Your opinions would be most welcome...

[russell king]

Hi all

After months of late nights, hair pulling and teeth gnashing our new Actinic website is finally ready (ish).

http://www.CanvasEtc.com

I would be very interested in other Actinic users/online shop owner's opinions, especially on any suggested improvements.

In places we have had to drastically customise/trick/misuse Actinic into doing what we wanted, which was very frustrating.

I'd like to thank everyone in this community who has helped me out over the last few months....

Kind regards

Russell King

Canvas Etc...
fashion for walls....

[clefty]

Wow
One of the best I've seen.

[wjcampbe]

I get a blank box top left of the settee graphic that has a - title:Click to view artwork - when I hover over it. Clicking led me to a 404 that linked me back to the same page with the same error.

[russell king]

Bill

thanks. I can not recreate this problem?! What browser etc are you using?

thanks

Russell King
www.CanvasEtc.com
fashion for walls....

[clefty]

Bill,
Are you using Opera? IE and FF are OK, Opera 8.5 does as you describe
Opera's JS console is throwing the following:

Error:
name: TypeError
message: Statement on line 84: Could not convert undefined or null to object
Backtrace:
  Line 84 of linked script http://www.canvasetc.com/acatalog/ce.js
    document.images.PictureBox.filters.blendTrans.Apply();
  Line 1 of inline#1 script in http://www.canvasetc.com/
    runSlideShow();

[NormanRouxel]

I see this in the home page source

<div id="ImageMask" onClick="LoadProductPage()" title="Click to view artwork">&nbsp;</div> </div>

That seems to put a single clickable space at the top left of your changing image area. If you select the page you'll see it. There also may be un unmatched </div> there.

Also using Firefox and it's Tools / JavaScript console throws up numerous CSS errors in ce.css.

Opera doesn't show the Title text for the slideshow.

[wjcampbe]

@Clefty - yep, you got me. I use Opera to read the forum and that is always what I use first to check out a new site.

@Russell - in FireFox and IE7 I get the slide show, but not in Opera 8.52 - so 99.9% of your users will be OK as is

[clefty]

The reason Opera is failing is the use of document.all
This is is an IE only JavaScript implementation, hence Opera breaking.
Firefox is still working, even though it officially doesn't support document.all - it has an internal hack to convert calls to document.all to document.getElementById so that pages coded for IE don't die in Firefox, thus putting IE users off trying Firefox!
As Bill says, don't worry too much about Opera but it's good practice to use getElementById whenever possible; this way you cover all bases

[clefty]

This is just nit-picking as your site is graphically very impressive but when you checkout, you've got bog-standard html buttons with no CSS styling. This looks out of place considering the attention to detail over every other aspect.

Lovely site though...

[whirlex]

this is one of the best Actinic sites ive seen...

It doesnt look like an actinic site, which IMO is a good thing, and it is perfect for what you need it to do/to showcase your product. It wouldnt work for me for instance.

With any site, there are things that could be improved, for instance I would have the logo at the top in a better res, it looks grainy and slightly blurry to me, that would be a 15 minute job. And maybe have some type of cart summary viewable the majority of time....

An idea Ive been having is to make one that is able to be made visible by clicking a button, and vice versa. Sure it could be done in CSS.

But anyway... Its as close to perfect as I've seen....