borghe Posted September 21, 2006 Posted September 21, 2006 http://www.badgercomics.com I have poured my soul into this site. With that being said, be as brutal as you need to be. I am pretty much still always working on it, so changes and updates are in the cards regardless. comment away.
♥toyicebear Posted September 21, 2006 Posted September 21, 2006 site basically ok...but a fixed wide header and a dynamic width body does not work... eighter make the whole site fixed width or make the whole site width dynamic/full width. Basics for osC 2.2 Design - Basics for Design V2.3+ - Seo & Sef Url's - Meta Tags for Your osC Shop - Steps to prevent Fraud... - MS3 and Team News... - SEO, Meta Tags, SEF Urls and osCommerce - Commercial Support Inquiries - OSC 2.3+ How To To see what more i can do for you check out my profile [click here]
H4eafy Posted September 21, 2006 Posted September 21, 2006 site basically ok...but a fixed wide header and a dynamic width body does not work... eighter make the whole site fixed width or make the whole site width dynamic/full width. I buy all my comics from forbidden planet in the UK. Very good website. Yours is much better than theirs. Accept for the products. I dont know if you are just not finished yet but there are no amazing spider mans? http://www.badgercomics.com/index.php/cPath/21_25_70 Search engine friendly urls would be good too. mikestackleshop - Loads of Fishing Gear
borghe Posted September 21, 2006 Author Posted September 21, 2006 site basically ok...but a fixed wide header and a dynamic width body does not work... eighter make the whole site fixed width or make the whole site width dynamic/full width. what about it doesn't work? mechanical or aesthetic? I buy all my comics from forbidden planet in the UK. Very good website. Yours is much better than theirs. Accept for the products. I dont know if you are just not finished yet but there are no amazing spider mans? http://www.badgercomics.com/index.php/cPath/21_25_70 Search engine friendly urls would be good too. yeah, there are a few dummy categories left over from testing that will be filled in the next few weeks. I should probably delete them and just recreate them when the books come in. the URLs already are strictly SEO friendly (no obvious querystrings. everything is PATH_INFO'ed). you mean even friendlier with the item name in the url etc?
♥toyicebear Posted September 21, 2006 Posted September 21, 2006 what about it doesn't work? mechanical or aesthetic? Both..it makes your site look un-professional Basics for osC 2.2 Design - Basics for Design V2.3+ - Seo & Sef Url's - Meta Tags for Your osC Shop - Steps to prevent Fraud... - MS3 and Team News... - SEO, Meta Tags, SEF Urls and osCommerce - Commercial Support Inquiries - OSC 2.3+ How To To see what more i can do for you check out my profile [click here]
borghe Posted September 21, 2006 Author Posted September 21, 2006 Both..it makes your site look un-professional grrrrr... noted. unfortunately my header doesn't lend itself well to variable width. I tried it and couldn't make it work. will take another look.
♥toyicebear Posted September 21, 2006 Posted September 21, 2006 grrrrr... noted. unfortunately my header doesn't lend itself well to variable width. I tried it and couldn't make it work. will take another look. Fixed Width Site with CSS Basics for osC 2.2 Design - Basics for Design V2.3+ - Seo & Sef Url's - Meta Tags for Your osC Shop - Steps to prevent Fraud... - MS3 and Team News... - SEO, Meta Tags, SEF Urls and osCommerce - Commercial Support Inquiries - OSC 2.3+ How To To see what more i can do for you check out my profile [click here]
borghe Posted September 21, 2006 Author Posted September 21, 2006 Fixed Width Site with CSS thanks. actually I just figured out variable width for my header and navbar. should have it implemented within the half hour. I appreciate the criticism and working with it now can see where you were saying it looks unprofessional. will post when I have it changed.
borghe Posted September 21, 2006 Author Posted September 21, 2006 ok, I changed the header so it is variable width now as well. Eventually I will improve it so that it is true variable width with the logo staying at the right and cart/buttons at the left, but that will take a little work to do within CSS and not tables. will also look into better SEF urls. imagine I will have to move to mod_rewrite for some of it (currently just using a fixed oSC SEO implementation). any other suggestions? All comments are appreciated.
