Magento Site

richard · 12th December 2009, 02:24 PM

Hi guys, would appreciate any constructive feedback for our new Magento site.

It will eventually replaceour oscommerce site which has been in production for about 6 years: .::OneVideo::.

New Magento site: Home Page - OneSecurity.

Rich

Vger · 12th December 2009, 02:47 PM

Just a quick look. Too "grey" to be inviting IMO. A bit more colour would not go amiss.

Also, I'm getting secure/insecure content warnings when switching to https pages.

Can't say I blame you for switching to Magento though.

Vger

richard · 12th December 2009, 02:51 PM

Hi Vger, thanks for the feedback.

Grey.... problem is to inject colour we would need someone with some taste to help us out... we are all technical guys...

Where are you seeing the insecure warnings, and in witch browser?

Thanks again!

Rich

richard · 12th December 2009, 02:57 PM

Magento: to be honest its been a nightmare... OneVideo (Oscommerce) took us about 4 months to get live, OneSecurity (Magento) has taken 20 months so far and we are still working out some wrinkles...

Rich

Vger · 12th December 2009, 08:36 PM

Hi, The Browser is IE7, no errors in Firefox, one JS error in Safari for PC.

Re., the colour - try using some dark and light Blues.

Vger

richard · 12th December 2009, 08:42 PM

Hummm I'm on IE8 and can't see the issue..

Rich

Vger · 13th December 2009, 12:00 AM

That's the joy of cross-browser compatibility (or not).

Vger

TygerTyger · 13th December 2009, 08:07 AM

I'm getting an error at this line, saying it is not a function.

Code:

jQuery("#main-photo-slider").codaSlider();

Vger · 14th December 2009, 01:23 PM

Are you calling in a jQuery function before calling in jQuery?

Vger

richard · 17th December 2009, 07:19 AM

I should have cleared that codaSlider issue now...

terraGirl · 19th January 2010, 09:31 PM

Hi Richard - how did you find the switch to Magento? I'm always getting asked whether to choose Magento or Zen Cart, would be great if you could give an idea why you made the switch and how it went.

On the site itself - I really like the codaslider, seems a lot smoother than some of the sliders I've used in the past and stop on mouse-over is a nice feature.

The watermarking on images I find bit heavy.

On the design, yes, it's very grey, but clean and well laid-out. Looks to me like it was done by somebody who cared about how customers used the site and made it very functional.

On the checkout, like the one page checkout, was surprised though that guest checkout was not enabled.

I think it's a solid site, well laid out, very thorough product descriptions, professional. Makes a good impression and instills trust.

richard · 19th January 2010, 09:39 PM

Hi TerraGirl,

The switch has been very painful. Our current cart was OsCommerce and took about 4 months this is 20+ months and counting. In fairness to Magento we have had a bad time with developers (internal) and in fact are currently looking for someone external to step in and provide us with some ongoing support.

Overall Magento is a great platform. In retrospect I would have held off until aprox now and the 1.4 release. Starting again it probably wouldnt take any longer than the OsCommerce site, it was just we were struggling through when Magento was too fresh.

Thanks for the kind words, yep we really do care, and your observations really do represent our values..

Watermarking - desperate to find a way of fixing that in magento..

Rich

terraGirl · 19th January 2010, 09:51 PM

Hi Richard - sorry, should have signed my message - it's Edith

With watermarking I normally do it via batch processing in Adobe before uploading, so not sure about script based solutions.

Interesting to hear your experiences, does validate my opinion that with Magento a good developer is vital, whereas with osCom/Zen you can much more "muddle" through. Not a reflection on your coding skills, just on the Magento structure. Just installing the dam thing on Xampp and upgrading the version turned into a lesson about command-line coding for me ... Still love it, but always recommend with a proviso.

All the best! Edith from TerraNetwork

mark.willis · 20th January 2010, 02:39 PM

Watermarking with ImageMagick on the commandline is really easy. If you want to watermark every image in a directory with the same watermark - it's only going to be 3/4 lines of code in a bash script then set it too run.

Can help if you need it.

Mark