Work in progress

[Guest]

Hello,

 

My site is still very much a work in progress. It was originally a template, so I take no credit

for the layout, but the code was so broken I found myself learning a lot about php <_< and

found some great advice here in the fourm.

 

Please take a look at my web site via these links...

 

Here is the main page puresoftcotton.com and here is one of the products product

 

On the product above I have removed the click to enlarge product (image and text link) and

replaced it with a reasonable sized product image (just over 10K).

 

Do you think this is a good method of presenting products? Elsewhere the site is untidy where

I am changing code, the store is not live.

 

Any comments are welcome.

[Guest]

5 second look comments: site looks nice, soft, conducive to your likely target market.

[Guest]

Thanks Jcall,

 

Where possible I am trying to keep the site as fast and as clean as possible, so

if there is anyone on dial-up I would also appricate some feed back on loading time.

[Guest]

You could add a timer to the bottom of the page. If it's supposed to be "public" already, then you could conditionally display the timer with something like

 if ($_GET['123debug123'] ==1) { show the timer you set up previously; }

 

then you display the timer by adding a ?123debug123=1 to the end of the URL.

[Guest]

Thanks Jcall,

 

I appriciate the tip.

[iainfaulds]

Hi, really like the site, you're doing great! I think the image works well and unless you have better resolution images there's no need to have an enlarge option.

 

One thing I tried yesterday on my own site was Lightbox 2 which gives a bigger picture without the ugly pop up. It opens a larger image in the same window with shading if you want. Dead simple, but quite effective. It wouldn't hurt to give it a try.

 

Overall though I like the feel of your site. Good luck!

[Guest]

Thanks Iain,

 

I will take a look at that Lightbox 2.

 

There is a little trick I applied to the larger images (often used in magazines to cover

imperfections). In photoshop open up your original image and apply unsharp mask, then

duplicate the layer, on the duplicate add a Gausian Blur filter (radius about 5 pix) then slide

the opacity down to 50% (this gives the soft look) then use the eraser to remove the blur

on the product item so that it is sharp and attracts the eye (revealing the background layer).

Flatten the image save as .jpg and your done. :)

[iainfaulds]

Thanks Iain,

 

I will take a look at that Lightbox 2.

 

There is a little trick I applied to the larger images (often used in magazines to cover

imperfections). In photoshop open up your original image and apply unsharp mask, then

duplicate the layer, on the duplicate add a Gausian Blur filter (radius about 5 pix) then slide

the opacity down to 50% (this gives the soft look) then use the eraser to remove the blur

on the product item so that it is sharp and attracts the eye (revealing the background layer).

Flatten the image save as .jpg and your done. :)

nice :-) although probably not so great on my site as I do baby clothes, lol!