main site for Picaflor Azul Zen Cart Design uses our signature color palette in subtle and earthy blues, greens, and browns. The main background for the site is a very light sky blue. The top site navigation features Picaflor Azul’s custom logo, and links to zen cart design portfolio, testimonials, and contact us. The middle section of the home page is done in a very neat, compact geometric design. The top row has links to zen cart custom design, zen cart templates, and ebay store custom design. The middle row has links to our zen cart portfolio, and our free zen cart templates section. The bottom row has just one link to contact us for a quote on a custom zen cart design. The images all change on hover: ecommerce websites to zen cart, templates to build your brand, ebay stores to the ebay stores logo, free templates to zen cart, view galleries to complete web design services. The footer navigation features links to Zen Cart Design, Design Galleries, Zen Cart Tutorials, and Zen Cart Features. The area below the template contains site copyright info, links to terms of use, policies, and sitemap, with W3C validator links for valid CSS and XHTML, and a custom follow us on twitter logo.

This fully customized Zen Cart site features: customized home page layout with change on hover image links, customized social bookmarking, customized Twitter follow us button, all custom buttons and icons, custom category layout pages, custom product pages, custom gallery/portfolio pages with sub-galleries, customized advance search by color functionality, and customized attribute layout on product pages.

Extra functionality has been added to the standard zen cart site through installation and custom configuration of several modules, custom ajax scripts, and custom javascript: database backup, column layout grid, URI Mapping (SEO), column attribute grid.

Every page on our site is W3C standards compliant CSS and XHTML Strict 1.0 code. Tableless layout principles are used as often as possible with the exclusion of information in tabular data format.

Picaflor Azul specializes in creating beautiful and funtional zen cart designs. Their site www.picaflor-azul.com provides links to the most used zen cart tutorials, has satisfied customer testimonials, and features their zen cart design portfolio. Contact Us for a quote on your custom zen cart design project today!

Twitter design by Picaflor Azul www.picaflor-azul.com.

Twitter is a free micro blogging social media service. You can send “tweets” (short posts) of up to 140 characters or less.

Twitter is an essential marketing tool for any online business. It’s marketing potential is limitless and allows you to create a dialogue with your target market. The micro blogging platform on twitter allows you to post short, concise messages about sales, upcoming events, news, featured items, etc.

One of the great ways to use Twitter is to promote your brand. Twitter allows you to do so by using a custom background anc customizing the colors of the main background, sidebar background, links, and text. Picaflor Azul’s custom Twitter design features a simple brown background with our signature hummingbird and tree branches logo with the url to our site www.picaflor-azul.com under it. The main content area background is white for easy readability and the sidebar is done in our signature light green. Text is done in dark brown with links in a variation of our signature green. When visitors find our Twitter site, they will immediately recognize the Picaflor Azul brand by our logo and custom color palette.

There are three types of messages that you can post on Twitter. The first is an “update”. An update is sent through the main status update box, located below the “What are you doing?” prompt on your Twitter profile page. The second type is a @replies. An @reply is a public Twitter update directed at a certain person. It can be viewed by other Twitter members, even though you did not direct it to them. The third type of mesage you can post on Twitter is a direct message. You can send direct messages to anyone you are following as long as they are following you. These are private messages that will not be viewed by others.

There are a few basic rules of good Twitter etiquette. Number one is don’t bore your followers with all of the mundane happenings in your day. another reallly important rule is not to Tweet your followers to death with the same sale or special.

Picaflor Azul specializes in creating beautiful and funtional zen cart designs. Their site www.picaflor-azul.com provides links to the most used zen cart tutorials, has satisfied customer testimonials, and features their zen cart design portfolio. Contact Us for a quote on your custom zen cart design project today!

Picaflor Azul offers complete zen cart design and development services.

Be sure to check out Picaflor Azul’s blog on Typepad.com. Typepad offers free blogs, business blogs, and pro blogs. Picaflor Azul chose this blogging system is great because it makes blogging easy. Their intuitive interface allows you to add content, pictures and links quickly and easily. At Typepad you can maintain complete control over your own blog. You can customize the design, moderate comments, display ads (or not display ads), and a lot more. Picaflor Azul loves that Typepad makes it easy for readers to find your blog. Every Typepad blog is search engine optimized. You can use Google Sitemaps, a PubSubhubbub hub, search-engine friendly URLs and site structure, and the exclusive Six Apart Atom stream used by Google and other search engines that make your content easier to find. Since Typepad is a paid service, Picaflor Azul can count on never having to deal with spam showing up on your blog. They do have an advertising option, but this can be easily disabled if you do not want ads to apprear on your blog. Typepad regularly commissions talented graphic and web designers to design templates that look sharp, professional, and creative. If you have the know how, like Picaflor Azul, you can even code your own blog template. TypePad is continually adding new features and functionality to help our customers stay a step ahead. Typepad has social networking integration with the popular Facebook web site. Typepad does a lot to keep your Picaflor Azul’s blog content safe. They offer comment moderation, span control, and powerful back-end protection. With Typepad you can grow your blog as big as you like. Even if you have a readership of one million they can accomodate you. Typepad has great customer service. They provide customer support 7 days a week, 365 days a year.

