DragRacingHeaven.com

[adodd]

Hi all,

I see some great feedback here for several OSCommerce sites and hope I can get some too. My site, http://www.dragracingheaven.com, has been up since January 10. We've been doing some business on it but it seems like the ratio of visitors to orders isn't very good. We are getting over 100 visitors a day right now and have a goal of 450 visitors per day by October. I have a couple specific questions and would love any other feedback I can get. It doesn't look like I have to worry about sugar coating around here, which is good.

 

Here are my questions...

 

Do I give too much personal information?

Does it look professional?

Does it seem to load sloooowww? Ideas on how to speed it up.

Why can't I get rid of the security message in IE? I've looked at it several times and can't find the culprit.

How is the flow of the site - is it easy to use?

 

I've got a blog with Google - Blogger that I am going to be adding soon. I really wanted to keep the look of it consistent with the site, but it seems impossible to get the best of all worlds. If I modify it using the old template system in Blogger I can't use all the great new features. If I use the new templates I can't get the code modified correctly to change the look of the site.

 

Question being ~ does it matter if the blog looks like the rest of the site?

[K3D]

Why can't I get rid of the security message in IE? I've looked at it several times and can't find the culprit.

 

The culprit is the google analytics code. I followed someone elses advice and added the google tracking code as follows:

 

add this to your footer (or wherever you wish to place your tracking code)

 

<?php
if ($request_type != 'SSL') {
echo GOOGLE_ANALYTICS;
}
else
{
echo GOOGLE_ANALYTICS_SSL;
}
?>

 

now open your includes/languages/english.php and paste the following before the closing ?>

 

define('GOOGLE_ANALYTICS', '
<script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript">
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
_uacct = "UA-******-*";
urchinTracker();
</script>');

define('GOOGLE_ANALYTICS_SSL', '
<script src="https://ssl.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript">
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
_uacct = "UA-******-*";
urchinTracker();
</script>');

 

replace the *'s with your own code. Hope this helps.

[adodd]

Hi all,

I see some great feedback here for several OSCommerce sites and hope I can get some too. My site, http://www.dragracingheaven.com, has been up since January 10. We've been doing some business on it but it seems like the ratio of visitors to orders isn't very good. We are getting over 100 visitors a day right now and have a goal of 450 visitors per day by October. I have a couple specific questions and would love any other feedback I can get. It doesn't look like I have to worry about sugar coating around here, which is good.

 

Here are my questions...

 

Do I give too much personal information?

Does it look professional?

Does it seem to load sloooowww? Ideas on how to speed it up.

Why can't I get rid of the security message in IE? I've looked at it several times and can't find the culprit.

How is the flow of the site - is it easy to use?

 

I've got a blog with Google - Blogger that I am going to be adding soon. I really wanted to keep the look of it consistent with the site, but it seems impossible to get the best of all worlds. If I modify it using the old template system in Blogger I can't use all the great new features. If I use the new templates I can't get the code modified correctly to change the look of the site.

 

Question being ~ does it matter if the blog looks like the rest of the site?

 

Thank you so much, I will try this in a little bit. I know this problem has to be part of the reason our sales aren't higher. Over 80% of our users use IE.

[adodd]

Why can't I get rid of the security message in IE? I've looked at it several times and can't find the culprit.

 

 

Thank you Kevin, that worked! I was a little concerned once I took a closer look because I use sts templates but I just placed it in all my template files. I had to modify the request line so the code I used was

<?php
if ($request_type == 'SSL') {
echo GOOGLE_ANALYTICS;
}
else
{
echo GOOGLE_ANALYTICS_SSL;
}
?>

 

Thanks again Kevin!

 

I would love more feedback ~ you guys are the experts. Let me have it.