Of my e-book store.. Yup .. allonepound.com is now known as .. http://www.eguides.co/ and i've taken everything you've said in the first review... and made it better! :0) Any input welcomed :0) Regards, Tom Brett.
Well you still have the HTML 2 formatting in an outdated tranny document, tags like FONT that have zero damned business in any website written since 1998, gibberish run-on paragraph doing a list's job, extra DIV around the H1 for christmas only knows what, Paragraph alongside it for something that seems to be PART of the heading, I see turdpress is still pissing all over your menus, tables around things that aren't tabular data, incomplete forms, absolute URI's for no reason other than to waste bandwidth, no alt text on your images, and it would appear to still be a broken fixed width layout with crappy little fixed metric (px) fonts relying on fixed backgrounds instead of leveraging CSS to do the heavy lifting. In other words a poster child for "transitional" -- a polite way of saying "in transition from 1997 to 1998 development practices". Hence the 18k of HTML doing somewhere around 10k's job. Also, it's not copyright copyright; use the symbol or the word, not both! I'd probably also lose the 1990's style W3C logos since normal visitors to websites could give a flying **** about that. Alright, I tell you what... I'm busy through today on another project (well, two actually) but if I have the time tomorrow I'll belt together a quick example rewrite of the homepage with full explanations of the how/what/why of it... Just so you can see what I'm talking about. Though good luck convincing turdpress to output my coding style; we get along like sodium and water.
Here's that rewrite -- took me a day longer than planned to get to it... here I am allegedly retired and stuff still stacks up on my workdesk. :/ http://www.cutcodedown.com/for_others/dvChaos/bookStore/template.html As with all my examples the directory: http://www.cutcodedown.com/for_others/dvChaos/bookStore/ Is wide open for easy access to the bits and pieces. As you can see the HTML: http://www.cutcodedown.com/for_others/dvChaos/bookStore/template.html.txt Is significantly simpler than what you had, at a roughly 10k in size. The CSS: http://www.cutcodedown.com/for_others/dvChaos/bookStore/screen.css Also cuts through a lot of the nonsense you were being saddled with. Try resizing your browser window down smaller to go through all the layouts, there are 4 major breakpoints allowing the layout to scale to three, two, one with two below or single column design. No goofy framework asshattery needed. Though try convincing turdpress to use that sane markup, it will likely fight you every blasted step of the way. The white backgrounds and rounded corners are generated by CSS instead of images, as is the blue toned background on the sub-headings. It uses two-resolution switching images for the social icons so that it will look better on "retina" type high resolution hardware or on non-standard system metrics. The whole thing is elastic so it will automatically scale the fonts, paddings and widths to the user preferences, and thanks to the semantic markup it does a decent job of graceful degradation CSS off/blocked/unavailable, or even images off. ... and the show/hide menu thing it does for mobile? Doesn't use JavaScript... and doesn't chew on battery wasting time on transitions for it. (though those are easily added) I'm on another project but when that's hit the next milestone I'll write up HTML and CSS breakdowns to explain the how/what/why of it, though for now let's just say it basically follows the procedures I outlined here: http://www.cutcodedown.com/article/progressive_enhancement I'll get to the code summaries when I get a chance... but for now take a good hard look at that markup and my progressive enhancement article.
Why do you keep posting a review request for essentially the same site? Maybe the minor improvements you make are noticeable to you, but they are not to anyone else. 1. Throw your ENTIRE template away. I recall seeing those types of templates back in 2001. How hard is it to browse around to find out what your close competitors look like? http://www.booktopia.com.au/?ebooks http://www.angusrobertson.com.au/ebooks/c/ebooks http://www.ebooks.com/ May not be the best examples, but still all of them convey trust and professionalism (outwardly). 2. I didn't notice this before, but today your site is slow to load up. Could be just a temporary thing. Seriously, Tom, you need to re-vamp your entire site if you want to see any sales in the future. If I was looking for an e-book I would probably skip your site even if you happened to have the e-book I wanted. Think like a customer. Does your site exude trust, quality and professionalism? I honestly don't think it does.
A lot of that is just the 64 seperate files and that a number of the scripts and script placements are "blocking" render. There's a reason I draw the line at two social media networks as the scripts for them are train wrecks. His site in it's current state is taking ~24 seconds to load here, which is pretty bad, but MOST of that can be blamed on "table_skins.php' being loaded as CSS (which is as always some real asshat bullshit), the stupid malfing "hotjar" tracking scripttardery, the ridiculously long handshake for the "addthis" nonsense, and as always the stupid malfing "wp-embed.min.js" crap doing things that have no damned business being done on a website.