Read Picaflor Azul’s blog for updates on the latest custom zen cart deisgns, newly released free zen cart templates before they are available on the official zen cart site, and for tips and tutorials on making your zen cart store the best that it can be!

Picaflor Azul specializes in creating beautiful and funtional zen cart designs. Their site www.picaflor-azul.com provides links to the most used zen cart tutorials, has satisfied customer testimonials, and features their zen cart design portfolio. Contact Us for a quote on your custom zen cart design project today!

Picaflor Azul offers complete zen cart design and development services.

Read Picaflor Azul’s blog on soulcast to get the free zen cart template A Pink Boutique. A Pink Boutique is Designed for Zen Cart version 1.3.8. by Picaflor Azul Web Design

A Pink Boutique is fun template done in shades of chocolate and pink polka dots and stripes.

Features:

• Fixed width 3 column display
• Matching button set included.
• Matching icons
• Home Page template included
• Tested using Firefox, IE7, IE6.

You can download this free zen cart template from our web site here:

https://www.picaflor-azul.com/free-zen-cart-templates/pink-boutique

or directly from the Zen Cart website here:

https://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?main_page=product_contrib_info&cPath=40_53&products_id=1403

See this template in action on our live demo site here:

https://www.picaflor-azul.com/demo1/

You can also purchase lots of great add ons for the free template from the demo site. Add ons include, template installation ($9.99), made to match items such as customized header ($9.99), banners ($9.99), business card template ($9.99), Twitter background set ($9.99), home page product collage ($19.99), social bookmarking ($9.99), ebay sellers package ($79.99), and module installation (please email us at info@picaflor-azul.com for a quote). If you would like to request a quote for an add on that you don’t see on the demo site, please email us at info@picaflor-azul.com).

Post your questions and comments about this free zen cart template on the official support thread here:

https://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=135826

I would love to see your site once you have the template installed, so drop me a line and send me your link

Read Picaflor Azul’s blog for tons of useful information about zen cart design, auction templates, banners, boutique design, ecommerce, free backgrounds, web design, zen cart, and zen cart design. The posts on the Picaflor Azul blog focus on recently completed zen cart design and other projects. Tutorials about adding product attributes, setting up downloadable products, customizing your zen cart site, installing a new custom template, setting up the override directories, upgrading your zen cart, installing and configuring popular zen cart modules, and much more. Be the first to download free zen cart templates by Picaflor Azul by reading our blog. We will post the free templates here before they are available on the official zen cart site.

Picaflor Azul specializes in creating beautiful and funtional zen cart designs. Their site www.picaflor-azul.com provides links to the most used zen cart tutorials, has satisfied customer testimonials, and features their zen cart design portfolio. Contact Us for a quote on your custom zen cart design project today!

Picaflor Azul offers complete zen cart design and development services.

Zannel allows you to post updates to Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, Flickr, WordPress, Movable type, Blogger, hi5, Livejournal, Friendster, Typepad, Multiply, Orkut, Igoogle, Xanga, and more! Picaflor Azul loves Zannel because it that allows millions of people to see and talk about what’s happening now using pictures and videos and – yes! – even text. Because pictures change the conversation. And best of all you can join Zannel for free.

Picaflor Azul posts updates to Zannel serveral times per week. Our Zannel updates contain informatoin about current and completed zen cart design projects. These updates will usually give you links to our blog posts on the subjects which will contain all of the project and design details as well as the url of the site. Other Picaflor Azul Zannel updates will be just links to sites that are using our free zen cart templates. We like to promote these sites to give everyone an idea of the great looking variety of sites using our free zen cart templates. Using the free zen cart templates as a starting off point, many of these sites add in their own style and elements to come up with something unique and interesting. You will also find links to helpful zen cart tutorial on Picaflor Azul’s Zannel. We post links to the most interesting and useful zen cart help faq’s and tutorials. Read them to learn about easy ways to increase the functionality, usability, and profitability of your zen cart web site. Helpful tutorials include how to’s for attributes, ezpages, permissions, group discounts, meta tags, sideboxes, taxes, installation, and the zen cart admin. Other Picaflor Azul Zannel updates will include links to recently completed projects that can now be found in our zen cart portfolio.

