errors on laytop which I can't replicate on pc

[Donna Kempster]

You've abandoned the traditional credit-cards-and-delivery-info on the front page approach which I was lead to believe was a must-have. I wonder what the panel will make of that?

Hi

I thought we had done this but obviously not well enough! We have a delivery info section on the top nav bar which is then shown on all pages (i've even put it on the extended info pages). Should we be even more obvious than this then? I've thought about putting the cc logo's on the home page but haven't got round to it - would you all say that this is really important and where on the page dow they go!

Lee - thanks I'll download firefox and see what I can work out from it. I've never actually looked at our sites on firefox tbh which is prob a mistake but I've never really understood who uses it

Finally, I found the screen res stats on google analytics - very enlightening!

Any views greatly appreciated. Thanks again D

[leehack]

Finally, I found the screen res stats on google analytics - very enlightening!

Come on then agree with me or shut me up, i honestly have not looked at any stats in this area for at least a year. It'd be nice to know if i am talking crap as after all it is only my opinion, i have been saying it for quite sometime now though.

[Donna Kempster]

Come on then agree with me or shut me up, i honestly have not looked at any stats in this area for at least a year. It'd be nice to know if i am talking crap as after all it is only my opinion, i have been saying it for quite sometime now though.

I'm agreeing! 50% of our 'customers' have 1024 x 768. 800x600 is less than 5% for us! Thanks for the advice - when I viewed our site 1024 all the pic's distorted!

D

[leehack]

Thanks.
5% wow! it really is dead in the water, i'd have estimated just under 10%. You will probably find that 50% of that 5% never buy online also, so target audience figures are actually increased with that in mind.

I wonder if this 5% of people is the people that surf and then ring up to order, wonder if there is a correlation on that stat.

[acompton]

I've really learnt something about width here. I'm heading for another width re-jig and 3 items-per-row on the section pages. I quite agree that you never know where a customer is going to look for information. Everyone has their own browsing habits.

One question though: are all these 1024-width users actually running their browers full-screen? (A good argument for fluid width).

[leehack]

I guess you can never say for sure, but i am happy to assume that if someone opens a browser window, it will be maximised almost all of the time. A browser is just like Word, Excel, Email etc. i think the natural tendency is to maximise it and see the most possible.

There will always be a minority who don't do this, but i take the stance that i am always catering to give the masses the best experience.

600 - 1900 screen widths is too diverse to offer fluid widths IMO, but it will come in time. Nobody with a 1280 screen ever left a 1024 wide site because it didnt fit their screen, so there is over 90% of people catered for instantly with fixing at 1024. 1024 wide sites on 1280 screens with a dark background looks great IMO anyway.

[TraceyHand]

1024 wide sites on 1280 screens with a dark background looks great IMO anyway.

that's been my project over the last couple of days.
I'll tell ya, it proves to me how little I know LOL
blimmin borders doing things they shouldn't and no doing things they should

(well ok..it's probably me )

[leehack]

Not sure quite what you are faffing with for 2 days, just wrap your whole site template in a div i.e.

<div id="pageWrapper">
Blah de blah gumf here
</div>

And then put this in your stylesheet:

#pageWrapper {
width: 1001px;
margin: 0px auto;
padding: 0px;
vertical-align: top;
border: 1px solid #FFFFFF;
background-color: #FFFFFF;
}

and then style your background color in the theme config within actinic UNLESS you are using Actinic Shared SSL, but i am not going into that as i am calm today.

From memory your site is a table layout, so you can actually apply that ID to the far outer table instead if you wish.

[TraceyHand]

Not sure quite what you are faffing with for 2 days,

well, it didn't take me 2 days to do it LOL
but it did have some unexpected side effects cause by ending up with the outer background in the inner layout where the product lists finished lower than the end of the page (because I didn't have any background specified for the sections etc)

oh, I know what I mean.

oh...and I did end up with extended info pages that had hidden text because the text was the same colour as the background (again, no background specified for the page content previously)

I am still fighting a battle with the border though...so I might try your method to sort that

Thanks

*mumbles...I don't faff....*

[Donna Kempster]

Hurrah ... just managed to get the cart to fit on the same page width as everything else .... and before I move onto our other site and do the whole width thing again with that one .... does anyone have any views on the delivery info and cc card issues raised by alan earlier? Cheers D