Please review my new shopping page

[RaptorRex]

Hi all,

I have begun importing some jewelry from China (where I vacation) and decided to sell online as well. Here is the cart I wrote (Perl). I will setup payment through PayPal over the weekend. Interesting note: since each piece of jewelry is unique I had to write a special shopping system that doesn't show a piece that is in someone else's cart, lest a race condition ensues on the payment page.

http://lingbring.com/store

And click the link to get in. This is just a test site - don't take the prices as set (in case you see something you like )

It does not use cookies. I don't know if that is an issue these days but I thought I should not rely on them.

I'll ask you to review the rest of the site when it is up as well.

Thank you.

 

[{insert name here}]

I really like! Its clean, smooth, and user friendly. The only thing I think that should be done to improve it, would be to put a link for continue shopping down by the paypal link. Other than that, its great, Nice work!

:wave:

 

[aretee]

its nice and simple.... but maybe u should show some of ur products ?? to persuade the viewer in a way ??

 

[RaptorRex]

:p I assume that was a joke. :lol:


Thanks

 

[Nunim]

I guess he didn't click on the link :P

I don't like how you don't keep the style consistant, see the attached pic below.

 

[RaptorRex]

Thanks for that. On Firefox it is consistent. I forgot to test on IE since I never use it (and have blocked its net access completely). Thanks for the reminder - not everyone is an open source buff :D

I just opened the site in Explorer and the problem is an explorer bug. You can see it happen if you drag the verticle scroll bar up and down with your mouse. The white band in the middle will appear and disappear sporadically.

I will not fix this with and IE kludge as I do not believe in subverting standards to accommodate an inferior product. However a different design of the item layout may be ok.

For anyone who would like a compliant (and much more secure) browser then I suggest Firefox, Mozilla, or if you must pay for your software, then Opera (I've never used, but have heard great things).

 

[fisicx]

Getting lots of horizontal scrolling because of your fixed width design.

Agree with you about not compromising standards but since most of your customers will be using IE, it might be good practice to add a couple of hacks to make it work. At the moment on my work computer (IE5.5) it looks awful.

 

[RaptorRex]

IE is really a mess. I will change design to accommodate. IMO it is never acceptable to do a "hack". Because hacks break as soon as MS fixes the problem. Then you have recovering programming to do as IE upgrades come out (try explaining that to a client).

What screen resolution are you using? Because I goofed. I meant to support 800x600 but fudged it and you'll need to horizontally scroll.

I took it offline so I could work on the IE support. I'll also be putting a Firefox bug on all my pages in the future.

Thanks again everyone.