FINISHED and ready for business

[xander]

Hi everyone, seems I forgot that there was a admin area, it was rough putting up half the page with no knowlegde of html, but all is good I think?

 

tell me what you think.. theres still a couple places I need to clean up like the footer copyright... suggestions?

 

XANDER ANCIENT TREASURES

[Guest]

As I told in some one else's topic...

 

1. Why need a language and a currencies box when you have one of each only?

 

2."What's New Here?

Welcome Guest! Would you like to log yourself in? Or would you prefer to create an account? " - maybe some ideas come to your mind...many oscomm stores tend to keep that. Why be the same with somebody else?

 

3. "Join our newsletter and get special discount prices!

Just check newsletter when you register" I'm sure there is a contrib that lets you display a "join newsletter" and "Unsubscribe" - this way you don't confuse your clients.

 

4.Maybe change the standard oscomm buttons...they don't really fit your site.

 

5. You could make your Contact Us page Dynamic if you want customers to have more info on how they can contact you.

 

6.I Like the idea of your design, though you could work on it some more.

 

7. Maybe think about center Shop Contrib?

 

8. "Top" - Home is a lot better I think.

 

9. You could change some default images, like box_write_review.gif to suit your theme. Maybe an image of some roman writing tools?

 

Hope i've helped a bit. And good luck with your shop!

[♥peterpil19]

Hi Xander, great to see another Ancient Coin Collector!!!

 

I like your Corinthian? Columns above the checkout/basket links in the breadcrumb navigator.

 

Your colour scheme is nicely picked!

 

One Major thing that is instantly visible though, is that your pictures are squashed....

 

--Don't worry! It's easily fixed!!! Go to your admin, go to the "configuration" menu, choose "images" from the left column. Now you will be able to influence most image sizes. For your images to maintain the right aspect ratio, ONLY choose one dimension and leave the other one blank (DELETE any figures, do not even leave a zero). For example, choose a width of 100. This means that all the images that come under that image setting, will have a maximum width of 100, but their height will vary to maintain the correct aspect ratio. Conversely, you can select a height of eg 100, and leave the width blank.

 

Hope these instructions make sense to you, sorry if they don't it's late at night. PM me if don't understand.

 

Good Luck with your website. As you become more exposed to osCommerce, you will pick up HTML skills along the way.

 

Kind Regards,

 

Peter

 

P.S. I'm always on the lookout for VF + sestertii, so if you happen to ever have any for sale, drop me an email. If you look at my website, you'll see I'm obsessed with them;)

[xander]

Thanks people, I got the bulkof the suggestions done

[Guest]

Ave Caesar imperator, morituri te salutant!!! - Love it! :)

[xander]

removed language and currency box finally, fixed copyright addded super tracker, but stil cant find a good newsletter for the front page I think its ready to go!..

[Flyer5]

removed language and currency box finally, fixed copyright addded super tracker, but stil cant find a good newsletter for the front page I think its ready to go!..

 

 

I added one at this site do you like that one?

[♥peterpil19]

Hey Flyer5! Are you referring to the Newsletter "Sign-up" box? I think that's a top idea! Is it a publically available contribution because I couldn't find it...

 

--Peter

[Flyer5]

Hey Flyer5! Are you referring to the Newsletter "Sign-up" box? I think that's a top idea! Is it a publically available contribution because I couldn't find it...

 

--Peter

 

 

Hi

 

no it was just a mail list added to a osc box. if you want it let me know and Ill dig it ut and send you that and the osc box.

note - it has its own admin side and is not integrated as you would expect in oscommerce.! It has its own html editor and manages the list completely seperate from the oscommerce mail list. This was a requirement of the client, non registered customers get different offers!

 

 

 

F5

[xander]

I added one at this site do you like that one?

 

 

That's exactly what I was looking for! and I love the scroll too! how can I find it?

[Flyer5]

Here you go -

 

get the script from This Website

 

Next, use the below code to create a new box and put it with the others in catalog/includes/boxes

 

Call it using an include('BoxName'); statement.

 

the code

----------

 

 

<?php

/*

newsletter using Email List Lite, this filedate 2005/10/09 16:10:26

 

*/

?>

<!-- mailinglist //-->

<tr>

<td>

<table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">

<tr>

<td height="14" class="infoBoxHeading"><img src="../catalog/images/infobox/corner_right_left.gif" width="11" height="14" border="0" alt=" "></td>

<td width="100%" height="14" class="infoBoxHeading">Join Mailing List</td>

<td height="14" class="infoBoxHeading" nowrap><img src="../catalog/images/pixel_trans.gif" width="11" height="14" border="0" alt=" "></td>

</tr>

</table>

<table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="1" class="infoBox">

<tr>

<td><table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3" class="infoBoxContents">

<tr>

<td><img src="../catalog/images/pixel_trans.gif" width="100%" height="1" border="0" alt=" "></td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td class="boxText"><script LANGUAGE="JavaScript" SRC="http://YourDomain.com/email_list_lite/email_list_style_2.js"></script></td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td><img src="../catalog/images/pixel_trans.gif" width="100%" height="1" border="0" alt=" "></td>

</tr>

</table>

</td>

</tr>

</table>

</td>

</tr>

<!-- mailinglist_eof //-->

[♥peterpil19]

Thanks for that! I'm surprised that osCommerce doesn't already come with such a feature...

 

--Peter