Sales very poor

[shabbie]

DDR states that you should have good contrast between text and background. Your site uses small absolute sized text, if you changed to relative visitors would be able to increase the size of the text.

ive changed the background but i cant seem to find the place to change the font or size of the font, only the colour of the font in design / themes

cheers shabbie
www.siam925.com

[jont]

The font sizes are being declared in the actinic.css stylesheet

[shabbie]

The font sizes are being declared in the actinic.css stylesheet

where do i find that please? my knowledge is only basic...

[jont]

It is in the root of the site1 folder (where all the Act_templates are)

You will see inside the actinic.css various class declarations such as:

.actregular {
size: 10px
}

note that changing the size will affect all instances of the .actregular class.

[shabbie]

It is in the root of the site1 folder (where all the Act_templates are)

You will see inside the actinic.css various class declarations such as:

.actregular {
size: 10px
}

note that changing the size will affect all instances of the .actregular class.

sorry for being dim but i dont understand what a css file is and i certainly cant find one within site 1.... what is the file name im looking for? (in plain english please )

[jont]

A CSS file is a style sheet (Cascading Style Sheet) which is used to format the layout of the page - text styles, sizes, positions etc.

You can see it online at http://www.siam925.com/acatalog/actinic.css

It wil be on your computer at c:\program files\Actinic v7\sites\site 1

or using the template manager in Actinic under Miscellaneous | CSS files

the file name is actinic.css

HTH

[shabbie]

It is in the root of the site1 folder (where all the Act_templates are)

You will see inside the actinic.css various class declarations such as:

.actregular {
size: 10px
}

note that changing the size will affect all instances of the .actregular class.

hi jont
thanks for your patience, ive now found the right file...
what do i need to change in order for the prices to appear bigger / clearer?

[Phoenix164]

I have changed the image for some text and added some delivery, payment and star buy items to the page.

What do you think of the changes?

[fentonalex]

On the alt issue. I understand alt tags should technically be called alt attributes:
http://www.hitguru.net/alt-tags.php
I read something recently also saying that the search engines didn't place as much weight on alt attributes than other aspects of the page such as the page title, h1, h2, body text etc. I think while its worth adding in keywords to alt's where relevant - the purpose of these is to aid accessibility, so I wouldn't go crazy with keywords in alt's personally. There's some more stuff about accessibility / seo etc. on our site for anyone thats interested: http://www.ae.salford.ac.uk/aei/

[RuralWeb]

If you read the "HitGuru" a little further

most engines will read the content of the images ALT attribute to determine the purpose of a graphic. Creating relevant, and keyword rich ALT attributes is essential for any comprehensive SEO campaign.

I would agree with this as SEs DO use them in thier calculations for ranking.

BUT beware alt SPAM is looked for by many of them so dont over do it and remember the accessibility issues.

[saucysal]

Targetted Adwords

Hi! My business got very few hits and sales at first, but it all changed dramatically when I started using Google Adwords. This can be very expensive. The thing is to make the Adword ads very targeted to specific products using only likewise specifically targetted keywords, and have them direct to the shop section where that product can be found. Monitor frequently and adjust the max amount per click for each keyword attached to the ad depending on how successful or not it is. Once you have built up an email database of customers, you can cut back on the Adwords.

Sarah

[fentonalex]

thanks Sal - the client has started an Adwords campaign with specific products in it, so we'll see how they get on.

Its impossible to say how much alt attributes help the SEO of your pages, as nobody knows exactly how the algorithms work. There are conflicting reports about how much these help. Heres the article I mentioned for example:
http://www.marketposition.com/blog/a...levance_o.html
I think as long as the attributes are first and foremostly used for accessibility, then that's the best bet.

Sorry if this is a bit off topic, but it would be good if Actinic allowed you more control over alt attributes etc. - generally speaking the pages that Actinic produces aren't massively accessible, but I think with some template tweaking a blind or other disabled person should be able to find their way around your store.

[RuralWeb]

it would be good if Actinic allowed you more control over alt attributes

Actinic uses the product description to create the alt text, this means that the alt text matches the product and as long as the image shows the product this should be enough to satisfy most people.

Actinic validates at level 1 for accessibility which is better than most out of the box solutions.

[fentonalex]

personally, I don't think this gives enough flexibility, with products it's okay - but, things like images on the brochure pages etc? I'd like to be able to tell a blind person what the image is rather than it just pulling the alt from a different field. You could of course include the image using html, but this isn't ideal - the image feature makes it really easy to include an image.

I presume one of the next incarnations will probably use css rather than tables also. Sorry, this is totally off topic, but a very interesting debate!

[RuralWeb]

If you use image only or image and text then you can put whatever you want in the fragment title as it will not be shown on the website.