RedDOTSpecial Posted October 14, 2005 Share Posted October 14, 2005 I recently started this site.I would like to know what you think of it and what things i can do to make it better.Dont worry about hurting my feelings, i can take it. Here it is -->RedDOTSpecial.com RedDOTSpecial its red and its spectacular Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dandelion Posted October 15, 2005 Share Posted October 15, 2005 Looks good - here are a few things that jump out at me: Get rid of the bad oscommerce graphics in the top replace them with either text or images that say My Account | Cart Contents | Checkout I'm in internet Explorer using a screen resolution of 800 x 600 and when I click on your navigation bar the secondary pages are shifted to the right and I have to scroll over>>>>> It looks to me like the top of your logo is missing - isn't the red behind your name suppose to be a dot? There's no top to the circle so it doesn't really look like a dot - more like a price tag. I think you should have some text and products on page one - something to make me interested to click further. Maybe a featured product in a box on the left column if you want to keep the photo as is. I would make your left column wider so the category names aren't split on two lines The quick find box is too much - there are simpler searches Why us? Shouldn't you put a question mark there? I think you still have some work to do on the subcategory pages - need images. It's good to see something different - good work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
♥peterpil19 Posted October 15, 2005 Share Posted October 15, 2005 Hi, something I regard as quite urgent is the huge size of your pictures. The main picture on the main page is around 190kb in size. This picture would take for dialup user at the very least 34 seconds to load up and as it is a gif animation it will probably take longer. I can't vouch for any other images on your site because there aren't any product images as far as I can see. Installing an autothumbnailer contribution like "On the fly autothumbnailer with GD Library" will solve this problem for most of your images. Be aware though that if this isn't addressed you will lose many customers. Your site is eating up a lot of bandwith and I am struggling even on my 1.5Mps cable connection. Kind Regards, Peter CE PHOENIX SUPPORTER Support the Project, go PRO and get access to certified add ons Full-time I am a C-suite executive of a large retail company in Australia. In my spare time, I enjoying learning about web-design. Download the latest version of CE Phoenix from gitHub here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
241 Posted October 15, 2005 Share Posted October 15, 2005 I don't see anything different here, the site is all over the place in firefox and needs a good bit of attention to alignment, images are too big for some items and too small for others which makes the page messy, it would be better to have a more uniform feel to the images. the information pages text needs a container to wrap itself in instead of having all the text on onw line which has to be scrolled many times. There is more but I do not have the time just now to list. No longer giving free advice. Please place deposit in meter slot provided. Individual: [=] SME: [==] Corporation: [===] If deposit does not fit one of the slots provided then you are asking too much! Is your Osc dated try Phoenix raising oscommerce from the ashes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedDOTSpecial Posted October 15, 2005 Author Share Posted October 15, 2005 I would like to thank 241, peterpil19, dandelion for you comments on my site I appreciate the feed back greatly. I will address these issues as soon as possible. One thing peterpil19 how can I cut down one the load time for the site and a the same time keep the overall look If anyone has more comments about the site and how to improve it please tell me Thank you again, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbcnz Posted October 16, 2005 Share Posted October 16, 2005 Hi, I've Just gone to your site and get the following error: Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in D:\hshome\oman500\reddotspecial.com\includes\functions\database.php on line 44 Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in D:\hshome\oman500\reddotspecial.com\includes\functions\sessions.php on line 37 Warning: Unknown(): A session is active. You cannot change the session module's ini settings at this time. in Unknown on line 0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedDOTSpecial Posted October 17, 2005 Author Share Posted October 17, 2005 See, that’s just the thing, im working on making the site more user friendly and faster but it seems not to work. The site is to slow and while im trying to make it faster, I really don’t know how or what to do. If anyone can help me, I would appreciate it. Thanks, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbcnz Posted October 19, 2005 Share Posted October 19, 2005 Hi, It would appear you have hosted on your own desktop. I would sujest you pay for hosting from a reliable provider on a high speed linux server :) Best Regards Nicholas Wood Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mediajuggle Posted October 19, 2005 Share Posted October 19, 2005 I visited your site on a Mac using Safari All the pages (as far as Safari goes) are over to the far right and when I scroll right to view the rest of the site.. it looks like this: My Contribution Music Download Store Template http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,4275 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedDOTSpecial Posted October 21, 2005 Author Share Posted October 21, 2005 Thank you Mediajuggle for pointing that out to me. I honestly didnt know my site was doing that.I have fixed the problem though and would like to thank you for taking the time out to look at my site and telling me there was a problem. Sincerely, its red and its spectatular Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dynamoeffects Posted October 21, 2005 Share Posted October 21, 2005 The product_info.php page looks like the screenshots Mediajuggle posted, except I'm using W2k and Firefox. Please use the forums for support! I am happy to help you here, but I am unable to offer free technical support over instant messenger or e-mail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedDOTSpecial Posted October 22, 2005 Author Share Posted October 22, 2005 Thanks dynamoeffects for pointing that out to me. I have fixed the problem and now the page is looking better. If there are any more comments i would love to hear them, please keep them coming. Thanks again, its red and its spectacular Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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