Critique of shopping site

This site was built using oscommerce. It is a shopping site, this is the
second site under the domain name. Please post feedback, kind or harsh.
http://www.ravenview.net

GLCustoms wrote:

This site was built using oscommerce. It is a shopping site, this is the
second site under the domain name. Please post feedback, kind or harsh.
http://www.ravenview.net

Code:

- Apparently you serve the site by using a META refresh to send the actual
site code.
- You extremely pissed me off by disabling the RMB.
- Your code is a mess. And it looks like is has another complete page
embedded in it.
I presume you did the above to prevent people from seeing your code or
copying images. Your effort, as are all such efforts, is a dismal failure.

Design:
- You use tables for layout. Bad!
- The layout itself is inflexible; it does not adapt to user preferences.
For instance, I have a minimum font size set for my browser. This makes
your navigation look like crap, and causes various headings to overflow
into other columns.
- The link design is... random.
1. You changed the default link style to remove the underline. So
finding a link becomes an easter egg hunt.
2. The links at the top and the headings below look the same so I
thought the headings were links until I tried to click on them. Surprise!
3. Another link color for navigation. (Not necessarily bad.)
4. Yet another link color for image captions.
So now I have at least three text colors that may or may not represent
a link.
- The body text is center-justified. There is no reasonable justification
for doing that.

Other:
- Typos are inexcusable. For instance, it is "collectibles", not
"collectible's".

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"Jim Moe" <jmm-list.AXSPAMGN (AT) sohnen-moe (DOT) com> wrote

GLCustoms wrote:
This site was built using oscommerce. It is a shopping site, this is the
second site under the domain name. Please post feedback, kind or harsh.
http://www.ravenview.net

Code:
- Apparently you serve the site by using a META refresh to send the actual
site code.
- You extremely pissed me off by disabling the RMB.

Please explian RMB

- Your code is a mess. And it looks like is has another complete page
embedded in it.

You could say it is,

I presume you did the above to prevent people from seeing your code or
copying images. Your effort, as are all such efforts, is a dismal failure.

No it was the only way I could get things to work the way I wanted in the
osCommerse shop, I am working on a better way

Design:
- You use tables for layout. Bad!

Only script and background images are in the tables.

- The layout itself is inflexible; it does not adapt to user preferences.
For instance, I have a minimum font size set for my browser. This makes
your navigation look like crap, and causes various headings to overflow
into other columns.

thats osCommerce for you

- The link design is... random.
1. You changed the default link style to remove the underline. So
finding a link becomes an easter egg hunt.
2. The links at the top and the headings below look the same so I
thought the headings were links until I tried to click on them. Surprise!

Will definitly look into this

3. Another link color for navigation. (Not necessarily bad.)
4. Yet another link color for image captions.
So now I have at least three text colors that may or may not represent
a link.
- The body text is center-justified. There is no reasonable justification
for doing that.

Noted

Other:
- Typos are inexcusable. For instance, it is "collectibles", not
"collectible's".

Damn. Your dead right .

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GLCustoms wrote:

Please explian RMB

Right Mouse Button.

Obviously a right-handed bias since it is the Left Mouse Button for
left-handed mice. Better would be Outside Mouse Button.

I presume you did the above to prevent people from seeing your code or
copying images. Your effort, as are all such efforts, is a dismal failure.

No it was the only way I could get things to work the way I wanted in the
osCommerse shop, I am working on a better way

Your site has shown me to avoid osCommerce like the plague.

I looked at the osCommerce demo. I do not see the incredible mess your
site shows. I suspect it is not only an osCommerce problem.

Design:
- You use tables for layout. Bad!

Only script and background images are in the tables.

You've not seen the generated code then. Tables are used for all

layout, even the most trivial parts.


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