Comments please

[ecarey]

Pixelatedreams is a graphics site for the users of Curious Labs Poser. There are a few products there, before I get too deep into this I would like comments on the site itself and suggestions on what could be done to improve. Critism welcome.

 

Eddie

[ecarey]

Forgot the site www.pixelatedreams.com

[Guest]

Looks very good, but I think you need more text to explain what you're selling, especially on your homepage. If I'd stumbled on your site without knowing exactly what it was I might think it was a site for computer animated porn! :lol:

 

Having to click to enter & then putting your products at the bottom of your default page means most people will think they have to click on one of the links on the left to even see what you sell. Put the products higher up & get rid of the first page.

 

I'm now going to play around & see if I can emulate what you've done with your background. Thanks for the inspiration.

[ecarey]

Surprizing what a couple of pretty faces lead people to think. nun the less most visitors are from places like renderosity and 3Dcommune that have an intrest in 3D graphics, but again I can see what you mean.

 

The backgrounds

 

1. created a single cell table with the outer background created from a TD class

2. within that table created another single cell table with the backgrounds for the contents

3 in side the second table is oscommerce

4 remove all color in the TD and TR for the cells in header footer and infobox items

 

table starts are in the header.php and table closes are in footer.php

 

Something like Center Shop by Webmakers but I had more control this way.

 

Thanks for the feedback, it's a work in progress and progress sometimes is slow.

 

Eddie

[Kinky Clothes]

looks really great! :P

 

any chance of pointing me or explaing the background again..... in OSc n00b language?

 

i would love to have something like that.

 

Lisa.

[ecarey]

Added this after the first ?> about line 51 in header.php

 

<table width="100%" height="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">

<tr>

<td class="outerBase">

<br><br>

<table width="750" border="2" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" align="center" bgcolor="#808000">

<tr>

<td class="platform">

 

The first table is the background in the browser (outerBase), the second table start is for the width and border around the shop (platform)

 

The outerBase is the tile background around the shop

 

platform is the border background in the shop iteslf, there's tons of them out there for free, I made mine from some celtic knot patterns and graidents in Photoshop

 

platformHeader is for a different header background to strecth across

 

TD.platform {

background: #000000 url(images/content/bg1.jpg) repeat-y;

border : 8px inset #DEB887;

}

 

TR.platformHeader {

background: url(images/content/bg2.jpg) repeat-y;

}

 

TD.outerBase {

background: #000000 url(images/content/bg2.gif) repeat;

border-style : groove;

border : #DEB887;

}

 

In the footer in footer.php I just removed the date and counter.

 

In any of the tables, cells or info boxes above the background just remove the background colors

 

I done this on the fly so details on what I done I am just backtracking, I'm building an OSC shop for my father and I will pay attention to more detail and try to create a mod.

[snagelcat]

WELL DONE!!!!!!!!

 

I love looking at sites where someone really poured thier heart into it

 

 

:lol:

 

Sean

[Kinky Clothes]

wow took me ages to find this thread again :oops:

 

i have to admitt, your site is prolly one of the nicest sites i have ever seen, the theme you use is amazing and consistent.

 

anyway thx for the info u posted..... but because i lost the thread i installed the center shop mod, it took me a few hours to stick it all in and match it to my sites theme so i would feel a little gutted if i had to take it out..... so.... any chance u know of a way to get a nice background around my shop? i'm gonna mess around with the code u pasted above and see if i can chop and change to work with center shop.

 

thx :)

[Guest]

anyway thx for the info u posted..... but because i lost the thread i installed the center shop mod, it took me a few hours to stick it all in and match it to my sites theme so i would feel a little gutted if i had to take it out..... so.... any chance u know of a way to get a nice background around my shop? i'm gonna mess around with the code u pasted above and see if i can chop and change to work with center shop.

 

thx :)

You just need to add

background="images/bgimage.gif"

after

// Is a bgroundcolor set for around the shop

   if ( CENTER_SHOP_BACKGROUND_ON=='1' ) {

?>

   <table width="100%" cellpadding="<?php echo CENTER_SHOP_PADDING; ?>" cellspacing="0" border="0"

...and of course to upload an image. :wink:

[Kinky Clothes]

yay!!! thx guys

 

because i got advertising on the site it wouldnt work properly but i finally found a way :D, i put the advertising tables between the outerbase and the platform classes... i think i might just be getting used to this PHP :) only thx to people like you :)

 

just have to sort out some nice images when i get home, i'm working from my parents house and i forgot my photoshop cd :( so i had to make do with MS Paint :twisted:

 

anyway heres the almost finished product www.kinky-clothes.com/catalog

 

once again thx ppl!

 

Kinky.