Well, books as a hobby were always a noble, pleasent and very useful kind of activity. It gives knowledge, excerpts on the process of development of your personality. For a long period of time books were very rare and because of such confines only some “esoteric” people could use them. And you know what? Books always have some notes of mysticism. Just remember that special atmosphere of solitude in the library or in the old book-store, it seemed that imponderable scent of rational identity is in the air… The unique smell of old and new pages, soft cover and so on… Yeah, they are worth our admiring…
But those times are almost gone and we live in 21 century and the most revolutaionary thing that had happened is that books lost their natural view. Books became more avaliable. On-line book stores can offer you a great assortment. But nowadays, assortment of store is not so important for the customers. Appearence or design plays main role in choosing your on-line book store. So, here are some examples of book stores powered by Zen Cart.
“Gypsy” style really impressed me, especially those background patterns. This Zen Cart Template has very unique design and I must notice that customizing is pretty nice. This color scheme and special types of fonts of “gypsy” store give real feeling of mysticism. Everything is natural and mathes the main theme. Designed by zen4me.com
What we have with the next on-line book store is a modern and functional zen cart skin. You know, I like such a simple style, it has some special magnetism. Most pleaseant visual thing of “Maniac” store as for me is this red stripe on the header. Designed by zen4me.com
I think that the main trump of next zen cart theme is background photo on the top of the page. It is really amazing and fascinating. Whole page of this store is filled up with different images, and it gives a feeling of saturation.
There is nothing more charming than the kids’ smiles on the Holiday Season. And this zen cart template brings us the holiday mood with its impressive style. Everything is natural here, the style is original and yet unusual. I liked the StoneGarden store very much.
Next one is a good example of a simple taste. I think, that Ann Arbor publishers has great number of devoted customers because of its style. Everything is strict, logical in this zen cart skin. Modified by thedesigndesk.co.uk
You know, that good old-fashioned style is pretty succesful sometimes. Those photo of a bookshelf reminds me my grandfather`s home library. It is very touching. I think its zen cart theme is really cool. And those guys from TBM books are very succesful because of such design.
Once more we have smiling kids`faces on the home page of this store which proves that real emotions never loose their charisma and attraction. Thus this zen cart template hasn’t any great customiziation features, it has several bright elements such as nice colors and simple fonts. It proves that details are very important in design.
In this case I want you to check out the colors. I would call this a color harmony because at this zen cart template we have different nuances. Nevertheless it doesn’t influence the general effect. And I like those graphic elements in the top left corner of the slavchess page.
This customized zen cart theme is pretty interesting for me because next book store has some specialties. It is has different color scheme and I like those elements with shady effect. People often like bright colors, they give a positive psychological effect.
Design of this zen cart on-line store is very dynamic and even wild. It has some contrast colors, but they stress the visual effect of speed and power. I like the photo of these streamlined choppers most of all. I would call it very unusual and unique style.
Next zen cart skin is so bookish, and I think that the main reason for it is the woman’s image. It seems to me that this stylish image is connected with the epoch of romanticism in France. I would call this very traditional but it doesnt mean that design of bbi media is bad. We should never forget our past.
This zen cart theme is developed in a strongly marked style. Its color scheme is simple, and all the images are natural. MyLibros.com is a good example of a nice taste.
What I should say about this zen cart template is that it is rather unusual because of such a deep purple color on the background. I think that the main theme of the store’s product explains such special style-they sell some detective stories. Besides that some blurry elements gave feeling of mystycs.
Oh, I liked this zen cart skin very much because of its illustrations. You see, this on-line book store specializes on some historical books. And what do we have? Background performed in some patriotic style, it has images of “stars and the stripes” and so on.
It is a classic one. It remids me some british style with their monarchy, all those titles and traditional nature. This zen cart theme shows some prosperity, dignity and real power of knowledge. I have a feeling that at this book store you can buy only some classic books of world famous authors.
You know, this boy is like from some fairy tale book, and all these clouds and skyscrapers
behind him, they are like an illustrtaion for Scandinavian child book. This zen cart theme raises very interesting memoirs. I think that Alma Books is well designed.
Here is a good example of simple design. I should call this a nice merchant zen cart skin. It has no specialties.Nevertheless i think that design of Wellred bookshop isn’t boring.
This zen cart template impressed me with two things. First of them is the style of the header. The second one is about those two unusual symbols of the process of writing books. It is a pen with some bubbles and printing machine. It is very symbolic. And the last very interesting thing about this shop is its unusual name – the Shaman Drum.
I must mark out such a corpulent design of next zen cart template. It has all features of successful appearence – original fonts, perfect color scheme and unique background. Aubergine is very nice example of professional design.
And once more we see some classic design theme of next zen cart skin. Park Row Books is all about the romantic and unusual activity of writing. All those ink pen, globe and papers are perfect images of the creativity sphere.
Welll, there is nothing more to say than that it is pink, touching and romantic. You can find everything about the relationships at this zen cart template. It is Coffe Time Romance.
So, Bridge Books is also very thematic because here you can find books about nature. I guess thats why the color of the templates is green – suits this particular design perfectly.Landscape pictures make a good impression for visitors and the images are also thematic. So, we have another well-designed zen cart skin.
I like next zen cart template, it has some unique design details. A background color reminds the color of old book pages and the fonts are really perfect for old style. And blur details of the Tidelines books header impressed me much.
Maybe, Torquere Books design theme has got no book-writing-related elements but it is still very bright and vivid. Special detail is a cherry in the top right corner. I would say that the style of this zen cart template is very modern.
