New site live - let me know your thoughts

[Troy]

Well we've finally gone live

let me know your thought on http://www.elitex.co.uk

Regards

[pinbrook]

Its a basic site using Exec theme, no frills etc etc.,

I wanted to find out how you process payments so I could be check your company out for credibility , I clicked on terms and conditions top right and got the following error message -

Not Found
The requested URL /acatalog/<span style='font-size: 10px;color: was not found on this server.

[Duncan Rounding]

Looks good - two things after a very brief look:
1. The Terms link is not working from your acatalog pages on top right (ok on your brochure pages and on bottom of acatalog pages)
2. Your product images ahve a blue line around them - try adding border=0 to your image links.

[Troy]

Its a basic site using Exec theme, no frills etc etc.,

I wanted to find out how you process payments so I could be check your company out for credibility , I clicked on terms and conditions top right and got the following error message -

EEK!
That was working the other day, although i changed the colour of the font.
Seems i've wrecked the code somewhere!
Thanks Jo

[Troy]

Looks good - two things after a very brief look:
1. The Terms link is not working from your acatalog pages on top right (ok on your brochure pages and on bottom of acatalog pages)
2. Your product images ahve a blue line around them - try adding border=0 to your image links.

Good idea

I used the coding from this site to automatically create thumbs - will change the border to 0

Regards

More comments anyone?

[Troy]

Looks good - two things after a very brief look:
1. The Terms link is not working from your acatalog pages on top right (ok on your brochure pages and on bottom of acatalog pages)
2. Your product images ahve a blue line around them - try adding border=0 to your image links.

Just looked at the code which i think is causing the border, but can't see where to change it:

// START Create a thumbnail image t_ProductImageFileName
$sOriginalImageName = '<actinic:variable encoding="perl" name="ProductImageFileName" selectable="false" />';
$sThumbImageName = 't_' . $sOriginalImageName;
$image = @imagecreatefromjpeg($sOriginalImageName); /* Attempt to open */
if (!$image)
{ /* See if it failed */
echo "<br><font color=red>Thumbnail creation error opening: $sOriginalImageName </font>";
}
else
{
// Get new dimensions
$width = imagesx($image);
$height = imagesy($image);
$t_width = 80;
$t_height = $height * ($t_width / $width);

// Resample
$thumbimage = imagecreatetruecolor($t_width, $t_height);
imagecopyresampled($thumbimage, $image, 0, 0, 0, 0, $t_width, $t_height, $width, $height);
if ( ! imagejpeg($thumbimage, $sThumbImageName) )
{
echo "<font color=red>Thumbnail image creation failed: $sThumbImageName </font><br>";
}
else
{
echo "<br><img src=\"$sThumbImageName\" width=\"$t_width\" height=\"$t_height\" />";
}
}
// END Create a thumbnail image t_ProductImageFileName


Any ideas where i should be changing?

Regards

[parklifeclothes]

Extended info

Your extended information pages could do with being resized to fit both the images and information without having to scroll/enlarge.


Darron

[fleetwood]

The content of this site is based on sources that we can consider as reliable, but for which we cannot guarantee the accuracy, integrity or quality. The information shown should be considered as an indication and may be changed at any point and without any prior notice

Whilst I understand that you are covering yourself, as a customer this wouldn't inspire me with any great confidence

[Troy]

Whilst I understand that you are covering yourself, as a customer this wouldn't inspire me with any great confidence

Hi there,

Good point i suppose

We get our content from the supplier, whose data may or may not be accurate.
I suppose re-wording would be a better option!

Thanks for the thought!

[NormanRouxel]

Just looked at the code which i think is causing the border, but can't see where to change it:

Woohoo. I wrote that as a demo / exercise of the inbuilt PHP. I didn't know anyone was using it.

Change

echo "<br><img src=\"$sThumbImageName\" width=\"$t_width\" height=\"$t_height\" />";

to

echo "<br><img border=0 src=\"$sThumbImageName\" width=\"$t_width\" height=\"$t_height\" />";

to get rid of that border.

[NormanRouxel]

You should make the default size of the popup window bigger (Settings / Site Options / Extended Info). Poor customer will have to drag it bigger each time.

[Troy]

Woohoo. I wrote that as a demo / exercise of the inbuilt PHP. I didn't know anyone was using it.

Change

echo "<br><img src=\"$sThumbImageName\" width=\"$t_width\" height=\"$t_height\" />";

to

echo "<br><img border=0 src=\"$sThumbImageName\" width=\"$t_width\" height=\"$t_height\" />";

to get rid of that border.

Thanks Norman!! - very nice addition to the software - well done for writing it!!

Changed and uploaded

[NormanRouxel]

I've edited my original post about this tweak and asked Santa Chris to amend the Advanced Guide.

[Troy]

You should make the default size of the popup window bigger (Settings / Site Options / Extended Info). Poor customer will have to drag it bigger each time.

Done!
Although some of the info on some items means that you do have to scroll,
The vast majority now open up in a big enough box

Cheers for that - i'd have been scratching my head looking for where to edit it!!
(not familiar yet with this software!)

Regards

[parklifeclothes]

Hi there,

Good point i suppose

We get our content from the supplier, whose data may or may not be accurate.
I suppose re-wording would be a better option!

Thanks for the thought!

Personally this disclaimer is a real off put, it left me puzzled, and I think many possible sales could be lost down that alone, have you looked at how your competion words their sites?. I would either re-word it or put it in the terms and condtions. Also on many of the extended info pop ups they are still showing in a very deep but narrow box.

Regards