From our friends over at http://www.starfishwebconsulting.co.uk here are 32 nice and glossy e commerce icons for you to use in your CS-Cart store.

Free Glossy Icons

You can download the set here.

This addon is for an accordion type menu (http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamici…nu-bullet.htm). Instructions are included in the zip file, remember to use FireFox to download as IE corrupts zips.

This was more a test to see what could be done as an addon without touching the core files at all.

It will only go to two category levels, that’s all i needed it to do. Some screeshots are included. Some settings can be changed in admin. Readme file is included.

It has been tested on v2.0.3, v2.0.4 and v2.0.3 to v2.0.4 upgrade.

I’ll try and get a demo up and running.

This addon creates a database table to store settings, make sure you backup backup backup. Test on non live site first. I will not be held responsible for damaged sites.

Work by: baballuci

Download: accordion_menu

Version 2.0.4, May 25 2009

Database restore: ability to restore several dumps at once is added.
Copyright notice updated in all scripts.
admin.php script name was hardcoded in menu.xml. Replaced with placeholder.
Number of news to display in plain list can be defined now.
Payment methods: if realtime processor is selected, selectbox with templates is disabled now.
Pay and Read payment processor: allowed IP list was extended.
Ability to set limit of objects in block is added to testimonials and recently viewed products.
If inventory tracking is disabled, the “in stock” field does not display now in customer area now.
The markup and styles were corrected to display different variants of layout properly.
The displaying of the Orders statistics box on the Dashboard was corrected.

[!] Calendar: years list filled incorrectly if year out of the range was entered. Fixed.
[!] Incorrect permission names used for CMS pages. Fixed.
[!] Block manager: if block had no picker, smarty warning displayed on object page. Fixed.
[!] Shipping cost was calculated on checkout page even if no address was entered (default was used). Fixed.
[!] The “Show product prices with taxes” option did not work for product details page if product had options. Fixed.
[!] Image previewer: alt texts were not passed to images. Fixed.
[!] Block manager: sorting by rating did not work for pages. Fixed.
[!] Suppliers addon: shipping rates were not displayed in the estimate shipping box.
[!] Form builder addon: date field displayed incorrectly. Fixed.
[!] Product filters: URLs formed incorrectly for filters under categories. Fixed.
[!] Top menu: first level elements did not drop to the left from the Drop down menu. Fixed.
[!] News and emails addon: localizations were reset when saving news on manage page. Fixed.
[!] The “In stock” field displayed if inventory tracking was disabled for a certain product. Fixed.
[!] Hidden subpages were displayed on CMS page. Fixed.
[!] File uploader: URL validated incorrectly. Fixed.
[!] Search parameters were not saved in product search form in customer area. Fixed.
[!] Real store URL defined incorrectly on windows hostings. Fixed.
[!] Product configurator addon: configurator tab displayed incorrectly on product update page. Fixed.
[!] Installer: cache was not cleaned up when reinstalling skins. Fixed.
[!] SQL error appeared when overriding main category for the product and this category was added to secondary categories. Fixed.
[!] Language selector was not displayed on the “Edit page” page. Fixed.
[!] SEO addon: seo names were reset when saving categories. Fixed.
[!] Products multiple update: SEO name field was not displayed. Fixed.
[!] HTML tags were removed when updating products using multiple update page. Fixed.
[!] Product filters: incorrect URL was generated when accessing closed store. Fixed.
[!] News addon: the “Cancel” link did not work on the news details page. Fixed.
[!] Addons: incorrect field type was used for states list. Fixed.
[!] Wish list addon: options images were not displayed. Fixed.
[!] Language selector was displayed incorrectly in Opera browser. Fixed.
[!] Upgrade center: incorrect redirect was performed after reverting upgrade. Fixed.
[!] Several popups did not work in IE. Fixed.

A simple addition to the standard cs-cart .htaccess file, posted below, will help with your SEO.  It allows all http://domain.com redirects to http://www.domain.com , assuming your store in installed at the root level of your domain.

Significantly more traffic in SERP (search engine result pages) with adding the code below.  Place the code BEFORE the cs-cart generated .htaccess coding

DirectoryIndex index.html index.php
Options -Indexes

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^(www\.|$) [NC]
RewriteRule ^ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]