Picaflor Azul specializes in creating beautiful and funtional zen cart designs. Their site www.picaflor-azul.com provides links to the most used zen cart tutorials, has satisfied customer testimonials, and features their zen cart design portfolio. Contact Us for a quote on your custom zen cart design project today!

Picaflor Azul offers complete zen cart design and development services.

Read Picaflor Azul’s blog on wordpress. What is wordpress? WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time. Picaflor Azul loves WordPress because WordPress is an Open Source project, which means there are hundreds of people all over the world working on it. Everything from the documentation to the code itself, was created by and for the community. You are free to use it for anything without paying anyone a license fee. WordPress started as just a blogging systems, but has evolved to be used as full content management system and so much more through the thousands of plugins, widgets, and themes, WordPress is limited only by your imagination and technical ability. WordPress is an elegant, well-architectured personal publishing system built on PHP and MySQL and licensed under the GPL.

When you visit Picaflor Azul’s blog on wordpress you will find categories for free zen cart templates and more, freebies, Picaflor Azul, Portfolio, ebay, ebay design, etsy, etsy design, zen carts, print ready, twitter, twitter design, and zen cart design. The posts on the Picaflor Azul blog focus on recently completed zen cart design and other projects. Read all of the details about the design and development and see a screen shot of the finished site with a link to the live site. Complete details about installation, configuraton and customization are also given about any modules that were installed for extra functionality. Also, read posts about the latest news from Picaflor Azul. And read posts about the most common and useful zen cart tutorials. Tutorials about adding product attributes, setting up downloadable products, customizing your zen cart site, installing a new custom template, setting up the override directories, upgrading your zen cart, installing and configuring popular zen cart modules, and much more. Be the first to download free zen cart templates by Picaflor Azul by reading our blog. We will post the free templates here before they are available on the official zen cart site.

Picaflor Azul specializes in creating beautiful and funtional zen cart designs. Their site www.picaflor-azul.com provides links to the most used zen cart tutorials, has satisfied customer testimonials, and features their zen cart design portfolio. Contact Us for a quote on your custom zen cart design project today!

Get a great free downloadable image from Picaflor Azul

https://picaflor-azul.deviantart.com/art/Old-Paper-143821212

I came across this really cool image of a page in an old book from the Library of Congress and thought that I would share it with everyone. I have named it simply “Old Paper”. I have used it as a background in web design, but the possibilities are endless. It would look wonderful used in any of your altered are, or vintage or retro graphic art design projects. You can use it for personal or commercial use, there are no copyright restrictions. If you make something cool with it though, I would love to see what you have made. Please either leave a commend here on the blog, or drop me an email at info@picaflor-azul.com. If you want to be really nice, you can put a link to my site somewhere on your site:

Picaflor Azul zen cart design services.

While you are deviant art downloading the free image, be sure and take a look around the site. Deviantart is the largest art community in the world. Membership is FREE to share and sell your artwork, start your Art Collection and track your favorite artists! Categories on the site include, digital art, photography, traditional are, films and animation, contests, cartoons and comics, artisan crafts, designs and interfaces, customization, resources and stock images, game development art, literature, magma/anime, fan art, flash, anthro, community projects, deviantart related, and scraps. On deviantart you can: Explore over 100 million original works of art, Exhibit your artwork to an audience of over 12 million members – FOR FREE!, Set up a profile, create galleries, and build a fan base, Communicate, collaborate and learn from artists from over 190 countries, and Make money selling your art in the deviantART Shop. You can also: Browse through thousands of art categories from anime and body art to poetry and impressionist oil painting, Search for works by artists, styles or keywords, Become a trendsetter by creating and starting your own art collections, Improve your craft by reviewing our robust collection of tutorials on everything from introductory Photoshop to advanced 3D modeling.

Picaflor Azul specializes in creating beautiful and funtional zen cart designs. Their site www.picaflor-azul.com provides links to the most used zen cart tutorials, has satisfied customer testimonials, and features their zen cart design portfolio. Contact Us for a quote on your custom zen cart design project today!

Picaflor Azul offers complete zen cart design and development services.

Read Picaflor Azul’s blog post about the custom zen cart design for My Favorite Baby Gifts Boutique. This custom zen cart design features “A Classic Boutique” zen cart template designed by Picaflor Azul. The design is done in classic, subtle shades of silver, white, and grey. The background is light and uses a damask floral motif. The header logo and footer use a classic ribbon pattern. done in grey and black. The design is clean and classic and makes for a site that is easily navigated. The header navigation features the store logo, and links to home, login, log off, my account, shopping cart, and checkout. The left hand navigation features custom sidebox header images for shop, info, and baby articles. The home page has a customized flash doc menu at the top, with home page text below. The rest of the home page has images for each of the site’s categories.

