brummelandpeacock.com

Vipatech · 9th November 2006, 03:30 PM

Hi, I would appreciate anyones feedback on the following site. We are in the midst of modifying it at the moment but have a look and let me kow your initial thoughts!!

Brummel and Peacock - UK Premier Dog Food Manufacturer - Shop Online for Dry Dog Food - Home

Cheers

L Plates · 9th November 2006, 03:41 PM

First look:
The fixed height on div main is causing an overflow problem. (EDIT viewing in Firefox)

Vipatech · 9th November 2006, 04:07 PM

Thanks for that! I did not notice it as it shows normal in IE but not in Firefox.

Cheers

V

Terra · 9th November 2006, 04:51 PM

In firefox, the products appear at bottom of page & I have to scroll to see them - which means, that visitors using firefox will probably assume the category is empty with no products.

A secure page for the checkout process would be nice so shoppers can enter their address / password etc. on an encrypted page.

Footer / line is wrongly aligned in Firefox - cuts across pages e.g. dog feeding guidelines.

clicking product image opens site/homepage in new browser - not sure why?

Site looks quite different to the usual pet sites - would be interesting to see how that influences sales.

Edith

Adam · 9th November 2006, 04:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Terra

In firefox, the products appear at bottom of page & I have to scroll to see them - which means, that visitors using firefox will probably assume the category is empty with no products.

I did just that.

I like the simplicity of the site. It isn't over crowded with things. Have all the same issues in Firefox which is my main browser.

Ad

percepts · 9th November 2006, 04:59 PM

Grrrrrrr woof woof!

Tim · 9th November 2006, 06:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by percepts

Grrrrrrr woof woof!

I speak Dog. He says:

"It's very simple, but simple can work. It'll be interesting to see how you get on with it as an e-commerce site. I'd also recommend you change the default Joomla! favicon. Can I go for my walk now - you've been laid on that sofa ever since you got home from work. And what about my tea? It wasn't like this when I was a cute little puppy was it? You really paid attention to me back then..."

Vipatech · 9th November 2006, 11:36 PM

Thanks for your responces. We wanted to keep the site simple as possible! This was because the company delivers to your door and the directors said that they get quite alot of elderly folk registering on the site.

I'll keep you informed of how it goes.

Cheers :-) V

Kalki · 2nd December 2006, 04:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Vipatech

Hi, I would appreciate anyones feedback on the following site. We are in the midst of modifying it at the moment but have a look and let me kow your initial thoughts!!

www.brummelandpeacock.com

Cheers

HELLO, I LIKED THE LOGO,WITH CAT AND DOG

...DONT KNW IF ITS A ERROR ON MY END, BUT I TRIED CLICKING ON THE FORUM AND THIS CAME UP:

Quote:

phpBB : Critical Error

Error creating new session

DEBUG MODE

SQL Error : 1016 Can't open file: 'phpbb_sessions.MYI' (errno: 145)

INSERT INTO phpbb_sessions (session_id, session_user_id, session_start, session_time, session_ip, session_page, session_logged_in, session_admin) VALUES ('8db8ec3bf37033d957d8beaba7c225af', -1, 1165077879, 1165077879, '540cafb2', 0, 0, 0)

Line : 187
File : sessions.php

Simon · 2nd December 2006, 05:19 PM

This is an error with the site not with you,
since it is saying "DEBUG MODE" I guess he`s already working on the problem.

VipaTech, if your reading this, then you need to do a repair table, on the table phpbb_sessions, this should fix the problem.
Either use the tools in phpMyAdmin or run the following command on the mysql server after you have selected the correct db

REPAIR TABLE `phpbb_sessions`;

Simon

Vipatech · 4th December 2006, 06:59 PM

Thanks for all the input! We are currently working on getting the forum back up! We will be adding more into the B and P web site very soon so keep watching.

Vger · 5th December 2006, 06:03 PM

I notice that the VirtueMart site says that https can be used for the checkout, but I don't see how this can be done without making the whole site https - and that would be disastrous from a search engine point of view. If I have missed something it would be nice to know where to look.

The reason I never used MamboShop before was because of this issue with ssl not being able to be used for certain areas only, and this is just a repackaging of that programme - so maybe the problem still exists.

Vger

Vipatech · 5th December 2006, 07:45 PM

Hi Vger,

We found that using ssl with virtuemart was a bit buggy so we opted not to use it. All our payments go through Secpay anyway which is secure. I think the only way to get it running through SSL perfectly would be to have the whole shop running through it and as you say it is not too good from a search engine point of view.

You probably could get it working correctly with a few tweaks but we had a time limit on this project and the client wanted to use secpay anyway so we didn't bother looking.

Vger · 5th December 2006, 11:19 PM

Actually I said it would be 'disastrous' to have the whole site under https - because search engines don't rank https pages at all. They will list them but they give them no weighting in terms of points.

This is why I never used Mambo Shop. Customer Account details should be protected by SSL and not submitted unencrypted. I'm afraid that Mambo/Joomla get exploited too often not to use SSL encryption for customer details.

It's a shame because there is definitely a market there for an e-commerce programme which is also a CMS, or vice versa.

Vger