flagfanatics Posted February 27, 2004 Share Posted February 27, 2004 Okay all, I'm pretty much done with this bad boy. I know I can rely on you guys to give it to me straight so let me have it. I would LUV and I mean LUV to get the parse times down to as little as possible for each page but I'm not really sure how that can be done. Other than that let me know what you think. http://flagfanatics.com/store/catalog and remember I can take it. Many thanks for everyone's support and guidance throughout this project. Jacob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoomer Posted February 28, 2004 Share Posted February 28, 2004 Damn! Thats slowwwww. Your ping times seem in the normal range but that server is slow. What sort of hosting do you have? Dedicated or shared because it shouldn't be that slow. Your going to lose alot of customers because their not going to wait. I gave up trying to pull up the page the 2nd and 3rd times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chance Posted February 28, 2004 Share Posted February 28, 2004 Please go download a Mozilla based browser and see how messed up your index page is. Tables or div tags or something is pushing it out and overlapping index text on your right column infoboxes. Product pages look good, everything is good except index. php as far as I can see. Probably whack div tags. Your product images look good, your header is super, but you have done nothing to change the stock look of the infoboxes. When the header loaded, I was expecting something great and was kinda let down by the lack of at least infobox customization. With all these great flags, why not try to replace those boring box headers with nifty flag banner type images of some sort? I had no problem with speed on your site, might be on zoomers end. 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...
innerfire Posted February 28, 2004 Share Posted February 28, 2004 I don't know if it is my Safari Browser or if you were working on the site when I came by, but in stead of loading the index.php page it showed me the entire list of folders and files. My parse time was: 0.298s Initial reaction is that it looks like osCommerce with a well designed header. There are many levels beyond where it is that you can take it to to make it feel more whole. I would continue the header theme into the rest of the osC boxes. Otherwise it feels a little too make shift. Make sure to match up the fonts in the site css with the header as it is a little different on my browser. Site navigation is clear as it was very easy to find my favorite teams. Great job! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burt Posted February 28, 2004 Share Posted February 28, 2004 I also get the list of pages (IE6 on Win98), so something is up with your server configuration. Header quite nice, rest of site is boring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 2, 2004 Share Posted March 2, 2004 i'm getting the filelist too. make sure the server is configured for "index.php" as a default start page. other than the header image, it's pretty much a standard osc site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
♥monte22 Posted March 2, 2004 Share Posted March 2, 2004 Your site is W...I...D...E. I don't mind it on my 17in powerbook, but someone with a 800x600 resolution would have to scroll over to see a good portion of you site INCLUDING THE SHOPPING CART INFOBOX!! It looks like this is from your product images in the "Whats New For ..." box. I would either make the images smaller or change them to only 2 wide instead of 3. Just my .02. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
webhost Posted March 2, 2004 Share Posted March 2, 2004 the flags need to shrink a little and the header is tops, needs slicing to load a little faster, otherwise a standard start up. All the best to you, more work needed. 6/10 http://flagfanatics.com/store/catalog/index.php this link works better for ya.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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