Can somebody test please ?

[Tomcat]

Hi all,

 

After months of local testing I uploaded to my server and would like some general feedback.

 

Users from the States ( browser set to en-us ) please report whether you get the currency set to USD once on the /index.php page. For some reasons I was unable to test myself...

 

Sorry for table borders etc... they are so useful when testing

 

I'm also interested on how the pics display on various monitors / video cards

 

Any feedback really appreciated

 

website is: www.18carati.com

 

Thanks

Franco

[Guest]

The site looks pretty good. I like the boxes.

There still are things to be done though, like the text "Your IP address is&nbsp:&nbsp217.xxx.xxx.101" near the bottom.

 

I?d loose the :  in that line.

Keep up the good work. :)

 

/ Zipper

[beltaine]

Looking at it from a design standpoint...

 

I found myself clicking on the small down-pointing arrows you have in your infobox headers.

 

:) And I was dissapointed that nothing happened... will something happen?

If not, it's my POV that they are misleading as a GUI element.

 

:) cheers.. I do love the menu work in the Caregories box.. A LOT.

Did you code that yourself, or is it available for implementation from some source?

[Tomcat]

Beltaine,

 

Yes, the small arrows are clickable and they always worked for me ( both locally and not ).

 

The menu in category box is a contribution called cool menu.

 

 

Zipper,

 

Thanks for your advice

 

What about the default currency when accessing with en-us set browser ? Is it USD or GBP ?

 

Any more comments ?

 

Thanks

Franco

[Guest]

With Netscape7 this is what we see in your footer

Your IP address is&nbsp:&nbsp69.70.29.206   

 

Your default currency is GPB

 

The_Bear

[Tomcat]

Bear,

 

Thanks I will get rid of the spaces in footer bar.

 

For what concerns the currency, as I want US users to enter the site with USD as default, this is what I did:

 

I copied all files from language/english and renamed them all as language/american. Obviously I did change the local settings in american.php to

 

define('LANGUAGE_CURRENCY', 'USD');

and

define('HTML_PARAMS','dir="LTR" lang="us"');

 

What I'm not too sure about is the file includes/classe/language.php when it says

$this->languages = array('ar' => 'ar([-_][[:alpha:]]{2})?|arabic',
                              'bg' => 'bg|bulgarian',
                              'br' => 'pt[-_]br|brazilian portuguese',
                              'ca' => 'ca|catalan',
                              'cs' => 'cs|czech',
                              'da' => 'da|danish',
                              'de' => 'de([-_][[:alpha:]]{2})?|german',
                              'el' => 'el|greek',
                              'en' => 'en([-_][[:alpha:]]{2})?|english',
         'en-us' => 'us|([-_][[:alpha:]]{2})?|english',
                              'es' => 'es([-_][[:alpha:]]{2})?|spanish',
                              'et' => 'et|estonian',
                              'fi' => 'fi|finnish',
                              'fr' => 'fr([-_][[:alpha:]]{2})?|french',
                              'gl' => 'gl|galician',
                              'he' => 'he|hebrew',
                              'hu' => 'hu|hungarian',
                              'id' => 'id|indonesian',
                              'it' => 'it|italian',
                              'ja' => 'ja|japanese',
                              'ko' => 'ko|korean',
                              'ka' => 'ka|georgian',
                              'lt' => 'lt|lithuanian',
                              'lv' => 'lv|latvian',
                              'nl' => 'nl([-_][[:alpha:]]{2})?|dutch',
                              'no' => 'no|norwegian',
                              'pl' => 'pl|polish',
                              'pt' => 'pt([-_][[:alpha:]]{2})?|portuguese',
                              'ro' => 'ro|romanian',
                              'ru' => 'ru|russian',
                              'sk' => 'sk|slovak',
                              'sr' => 'sr|serbian',
                              'sv' => 'sv|swedish',
                              'th' => 'th|thai',
                              'tr' => 'tr|turkish',
                              'uk' => 'uk|ukrainian',
                              'tw' => 'zh[-_]tw|chinese traditional',
                              'zh' => 'zh|chinese simplified');

It seems there is no distinction betwee en-us and en-gb in the unmodified version of file ( I added the line "en-us" )

 

Any ideas ?

Thanks

[iainshaw]

Hi

 

the small doward pointing arrows in the right hand corner of all the infoboxes don't do anything. The standard osC arrows do. I agree that this is an odd GUI item. what are they meant to do?

 

like the categories implementation

[Tomcat]

iainshaw

 

I see what you mean... those arrows are just part of the button layout, nothing more than that.

 

I've tested with Mozilla and noticed a spread of  's all over ...... s**t. I'll have a good time removing them.

 

 

Franco

[Guest]

I really like your shop. I just started my own jewelry site but it doesn't look good. It's pretty much standard os look. Yours is very cool. I love it.

 

Good luck

[obiclock]

design point,

 

i don't know if it matters, by looking at your site

it looks bit busy because of different design of nav bar, infobox, new product box header, and the one on date

perhaps unite them into one?

[radders]

I feel rather rude saying this after all the nice comments above. I only took a quick look but I found it rather brash and quicked away quickly. I don't know if that look was intentional but if I were looking to spend that sort of money I would go with one of the really quality osC jewellery sites I have seen reviewed in the 'my store' forum.

[Tomcat]

Radders,

 

Thank you for your opinion.... unfortunately not being english mother tongue I don't get the meaning of "brash" and "quicked away"... I guess they mean something like rough or not well done from a design point of view

can you explain better what did you mean ?

 

The site is still in test though; from now on there will be hired designers to cure the overall look of the shop.

 

From a market point of view...well when it comes to buying jewellery the final price should be as important as the look of the site ( if not more... ).

It's in BIG spendings that you might have BIG savings

 

Would you be happier to buy some crap stuff at double the amount I'm actually selling good quality hand made jewels ?

 

Thanks again

 

Franco