IndiaStarker Posted September 21, 2006 Posted September 21, 2006 Love the MY ACCOUNT CART and CHECKOUT balloons (or whatever you call them) and the goodlooking menu text which gets bigger on hover across the top, and the rounded look of the "buttons" as well. -i *** Je suis plus souvent sur le forum français *** ms2fr, Header Tags 2.5.5b, Order logging before payment, Better PayPal Description perso, Free shipping per product, Must agree to terms, Country State Selector, World Zones, Visible countries, Store Pick Up, several shipping modules, Personal Invoice Number, 'On the Fly' Auto Thumbnailer using GD Library, More_Pics_6 for 2.2 ms2, Ultimate SEO URLs 2-2.1d/e,Virement Bancaire, Estimated Shipping 1.5, xml_guide, SP+,Step By Step 1.8, Order Editor 2.6.3, Google Analytics, Dynamic Sitemap 2.0, OSC-Expeditor, Recover Cart Sales, Links Manager 1.15 local : linux 2.6 Fedora Core 3, server : APACHE 2.0.54, MySQL 4.1.18, php : 4.4.0 (on strike refuse to update) remote : IcoOpenBSD 4.x, server : IcodiaSecureHttpd, MySQL 4.1.24, php : 4.4.9 You never get a second chance to make a first impression.
♥toyicebear Posted September 22, 2006 Posted September 22, 2006 Looks better much now.... Some small tips... - Remove the default oscommerce cartonish icons, eighter replace them with better looking ones or with 1X1 transparant gifs. - Change the quick find "button" to a nicer one. - If you want to have seo urls then choose and implement a seo url contribution quickly before your old style urls get indexed, for options click on SEF & SEO Urls in my signature below. Basics for osC 2.2 Design - Basics for Design V2.3+ - Seo & Sef Url's - Meta Tags for Your osC Shop - Steps to prevent Fraud... - MS3 and Team News... - SEO, Meta Tags, SEF Urls and osCommerce - Commercial Support Inquiries - OSC 2.3+ How To To see what more i can do for you check out my profile [click here]
muskokee Posted September 22, 2006 Posted September 22, 2006 You need to take a look at your site in 800 resolution. Your header is still too large. The background degrades nicely but the width of the combined images as well as combined navigation images are too large. Really nice site though. I love the attention to detail. One suggestion I have is with regard to your buttons. Not the design, that is fine...the colour. The buttons blend in with your site. These are the way the customer interacts with your shop. They should stand out from the surrounding background..they should shout out "THIS IS WHERE YOU CAN BUY THIS COMIC!". Right now, they are whispering. How about that rich orange colour in your logo? Pull their eyes down to the "add to cart" button ;) Best Sheri
Susan2 Posted September 22, 2006 Posted September 22, 2006 http://www.badgercomics.com I have poured my soul into this site. With that being said, be as brutal as you need to be. I am pretty much still always working on it, so changes and updates are in the cards regardless. comment away. hello very nice site. actually I am looking for someone who can help me with design and layout of my website. do u know some? good luck
borghe Posted September 22, 2006 Author Posted September 22, 2006 to address some of the points: yeah, I still have to remove the remainder of oscommerce icons. I replaced most of the blatant ones that completely took you out of the site, but still have to replace the rest. that is on my medium priority list currently. quickfind button also. I think I am done with SEF URLs. There could be problems later on with many title and item names and as long as the content on each page is verbose enough it shouldn't be too much of a detriment to SEO. Additional thoughts on this would certainly be appreciated. I don't know how much I am going to worry about full display in 800x600. previously with the banner fixed width and the site variable it worked ok. now with the variable width banner I can see it messing up (thanks actually). I am looking into some min-width IE6 fixes. one of the ones I'm looking at seems pretty sound and should handle IE6 and the others seemlessly. then just min-width the site to 800px (technically 820px). I have had 2 out of almost 300 users at 800x600 in the two weeks I've been open. I just need the site to not glitch at 800, but I'm not going to worry about it being 100% viewable at that rez. any additional thoughts on this are appreciated as well. the buttons actually ARE based on the titlebar background gradient swatch. :P I can see what you are saying though. I can try and adjust the brightness down a little on the button background and give it a go. will post again when I make those changes, though probably won't be until tonight.
Guest Posted September 23, 2006 Posted September 23, 2006 i like your site a lot. very well suited to your target audience. although just wondering, what pixel dimensions are you saving your thumbnails as? they seem to load rather slowly.
SeanBarton Posted September 25, 2006 Posted September 25, 2006 I would love someone to have a look over my site and tell me what they think. ive just been employed as a web developer and have loads of ideas but dont know where to start. my boss keeps shouting at me to become an SEO expert...what is it and how can i attract more people to the site with it?? url= http://www.battech.co.uk Sean
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