georgyp Posted March 16, 2007 Posted March 16, 2007 hi there people, ive decided that my website looks the worst, i desperately need some help anyone kind enough to give me some help sorting it out. the domain is http://www.starwarstoysnstuff.com/georgiestoybox regards karl
bill110 Posted March 17, 2007 Posted March 17, 2007 Just a few notes about the shop in the admin section set your small image width or height and leave the other blank.(this will help to prevent squishing images) use a thumbnail contribution and maybe get larger images . Use the stylesheet to match color scheme to your banner at the top. Remember if you change the color of the box tops you will need to edit the corner images in catelog/images/infobox. There is a start for you. hope it helps My Contributions Stylesheet With Descriptions Glassy Grey Boxtops Our Products Meta Tags On The Fly Password Protect Admin "No matter where you go....There you are" - Buccaroo Bonsai
Guest Posted March 17, 2007 Posted March 17, 2007 Wow, that is a bit ugly. My opinion is that it is too stock. Needs individuality, plus lots more. A few things that I think will help you on your way. 1. You still have the old product categories and products that were in the vanilla install as a quide. You will need to get rid of them. 2. Get rid of the cartoon images the are on the vanilla install. They do not fit into your sites' theme. 3. As mentioned by Bill, you need larger images for the expanded view. You can use Bill's suggestion for the thumbnails, or if you have a mixture of portrait and landscape images, perhaps a contribution that lets you retain the aspect ratio of the image may be better. I use Image Stretch Fix (http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contri...age+stretch+fix), it is easy to install and works a treat. Have a look at the site I am setting up at the moment - www.udi.com.au Most of the changes were made in the stylesheet and the use of the info box skin manager contribution (http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contri...ox+skin+manager) I don't know what you can do with the navigation menu at the moment. It is very cluttered. Perhaps simplify the initial menu, and then then perhaps use subcategories that will give you more room to list the categories a lot tidier. Another way would possibly be using a drop down menu, but that may be beyond you at the moment, as it not easy to integrate into osC. Hope the points help in some way. Regards. Mark
usernamenone Posted March 17, 2007 Posted March 17, 2007 Open your includes header.php and at or around line 58 find and remove these lines of code. it will get rid of the right side header links. <td align="right" valign="bottom"><?php echo '<a href="' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_ACCOUNT, '', 'SSL') . '">' . tep_image(DIR_WS_IMAGES . 'header_account.gif', HEADER_TITLE_MY_ACCOUNT) . '</a> <a href="' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_SHOPPING_CART) . '">' . tep_image(DIR_WS_IMAGES . 'header_cart.gif', HEADER_TITLE_CART_CONTENTS) . '</a> <a href="' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_CHECKOUT_SHIPPING, '', 'SSL') . '">' . tep_image(DIR_WS_IMAGES . 'header_checkout.gif', HEADER_TITLE_CHECKOUT) . '</a>'; ?> </td> Find every color #bbc3d3; and change to the color black #000; to change the side box background color to match black, you will find the color #f8f8f9; and change to something like #f0f0f0; or white #fff; Open you images folder and find the infobox folder. Edit the corners for your boxes by flood filling the black. You could download my stlye sheet defined. http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contri...y/search,111561 Boom, new look.
Guest Posted March 17, 2007 Posted March 17, 2007 I know it's a lot of work (what isn't?) but you might want to rename your category titles, prod names etc. without using ALL CAPS. It just makes it more difficult to read IMO. Also, the html in your prod descriptions is kind of tacky like an old-school personal webpage or an amateur ebay listing, just makes me very :x from a design perspective.
usernamenone Posted March 17, 2007 Posted March 17, 2007 EnchantedGC, Oh, my god you are right about the caps. I was looking at the design an didn't notice. georgyp, Product discriptions should be left aligned and not centered. That should keep you busy for a while.............. Oh, well you asked. :'( Don't you hate it when you ask a question and you leave your computer for a few hours and you get help that will keep you busy for days? :rolleyes:
Guest Posted March 17, 2007 Posted March 17, 2007 Also, you are linking to externally hosted images in some descriptions like: http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2006-1/1139...09-06%20012.jpg on this page: http://www.starwarstoysnstuff.com/georgies...products_id=232 If you want a large image to show in your prod page, then you should be uploading a larger image to the prod itself and then modify the product_info.php to show the large image right on the page instead of using the thumbnail/click to enlarge option. This can be done via a contribution if you don't know how to do it manually. Sorry, but I don't think we're going to stop until your site looks presentable :P !
usernamenone Posted March 17, 2007 Posted March 17, 2007 After all that is what we are good at. On the good side, your header image rocks! Just make sure to color your header background after you remove those horrid right side image links. :rolleyes: Sorry, but I don't think we're going to stop until your site looks presentable :P !
spax Posted March 17, 2007 Posted March 17, 2007 On the good side, your header image rocks! Hmm, a matter of opinion I guess. ;)
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