Finally, I have hacked my way through OsCommerce enough to make the front-end respectable (IMO). So... Question for you my friends. Could you please review this following website? All coments appreciated but in particular I want to know whether it all seems to work on your end. I know the header image is crap, will tackle that shortly - isn't finished (if design talent want to help me out then yes, let me know please!). Could you please add some stuff to your basket, perhaps even run through the check-out. Would be nice to make sure I know it's a test run like filling it out with Mr T Est, B. Ogus and Mrs R. Eview etc. BTW: only british postcodes work so use something like KT5 8DJ, SW18 2ES, MK9 8FS etc. I must have missed half a dozen things so fire away! If any issues, please report which browser you use, which file you were looking at, your cookie settings, resolution etc. Thorough reviewers can claim a free BL (from a different site). 2 for the person who can locate my admin folder and access it. [broken-url] http://w*w.buy-a-mattress.co.uk/?dp [/broken-url] PS The focus for now is on functionality... But also interested to hear when you find American sentences as oppose to British English. Thanks!
Seems to work just fine - found a selection of brands, browsed different products, nearly bought something, removed it from cart... Just a couple of items... /images/cardlogos.gif has no title tag why does Mattresses-> in the categories box have the "arrow" on the end? Found I had to hover over most stuff to see where the links were. Some of them a little unclear. Other than that works just fine, nice job (FireFox 1.0, WinXpPro SP2, 19", 1600x1200, 32million colours)
http://w***w.buy-a-mattress.co.uk/mattresses-c-21.html - No image on the left Looks good to me though. http://validator.w3.org/check?verbo...ess.co.uk/ergolattex-latex-mattress-p-43.html Cough ***Validation*** Cough
I never use title tags. Should I? The arrow means there are sub cats. I want it to expand as standard but haven;t found a contrib yet that does this. Yes, I was thinking of changing links to make it underlined again. Thanks!
Not sure what you mean. There should be 3 sub categories* and I see all 3 pics. *Reminds me to install the contrib that allows text on these pages. Handy for SEO. I also need a thumbnail creator since on the product listings thy are all 30ish K instead of 2-3. Sites are just never 'finished' are they? And validation... I have seen no correlation between validation and sales yet so that'd be my last point on the agenda. I know some think highly of it but I believe I can spend my time better for now. i will check it out eventually though since it does make sites 'future proof'.
The left image wasn't displaying for me... Maybe you were doing some tweaking when I looked at the page???
Not really I guess. I'm on FF 1.01 as well. The site does use a caching mechanism but haven't had image issues before.
Strictly speaking, I shoulda said that img tag has no title attribute - your "JBO logo" has alt and title attributes, as does your "AG Button", just the credit card logo doesn't - I only noticed it when hovering over the images - FireFox expands title attributes to describe images whereas IE expands alt attributes from what I remember... it's an accessibility aid more than anything.
OK an ALT... Will add that thanks. Yeah accessibility is getting tricky in the UK with the new laws. Another thing o the pile 'todo'. Edit: Strange.. It did have an alt but within single quotation as oppose to the buttons which have alt with doubles ". Edit2: I see now that IE takes the alt as the yellow background pop up text but FF strictly uses the title tag. Interesting. Learn something every day!