AndrewC Posted February 25, 2004 Share Posted February 25, 2004 Hi all, well i am almost ready to make my site live, the last few thing i need to do is skin the protx payment page and add front end content. Oh and finish off adding all the decriptions and header tags! (such a drag!!) Any feedback good or bad, i can take it! http://www.fit-smart.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TerryK Posted February 26, 2004 Share Posted February 26, 2004 I do like the site design and layout -- nice colors, nothing jumping out at me that shouldn't be. Unfortunately, the rather professional look falls apart as one reads through the text. You need to do some really good proof-reading of the site before you go live. Here is my 'Top 10' list, in no particular order, from the first page alone. (Actually, not so much a "Top 10" list as a "First Ten" one...) Here goes: 1. In your header image, your catch-phrase is "Think Healthy, Be healthy." The 'h' in the second 'healthy' should be capitalized. 2. Prize Draw: "This months members prize draw..." should read "This month's members' (or member's) prize draw..." 3. In the 'Andy Osborne' box, it's spelled "Osborne" in the header, and "Osbourne" in the text that follows. Which is it? Also, text reads "Andy Osbourne, our highly qualified trainer is on hand..." -- there should be a comma after 'trainer.' 4. In the intro, it reads "Our own personal fitness Andrew Osborne has numerous qualifications and is on hand to recommend fitness equipment answer members queries." Should that be "Our own personal fitness TRAINER..."? And now I find that Andy is 1) Andy Osborne, 2) Andy Osbourne and 3) Andrew Osborne -- find a single way to refer to him and stick with it. Also "fitness equipment answer members queries" should be "fitness equipment AND answer members' queries." 5. In the left hand graphic "The key to your fitness be SMART" -- I think there should be a colon after the word 'fitness.' i.e. "The key to your fitness: be SMART." 6. In the right-hand graphic, "wellbeing" should be hyphenated ("well-being"). 7. This sentence does not make sense: "Here at fit-smart we promote a healthy lifestyle, we want to encourage our members that acheiving this can be fun and enjoyable." Should be two sentences, and "acheiving" should be "achieving." 8. Title for "Andys Blog" should be "Andy's Blog. 9. Under fitness store, "Andys reconmendations" should read "Andy's recommendations." 10. Under your 'Information' column, the first link has first-letter capitals, the others do not. I'd suggest you make it consistent. HTH, 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...
TerryK Posted February 26, 2004 Share Posted February 26, 2004 A couple more things (since I'm sure I haven't made your day yet)... :) 1. Your 'More Info' graphics (text and/or arrows) should all be links. It took me a few seconds to figure out it was the header that was a link on the "Andy Osborne" box as the graphics underneath didn't work. The prize draw and special offer boxes don't have a link at all, and in your boxes under the Create a member profile link, two worked; two did not. 2. Got a 404/page not found error on andy.php 3. "Andys Helpful Information" should read "Andy's Helpful Information," and none of the links work (perhaps because you're not there yet). 4. On the blog page, it reads "Andys Online Journal: Welcome to Andys online journal, this web log is updated regularly with fascinating information form the fitness & lifestyle industry." Should read "Andy's Online Journal: Welcome to Andy's online journal. This web log is updated regularly with fascinating information from the fitness & lifestyle industry." Okay, that's it -- I quit (otherwise I'll have to start billing by the hour!) j/k! :) 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...
AndrewC Posted February 26, 2004 Author Share Posted February 26, 2004 Cheers Terry for that! I always have problems checking my own work! I will get on it straight away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewC Posted February 26, 2004 Author Share Posted February 26, 2004 Cheers Terry for that! Cheers for that Terry! :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewC Posted February 26, 2004 Author Share Posted February 26, 2004 Terry the actual area that you reviewed was the front end html pages. Did you delve into the catalogue? However you were very helpful :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chance Posted February 26, 2004 Share Posted February 26, 2004 I did. Aside from the copy that Terry looked into so deeply, I looked at design and layout. 1. In the information box, you have not defined BOX_INFORMATION_PRIZEDRAW. its pushing your left column out and in effect making your whole page too wide. 2. Your DIV class <div class="productdesc"> on all your product description pages is invalid markup. You need to download a mozilla based browser and see how its messing up and cutting off your product description text. Its overlapping the CSS box, and cuts off the end of your text. For example, on http://www.fit-smart.com/catalog/product_i...products_id/108 this is what you see: MIO Shape is a new and unique lifestyle watch. It?s the world?s first watch to take your ECG-accurate heart rate without the awkward chest strap used by other ECG-accurate heart rate monitors and to use your personal data (birth date, gender, weight and resting heart rate) to calculate the percent of your maximum heart when working out, your calories burned during the day, and more. The MIO Shape monitors your heart rate with a patented technology ? just place two fingers on the MioSensors? located on the watch face to obtain your heart rate at any time. During an exercise session, MIO gives the percent of your maximum heart This is the full description (from source) <div class="productdesc">MIO Shape is a new and unique lifestyle watch. It?s the world?s first watch to take your ECG-accurate heart rate without the awkward chest strap used by other ECG-accurate heart rate monitors and to use your personal data (birth date, gender, weight and resting heart rate) to calculate the percent of your maximum heart when working out, your calories burned during the day, and more.<br> <br> The MIO Shape monitors your heart rate with a patented technology ? just place two fingers on the MioSensors? located on the watch face to obtain your heart rate at any time. During an exercise session, MIO gives the percent of your maximum heart rate to help you get the most out of your workout, calculates the total number of calories burned and indicates how quickly your heart returns to its resting rate, which is a good measurement of fitness.<br> <br> If you want, MIO also keeps a running tally of the calories you consume during the day to help you lose, gain or maintain your weight.</div> (The bold is what is cut off) 3. Your table layout is pushing your site way out on product description pages and nested category pages in mozilla based browsers. Your normal 800x600 fixed width pages are getting pushed out to over 980 wide (making people scroll left 200 pix to see the price, a bad deal in my opinion). 4. In between the "My Basket" and "Members Login" boxes there is a missing spacer image showing up. It looks as though you have spent a great deal of time customizing your osC install, and I have to admit visualy its one of the best sites I have seen. However, great color schemes and innovative layout aside, your site badly needs some polish. A couple days spent by you or someone else on your development team on complete spellchecking, testing, and troubleshooting will reap great rewards for you in the future. 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...
