Another submission for review

[julianpuje]

Been tweaking and changing my site for a long time now and seem to be finally getting somewhere. Please take a look and let me have your comments. Obviously good and bad.

Any feedback appreciated. :thumbsup:

 

TIA

 

Julian

 

http://www.leisurezone.co.uk

[FalseDawn]

I like the header - nice and colorful!

I think your images are missing "title" tags though - I get a blank yellow box when I hover my mouse over them.

Your main title "The Games and Leisure Supermarket" would be more SE effective as text rather than an image.

There is whitespace at the bottom of the store (on 1024*768)

 

Also, horizontal scrolling is required at 800*600 - maybe set width to 770px?

 

I'm not very keen on the way you have the category listing working, with clicking on the image giving an image popup, and the text link taking you to the product description page - I don't think this is very intuitive and it took me a while to figure out. Personally, I would make both links go to the product description page.

 

Why have a drop down for just one country in your account page?

Order of address fields incorrect - city, county, postcode.

 

You don't really need the "number of requests" in your footer, even if it is a ridiculously high number.

 

The "quick find" magnifying glass icon still has the white halo around it.

Date from/to To in advanced search? Useless, really!

 

Implement a custom 404page - I'm amazed by the number of people who omit this, and it really makes a site seem more professional.

 

Scrolling bestsellers cheapens the look - I'd remove it, but your choice.

Same goes for flashing images on home page - just annoying IMO.

 

Good product images

 

 

This Weeks Special Offers should be: This Week's Special Offers.

Why isn't this a link? - others with the same style on the page are? Be consistent.

[FalseDawn]

And a couple more:

I can enter quantities like "9999999999999999999999999999999999" and the display then gets screwed up because of this figure in the shopping cart box.

Your "password forgotten" page is messy with blue bars everywhere.

 

When my cart is empty, you have a box within a box for "continue" which looks bad.

 

Please log-in here, using your previous orders details.

 

Should either be:

Please log-in here, using your previous order details.

or

Please log-in here, using your previous order's details.

[♥toyicebear]

Nice and colorful site overall.....

 

 

Not so nice....

 

- Flashing gifs...

- Pop-up picture in category/products listing

- Scrolling Bestsellers

[FalseDawn]

A nice touch if you use pop-ups is to add:

onBlur="self.close();"

 

In the body tag - this will automatically close the pop-up when it loses focus.

[julianpuje]

Thanks for the feedback Falsedawn & toyicebear :thumbsup:

A couple of questions though:

 

1, Why have a drop down for just one country in your account page?

I don't know how to get rid of the dropdown and just have UK. any ideas?

 

2, The images in the middle are in "mainpage" contribution, how do i add title tags to them?

 

3, You don't really need the "number of requests" in your footer, even if it is a ridiculously high number.

This number is real, and most of it is probably me as i never seem to be off it. :'(

 

4, Implement a custom 404page - I'm amazed by the number of people who omit this, and it really makes a site seem more professional.

How do i do this? what does it do?

 

5, Your "password forgotten" page is messy with blue bars everywhere.

I missed this one, thanks.

 

Julian

[FalseDawn]

If I type in my address bar:

http://www.leisurezone.co.uk/blahblahblah

I get a standard (and not very nice) "This page cannot be found" screen.

If any of your links ever change in the future, and someone visits your store from a SE and gets this - you can kiss this customer goodbye.

 

If you have access to .htaccess, just add:

ErrorDocument 404 http://www.leisurezone.co.uk/404page.php

 

to it in your root folder, and create a new page (404page.php in this case, but you can call it what you like) - apologizing for the problem and giving the user a reason a stay on your site.

 

Title tags: the other images have title tags - look at the code and see what you are missing.

country drop-down - make it a text box - you will need to fiddle the code a little, but it shouldn't be too hard.

[julianpuje]

If I type in my address bar:

http://www.leisurezone.co.uk/blahblahblah

I get a standard (and not very nice) "This page cannot be found" screen.

If any of your links ever change in the future, and someone visits your store from a SE and gets this - you can kiss this customer goodbye.

 

If you have access to .htaccess, just add:

ErrorDocument 404 http://www.leisurezone.co.uk/404page.php

 

to it in your root folder, and create a new page (404page.php in this case, but you can call it what you like) - apologizing for the problem and giving the user a reason a stay on your site.

 

Title tags: the other images have title tags - look at the code and see what you are missing.

country drop-down - make it a text box - you will need to fiddle the code a little, but it shouldn't be too hard.

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Thanks again for the replies, i think i've sorted out most of the problems encountered. Just need to have a look at the 404 bit.

 

Julian :thumbsup:

 

More comments appreciated. Thanks

[Mighty Mike]

Thanks for the feedback Falsedawn & toyicebear :thumbsup:

A couple of questions though:

 

1, Why have a drop down for just one country in your account page?

I don't know how to get rid of the dropdown and just have UK. any ideas?

 

4, Implement a custom 404page - I'm amazed by the number of people who omit this, and it really makes a site seem more professional.

How do i do this? what does it do?

 

Julian

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Julian,

 

1, If you check the county selector thread, stevel explains how to make it a text only field, i have it on my site. Or even browse my posts and it will be there.

 

4, There is a contribution for custom error pages, which is very good because it wraps your store around the error page :thumbsup:

 

good luck

 

Mike

[julianpuje]

Thanks Mike. :thumbsup:

I've just installed the http error v1.3 contribution but it does nothing. I've checked through the installation again and it appears to be correct. I can only assume the .htaccess part is wrong. :'(

Any ideas anyone?

[Mighty Mike]

Thanks Mike. :thumbsup:

I've just installed the http error v1.3 contribution but it does nothing. I've checked through the installation again and it appears to be correct. I can only assume the .htaccess part is wrong.  :'(

Any ideas anyone?

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

 

Hi Julian

 

is this the contrib you installed HTTP Error Page ? if so, i did not have any problems with it and it worked 1st time. Only thing i can suggest is check the installation again.

 

cheers

 

Mike

[julianpuje]

Hi Julian

 

is this the contrib you installed HTTP Error Page ? if so, i did not have any problems with it and it worked 1st time. Only thing i can suggest is check the installation again.

 

cheers

 

Mike

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Thanks again Mike. I have now managed to get it to work. In the .htaccess file i had to put the full web address instead of the file directory. ie the instructions said catalog/http_error.php. I ended up with www.myaddress/http_error.php and it now works fine (i think!)

 

Cheers :thumbsup: