Firesales.com.au

[Guest]

Firesales.com.au was using oscommerce, but after I stumbled onto CCart awhile ago I reckon it is great.

So now what do you think of my site.

BE AWARE THIS IS A LIVE SITE AND ANY PURCHASE IS BILLED AND DELIVERED

Firesales store entry

[Guest]

Here is my 2 cents;

1. There is some blue at the bottom of each of your boxes. Send me admin/settings.inc.php and I will fix this for you

2. Your header needs a little bit of work. Its not bad, but could be better.

Remember, you said you wanted my opinion!

[Guest]

Hi. Are you running 800 X 600? I'm using 1024 resolution and your store looks like it has two large, bare margins.

But I do like your logo and your colour scheme., it'sery easy to get on with. :)

[Guest]

Gday all

Yes I am 800 x 600 on my home PC. eyesight not as good as used to be.

I havent worked out yet the correct way to get cart to auto resize to screen res people are viwing on.

Will find it in forums on day.

[Guest]

intresting site,just the res thats the problem other than thatgood work!

[Guest twisted]

Yes I am 800 x 600 on my home PC. eyesight not as good as used to be.

ANd that is exactly the reason why there are still a lot of people on 800 x 600 ... my wife falls into that category.

Unfortunately, and this has always been the case, but you HAVE to design for the lowest common denominator.

Fortunately, the days of the 640 x 480 resolution have long gone, but until 800 x 600 is no longer a popular screen res, and it always will be for the millions who still have a 15" monitor, then THAT'S who you have to design for.

Not all designs are suited to a 100% width so that they expand to fill the screen. Because this one does not diverge far [read 0] from a default cubecart...it would readily expand to 100%. I would first recommned doing something about the header background behind the search box and top tabs though.

[Guest twisted]

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TO SET THE STORE WIDTH TO 100%

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In header.inc.php, at line 36, you currently have:

<form action ="search.php" method="post">

       <div align="center">

<table width=800' height='100%' align='center' border='0' cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0'>

[Actually, i'm a little surprised that this -  <table width=800'  - isn't giving you errors (incomplete quotes).]

Change this to:

<form action ="search.php" method="post">

        <table width='100%' height='100%' align='center' border='0' cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0'>

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TO CHANGE THE HEADER BACKGROUND

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Also in header inc, at line 68 is this:

<td align='left' height="80" width="100%" background="<?echo"$site_url/";?>images/store_logo_bg.jpg"><a href="<?echo"$site_url/index.php";?>"><img src="<?echo"$site_url/";?>images/store_logo.gif" alt="<?echo"$la_powered_by_cc";?>" border="0"></a></td>

<td align="right" valign="bottom" width='220' height="80" background="<?echo"$site_url/";?>images/store_logo_bg.jpg">

You have changed "images/store_logo.gif" correctly to "images/firesales.jpg" so that your own header image shows up.

To change the background, the first thing you need to do is make a new background. This only needs to be a narrow image, as it is tiled across the page to fill the available space.

Create a matching image to use as the background and make it say, 3 to...whatever...40 px wide. I would say that your header image "firesales.jpg" is about 100 px tall, so make it 102 px high and save it as "store_logo_bg.jpg". It needs to be at least as tall as your own header logo image, or you get the ugly tiled top as you now have showing...thats why I suggest a couple of pixels taller than your header image.

Upload it to your images folder, overwritng the existing store_logo_bg.jpg.



If you just want to use a single color for the background, change the above piece of code to:

<td align='left' height="80" width="100%" bgcolor="#E8E8E8"><a href="<?echo"$site_url/index.php";?>"><img src="<?echo"$site_url/";?>images/store_logo.gif" alt="<?echo"$la_powered_by_cc";?>" border="0"></a></td>

<td align="right" valign="bottom" width='220' height="80" bgcolor="#E8E8E8">

where #E8E8E8 would be the background color of your choice. You would, of course, need to change this to whatever you wanted to use [e8e8e8 is a pale gray]

HTH

[Guest]

Thanks guys for the input and comments

1 thing twisted changed the search backgroung but when changed the following to get size 100% I got 4 lots of grey header, took up half the page

******************************

TO SET THE STORE WIDTH TO 100%

******************************

In header.inc.php, at line 36, you currently have:

CODE 

<form action ="search.php" method="post">

      <div align="center">

<table width=800' height='100%' align='center' border='0' cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0'>

[Actually, i'm a little surprised that this - <table width=800' - isn't giving you errors (incomplete quotes).]

Change this to:

CODE 

<form action ="search.php" method="post">

      <table width='100%' height='100%' align='center' border='0' cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0'>

Save, close and upload