Many Zen Cart modules were installed into the cart by Picaflor Azul for added functionality. These include: Database backup module, Cross Sell module, Image Handler, Zen Light Box, Categories Center Box, Fast and Easy Checkout, Column Layout Grid, Product Filter, Attribute Grid, Module Manager, EZ pages on Sitemap, Improved Site Map Display, Category Descriptions Split, Store Credit, Product Info Display (stacked left), URI Mapping Module (SEO), and Numinix Search.

Other customizations made by Picaflor Azul include: customized logo with store name “Baby Gifts Boutique”, customized footer with site security and payment options, all custom buttons and icons including search button, custom colors on all forms, customized footer copyright message, customized store credit appearance on product pages, customized product layout page (see screenshot), customized sidebox (left navigation) header images, customized flash doc menu for the home page, and customized featured and new products center images.

Amy says, “Lovely! Just lovely! Thanks for all you’ve done “

Picaflor Azul specializes in creating beautiful and funtional zen cart designs. Their site www.picaflor-azul.com provides links to the most used zen cart tutorials, has satisfied customer testimonials, and features their zen cart design portfolio. Contact Us for a quote on your custom zen cart design project today!

Twitter design by Picaflor Azul www.picaflor-azul.com.

Twitter is a free micro blogging social media service. You can send “tweets” (short posts) of up to 140 characters or less.

Twitter is an essential marketing tool for any online business. It’s marketing potential is limitless and allows you to create a dialogue with your target market. The micro blogging platform on twitter allows you to post short, concise messages about sales, upcoming events, news, featured items, etc.

One of the great ways to use Twitter is to promote your brand. Twitter allows you to do so by using a custom background anc customizing the colors of the main background, sidebar background, links, and text. Picaflor Azul’s custom Twitter design features a simple brown background with our signature hummingbird and tree branches logo with the url to our site www.picaflor-azul.com under it. The main content area background is white for easy readability and the sidebar is done in our signature light green. Text is done in dark brown with links in a variation of our signature green. When visitors find our Twitter site, they will immediately recognize the Picaflor Azul brand by our logo and custom color palette.

There are three types of messages that you can post on Twitter. The first is an “update”. An update is sent through the main status update box, located below the “What are you doing?” prompt on your Twitter profile page. The second type is a @replies. An @reply is a public Twitter update directed at a certain person. It can be viewed by other Twitter members, even though you did not direct it to them. The third type of mesage you can post on Twitter is a direct message. You can send direct messages to anyone you are following as long as they are following you. These are private messages that will not be viewed by others.

There are a few basic rules of good Twitter etiquette. Number one is don’t bore your followers with all of the mundane happenings in your day. another reallly important rule is not to Tweet your followers to death with the same sale or special.

Picaflor Azul specializes in creating beautiful and funtional zen cart designs. Their site www.picaflor-azul.com provides links to the most used zen cart tutorials, has satisfied customer testimonials, and features their zen cart design portfolio. Contact Us for a quote on your custom zen cart design project today!

Picaflor Azul offers complete zen cart design and development services.

Read Picaflor Azul’s blog on Vox. Vox, everything that you want in a blog. Vox is a free personal blogging service. Using Vox’s built-in editor, you’ll easily combine words, images, video and audio to create a vibrant blog post. It takes less time to create a beautiful post than it does to send an email. With Vox, you can choose the privacy level for every post, every picture, every sound clip, every video. Vox continually ads new themes with great colors, imagery, and details. Vox is the only service that combines words, images, music, books, audio and video.

When you read Picaflor Azul’s blog you will find tons of useful information about zen cart design, auction templates, banners, boutique design, ecommerce, free backgrounds, web design, zen cart, and zen cart design. The posts on the Picaflor Azul blog focus on recently completed zen cart design and other projects. Read all of the details about the design and development and see a screen shot of the finished site with a link to the live site. Complete details about installation, configuraton and customization are also given about any modules that were installed for extra functionality. Also, read posts about the latest news from Picaflor Azul. And read posts about the most common and useful zen cart tutorials. Tutorials about adding product attributes, setting up downloadable products, customizing your zen cart site, installing a new custom template, setting up the override directories, upgrading your zen cart, installing and configuring popular zen cart modules, and much more. Be the first to download free zen cart templates by Picaflor Azul by reading our blog. We will post the free templates here before they are available on the official zen cart site.

Picaflor Azul specializes in creating beautiful and funtional zen cart designs. Their site www.picaflor-azul.com provides links to the most used zen cart tutorials, has satisfied customer testimonials, and features their zen cart design portfolio. Contact Us for a quote on your custom zen cart design project today!