joeyjgarcia Posted May 25, 2004 Share Posted May 25, 2004 I know my site isn't as nice as some of these other sites, but I am still amazed at how much people can tweak the look of the osC basic framework. Here is my site. http://www.goodnewsclothing.com The "Link To Us" page is not done, I just started it last night and I still have to finish it. I appreciate your time and thanks in advance for your comments. Joey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chance Posted May 25, 2004 Share Posted May 25, 2004 Quite a bit of horizontal scroll at 800x600 due to the google ad at the top and the wide paypal graphic in the right column. I would recomend moving these to the bottom of the page and making your logo a bit wider. It is your corporate identity, google adwords are not. 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...
joeyjgarcia Posted May 25, 2004 Author Share Posted May 25, 2004 I will seriously consider moving the Google adSense ads from the top and make a more pleasing image to fill the space it will leave. As far as sizing my site to fit 800x600, I might let that one go, because if your monitor is only VGA resolution then you are probably getting hortizonal scroll on a lot of sites. I'll also start paying more attention to the screen depth/resoltuon on my web statistics. Thanks for the feedback so far. Does the site look boring? Professional? hokie? too busy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burt Posted May 25, 2004 Share Posted May 25, 2004 The site looks boring. But it's OK. Useless trivia: If you remove the lettering from the image here: http://www.goodnewsclothing.com/product_in...products_id=142 - that's almost the exact tattoo I have on my arm... btw, your site definately doesn't fit 800 resolution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeyjgarcia Posted May 25, 2004 Author Share Posted May 25, 2004 Is there anything constructive that you can add? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burt Posted May 25, 2004 Share Posted May 25, 2004 Not really. It's just OK - nothing wrong with it, nothing great with it. Unimaginative springs to mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeyjgarcia Posted May 25, 2004 Author Share Posted May 25, 2004 Is it better to just remove the right column? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burt Posted May 25, 2004 Share Posted May 25, 2004 I'm trying to order a couple of products. I chose a $14.80 shipping method (that's not bad). It is then giving a $47.50 shipping charge in checkout_confirmation.php screen. Whats up with that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeyjgarcia Posted May 25, 2004 Author Share Posted May 25, 2004 Wow! What exactly did you do so I can recreate it. You're right, there is something wrong there. Thanks for the help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeyjgarcia Posted May 25, 2004 Author Share Posted May 25, 2004 As far as design goes, I am not very imaginitive, but I can copy a design pretty well. I guess I should buy you book. ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burt Posted May 25, 2004 Share Posted May 25, 2004 put a couple of items in my cart. put in my details. chose 14.80 (air parcel post). Continued. chose paypal. got to checkout_confirmation and the shipping method changed to us global post (or something like that). I ain't paying 50$ for shipping! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeyjgarcia Posted May 25, 2004 Author Share Posted May 25, 2004 So that was USPS Parcel Post, shipping to the UK. I currently have the product weight set to 1lb so for all shirts it would n lbs. How many shirts did you have or what was your total amount? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobthelucky Posted May 26, 2004 Share Posted May 26, 2004 also if you are worried about a red x where the google image is cause u said u would find a different image for there, all u have to do is copy one of there pixel_transparent .gifs to put there then no pic no red x dont know if u needed that or not i think your store looks good you are selling shirts and stuff pretty cool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burt Posted May 26, 2004 Share Posted May 26, 2004 So that was USPS Parcel Post, shipping to the UK. I currently have the product weight set to 1lb so for all shirts it would n lbs. How many shirts did you have or what was your total amount? 1 shirt, 1 beanie. Postage is too expensive for abroad - though I have just noticed that you only ship within continental USA. If so it would be worth removing the countries you don't ship to from the countries list. hth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
youssefxyz Posted May 26, 2004 Share Posted May 26, 2004 hey joey how did u do the Featured product design ???I would love to have one like that on my site Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
etepalusip Posted May 26, 2004 Share Posted May 26, 2004 Looks pretty good from what i've seen. I think your link to us banner is better than your homepage logo and definitely agree that the google adsense should be moved. I like the color scheme....it's different enough and your buttons go very well with the rest of the site. Where are you located? I'm here in NC (bible belt for sure) and it probably will make sense to add your link to a couple of my sites. Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeyjgarcia Posted May 26, 2004 Author Share Posted May 26, 2004 Thanks for the positive comments, I have to admit my ego was really bruised yesterday because there were nothing but negative comments. I am going to remain objective and I am planning to do a redesign that will be more of an upgrade to the site design rather than a total redesign. etepalusip: I've decided that I will move my adSense from the top and I was thinking about removing the right column, but not sure if I am totally convinced that is a "must change". I think I could do myself a real favor if I remove adSense from my header and use that area for my logo and some eye candy imagery and possibly moving the search to that upper right location. I would like to exhange links with you so just email me. I am going to add a small image for Link Exchanges in case people want to use a small image instead of the banner image. youssefxyz: Thanks, this was an area that I focused on first when I got my site developed, since then I have been working on functionality (PHP development) and I am having a contribution in beta testing now that will make the Products Attributes obsolete. I hate that part of the osC backend and it takes way too long! I am assuming that you are talking about the rounded rectangles with the fade behind my items. Here are the steps I used to make that happen. 1) Designed the image I wanted to be behind my products keeping in mind that an area that would be tall enough to handle longer titles under the images. Basically, make you rectangle tall enough to handle about 3 lines of text. 2) Once you are happy with your design I used a feature in my graphic tool (Ulead's PhotoImpact 8) called "Slice". This feature is probably pretty common by now and I would think most graphic tools have it, or you could just download your own that just does "slicing". I sliced my image, mostly hortizontally and had it exported to an HTML page. This puts the images in a table in the middle of a plain HTML page. That is what I work from. 3) I decide what is going to go where and this helps me decide if I should keep the iamge in the created table between the <td> tags or make a background image for that cell (<td>) or even that row (<tr>). I would put it in the background it I need to put text in that cell that would lay directly on top of the image, i.e. the background. This take some trial and error to make sure that your table doesn't get spaces that show the slices. You can test it out in a static page to see how it will handle the different conditions of your products information. 4) Once it is just right, I take my static version and make it into one long string in my text editor. Here is a hint in this step, put some text that will be a marker to help you find where the price goes, where the image goes, and where the title goes. Be sure that you make a copy of the table and change the copied table into one long string, because you'll have to got back and tweak it a couple of times and it is nice to start from the nicely formatted table rather than the one long string version. In the new products module I put the price (both of them), the image and the title in separate variables like this: $price, $msrp, $title, $image and replaced these with the marker text that I mentioned earlier. Thanks it. I hope that was clear enough. I appreciate you comments. Joey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iainshaw Posted May 26, 2004 Share Posted May 26, 2004 just a quickie, is that meant to say Christian Hear Gear or Christian Head Gearin the category link at the bottom? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeyjgarcia Posted May 26, 2004 Author Share Posted May 26, 2004 Wow, I never caught that! Thanks a lot!!! I'm going to redo that whole bottom area. Much Appreciation, Joey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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