zoomer Posted February 26, 2004 Share Posted February 26, 2004 Good looking site. Besides Terry K's exhaustive list I found one annoying thing. The "special offer", "prize draw", and "andy osborne" graphics are all broken in Mozilla/FireFox(Linux) the second half of the image (Below andy's nose for eg.) are all well below the top image. I think you probably need a valign="top" to get those images to the top of the table so they are directly underneath their accompanying image. I hope that makes sense PM me if not. Probably a font size difference in the browsers that is throwing the table size off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TerryK Posted February 26, 2004 Share Posted February 26, 2004 Terry the actual area that you reviewed was the front end html pages. Well, jeez -- that's what you provided the link to! :) Did you delve into the catalogue? Only a little -- as I said in my initial post, I think your design itself looks nice. It's the 'fine print' that needs some work. As Chance pointed out, you appear to be missing a language define for your prize link in your information box, which is throwing the left column way off. One has to go through a lot of clicks to finally get to a product description. For example, I clicked on the 'Body Monitors' link, which took me to another page where I could choose from scales, fat monitors, etc. Clicked on the Water Monitors link and have to click one more time to get to the product listing. If I were *really* in the market for one of these, I'm not sure I'd have the patience for all the clicking. Maybe it would be worth setting each of these up as separate categories right from the get-go? On your product description page, the 'Add to Basket' button is not overly noticeable. I scrolled through the whole description trying to figure out where it was, and finally saw it in the right column. I believe a typical visitor would be looking for the standard 'Add to Cart' button somewhere in the body of the text -- say, above the 'Overview' text? You need to make it obvious!! Ditto with the price. Given that the left column -- at least right now -- is pushed out by about 20 pixels too far with the language error noted above, I have to scroll right to see the product price in the right column. And, the font used there is so tiny that I have to find a pair of glasses to see how much it's going to cost. You definitely need to increase the font size (IMHO). Found a typo (I think) on your "Tanita BF579W" page. In the 'Features' list, the last point says "High Weigh capacity 150kg/23st." Shouldn't that be High WEIGHT capacity? For the downloadable brochure and larger product image, it might be worth making the text a link as well as the icons to the left. Again, I think you have to make things as obvious as you can (without being obnoxious about it!) to ease your customers on the road to checkout. HTH, Terry P.S. I'll send you my bill... lol :) 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...
meimei Posted February 26, 2004 Share Posted February 26, 2004 Nice color! The prize draw link in the information box shows as BOX_INFORMATION_PRIZEDRAW . You probably forgot to edit the language file. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewC Posted February 27, 2004 Author Share Posted February 27, 2004 I am having problems there, i forgot how to add pages to the catalog! durrrr :unsure: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Assailant Posted February 29, 2004 Share Posted February 29, 2004 hey andrew, i like the look of your site, did you use a template system or any mods to get that look? thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewC Posted March 1, 2004 Author Share Posted March 1, 2004 It was all mods to the html of the site and a few php mods. There are a couple of contributions but the only one i used was teh product listing for the general layout. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Assailant Posted March 1, 2004 Share Posted March 1, 2004 which product listing mod did you use? thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewC Posted March 1, 2004 Author Share Posted March 1, 2004 http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contri...ons,112/page,19 IIRC This one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
webhost Posted March 2, 2004 Share Posted March 2, 2004 Very smart website, love the soft purple and layout. Well done 7/10 keep up the good work, must see this in one month time. Kool :) :unsure: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 2, 2004 Share Posted March 2, 2004 I really like it - nice and clean design Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 18, 2004 Share Posted March 18, 2004 I'm very impressed.. Great job on the site. I love the catagories box.. Did you use a contribution to get it like that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark754 Posted March 18, 2004 Share Posted March 18, 2004 The site looks great. It could probably use a little more variety in colors and maybe a few more images, though, to be a little more eye catching and fun. You could still stick with muted colors to keep it tasteful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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