matarali Posted January 27, 2004 Share Posted January 27, 2004 Hi all, I hope there some features in my new site that may greatly enhance the usability and sell through and wanted to share. Specifically the purchase as Guest (hack) which never asks you to create a password, but once a transaction is processed, with a single click you can convert a guest to a member, log them in and email them a password. For this week, feel free to make an order if you have the time to see this. All other feedback is appreciated Thanks. http://www.idavalley.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trendyfashion Posted January 27, 2004 Share Posted January 27, 2004 Very Very nice, clean original, functional, nice pictures. Great job. How did you make the shopping basket box at the top nav work that way? I was trying that one last night. The Wiki Docs: Read them, live them and be thankful for them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbluffingme Posted January 27, 2004 Share Posted January 27, 2004 nicely done. Very interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueline Posted January 27, 2004 Share Posted January 27, 2004 Copyright notice is misaligned. Need to add a line break. trendyfashion: just do this: <?php echo 'Shopping Basket: [ ' . $cart->count_contents() . ' ]'; ?> Nice job. -Chris Chris Sullivan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aliharis2004 Posted January 27, 2004 Share Posted January 27, 2004 Good Job Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matarali Posted January 27, 2004 Author Share Posted January 27, 2004 If you want the word 'items' to change back and forth from plural to singular use this: <?php echo '[ ' . $cart->count_contents() . ($cart->count_contents() == "1" ? " Item" : " Items "); ?> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
♥monte22 Posted January 27, 2004 Share Posted January 27, 2004 I love it. A completely different style that stock OSC. However, I would suggest a better way to search for products if you plan on adding more inventory in the future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chance Posted January 27, 2004 Share Posted January 27, 2004 I like it, and for some strange reason I want a garden tub. (with free grass, its plastic so it might not die with my black thumb). My advice comes in two flavors- Pick the one that won't offend you. Hard and Cynical: How to Make a Horrible osCommerce Site Warm and Fuzzy: How to Make an Awesome osCommerce Site Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 27, 2004 Share Posted January 27, 2004 Great looking -- love the simlicity. Did you use one of the template systems which get a lot of chatter on the board (STS or BTS) ? Would you be willing to share how you managed the design? Also, are you planning on Contributing your guest Hack? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
defender39 Posted January 27, 2004 Share Posted January 27, 2004 OMG! Who did this for you? How did you get such a great design? Please explain if this is BTS or STS? Personally I dont like the way either is implemented and I think you dont use them but I would like to know for sure. good job Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matarali Posted January 27, 2004 Author Share Posted January 27, 2004 The guest account is a hack of Adam Camuti's Guest Account V2.2 which can be found at: Adam Camuti's Guest Account All I have done is remove the create account box in Login, and added a button on the checkout success page that process a password forgotten request, sends the already created temporary account password to the user and redirects them to a success page. I have not documented this sorry, but am happy to help anyone. As far as the design and development go. This is my own work, everything was done with Photoshop (of course) and Dreamweaver MX. In my opinion, MX is an incredibly powerful, flexible and lightening fast development tool for doing this type of work. (it took 5 days to do this). The products themselves, I make by hand, unfortunately there's no development environments available for that :) Thanks for the feedback, I will be sure to implement search once I get more than 6 sku's, but I cannot reproduce the copyright alignment issue? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TerryK Posted January 27, 2004 Share Posted January 27, 2004 Very nice design -- I like it. Just a few comments: Under the 'Contact Us' section, your phone number looks like a link. I'd be inclined to incorporate it somehow into the header so it's a little less confusing. (Either that or change it to "Phone: 800 IDA VALLEY" under the dropdown.) On your 'About Our Products' page, you say: Please read our returns, exchanges and privacy policies. You will find links to these pages at the bottom of each page of this site. but there is no Returns link at the bottom of the page. Either remove the reference to 'Returns' or change your bottom link to 'Returns/Exchange Policy.' With "The Valley" link first in your 'About Us' section, I presumed you were located in NZ. It might make more sense to put the 'Our Products' link first. Good job, nice products. Best wishes for success! Terry Terry Kluytmans Contribs Installed: Purchase Without Account (PWA); Big Images, Product Availability, Description in Product Listing, Graphical Infobox, Header Tags Controller, Login Box, Option Type Feature, plus many layout changes & other mods of my own, like: Add order total to checkout_shipment Add order total to checkout_payment Add radio buttons at checkout_shipping (for backorder options, etc.) Duplicate Table Rate Shipping Module Better Product Review Flow * If at first you don't succeed, find out if there's a prize for the loser. * Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matarali Posted January 28, 2004 Author Share Posted January 28, 2004 Terry K, Thanks, it took me a while but I finally think i understand your comment about the Valley. Are you referring to The Valley in LA? We are actually located in Florida, but the links under About us were supposed to read. About Us - The Valley (as in, the Ida Valley, which is in New Zealand where I grew up) - Our Products Maye it should read The Ida Valley! Anyway, thanks I addressed your comments about Policies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TerryK Posted January 28, 2004 Share Posted January 28, 2004 What I meant was that, with the first post listed as "The Valley," I was under the impression when I read it that your store was located IN the Ida Valley. If your 'Our Products' page came first in order, I'd have read that you were based in FL, which would have left me less confused (than usual, I might add). :) If you were to change the order, and then rephrase the Valley link, it might make more sense (at least to me). Something like this: Our Products Privacy Policy Returns & Exchanges About the Ida Valley It might also be worth noting your connection to the Ida Valley on your 'Our Products' page. A little bit of background info can go a long way to instilling trust in your customers. One final comment: I think I'd change "Returns and Exchanges Policy" to "Returns and Exchange Policy" or "Returns/Exchange Policy. 'Exchanges' just doesn't sound right to me, though obviously that's only one girl's opinion. :) Terry Terry Kluytmans Contribs Installed: Purchase Without Account (PWA); Big Images, Product Availability, Description in Product Listing, Graphical Infobox, Header Tags Controller, Login Box, Option Type Feature, plus many layout changes & other mods of my own, like: Add order total to checkout_shipment Add order total to checkout_payment Add radio buttons at checkout_shipping (for backorder options, etc.) Duplicate Table Rate Shipping Module Better Product Review Flow * If at first you don't succeed, find out if there's a prize for the loser. * Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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