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Xtreme2000 -> spin around the block (11/4/2002 8:42:56)

Let see how good I did this time.

http://www.microdragons.com

Thanks,



Charles W Davis -> RE: spin around the block (11/4/2002 10:47:19)

Xtreme2000,

Just a few problems.

When viewing in Opera 6, there are no links at the top of the home page.

When viewing in Opera 6, NN 7.0 and NN 4.76: on the Gallery page, the scrolling images don' t. This makes it necessary to scroll side to side up to five screen widths.

When I first looked at the site in IE 6, it took several minutes (probably seconds) to find the faint little arrowhead that made me realize that there were more images. Terribly hard for my old eyes to spot:



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I have found that in my community of 7,000 folks in an age-restricted community that at 72, my eyes are " middle-aged/"



Xtreme2000 -> RE: spin around the block (11/4/2002 20:42:28)

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Just a few problems.

When viewing in Opera 6, there are no links at the top of the home page.

When viewing in Opera 6, NN 7.0 and NN 4.76: on the Gallery page, the scrolling images don' t. This makes it necessary to scroll side to side up to five screen widths.

When I first looked at the site in IE 6, it took several minutes (probably seconds) to find the faint little arrowhead that made me realize that there were more images. Terribly hard for my old eyes to spot:


Thanks, How can I fix this problem thou. This is the default template for front page. I am trying to get a real good thumb nail gallery going here. But all I can comeup without paying. And I want to try to create the slide show type that will accomidate all browsers.



barry -> RE: spin around the block (11/4/2002 21:31:16)

Hi X,

I like the new home page, but I could not find the shopping cart button either. Maybe you could make a separate button like the free shipping button[:)]

Barry



Peppergal -> RE: spin around the block (11/5/2002 0:50:58)

Main page looks WAY COOL.

On the Online Store page, I noticed some grammar errors:

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or any other instructions you need us to know. So, when you received your animal(s) it will be what you specified. If you do not specify the sex of the animal that you desire, we will send you whatever sex of the animal we have available at the time of purchase to you!


I would change it to " or any other instructions we will need to know. The animal(s) you receive will be according to your specifications. If the sex of the animal is not specified, we will choose the sex depending upon what is available at the time of purchase."

On your Terms page: eliminate the centered text! Use left aligned, and possibly indent it once. Centered text is annoying for anything other than a heading or line or two of text at the most.... and a pet peeve of many Outfronters....

You should break the page up a bit; information on the care and handling of the animals should have its own page. The terms page should mainly be your policies re: shipping, guarantees, returns, etc.


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ON CAPTIVE BRED (C.B.) AND WILD CAUGHT (W.C.) CAPTIVE BRED ANIMALS WILL BE MARKED WITH A " C.B."


How about this: Animals will be marked as to whether they were captive bred (" C.B." ) or wild caught (" W.C." ) (it seems a little clearer to me, but that could just be me...)


Your contact information should be more than just three links to email. That' s really a turn-off. People want to know about you; they want to know how to mail something to you if they wish; they want to know that you' re on the up and up...if you dont' have some basic information posted without making them send you an email for it, they' re not going to trust you.

As to the gallery, perhaps a different format would be better. Or, you could find a javascript; there are some that do slide shows..




Xtreme2000 -> RE: spin around the block (11/8/2002 9:00:02)

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I like the new home page, but I could not find the shopping cart button either. Maybe you could make a separate button like the free shipping button


Fixing the problem as we speak.. Working on the new template & will change it from online store to shopping cart (da!! I should have know, that is why there was no sales ***saying that to myself***)

Thanks..



Xtreme2000 -> RE: spin around the block (11/8/2002 9:09:57)

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Main page looks WAY COOL.


Thanks. [:D]

[quoate]On the Online Store page, I noticed some grammar errors:

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or any other instructions you need us to know. So, when you received your animal(s) it will be what you specified. If you do not specify the sex of the animal that you desire, we will send you whatever sex of the animal we have available at the time of purchase to you!

I would change it to " or any other instructions we will need to know. The animal(s) you receive will be according to your specifications. If the sex of the animal is not specified, we will choose the sex depending upon what is available at the time of purchase."

Fixed it in the jiffy....[:o]

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On your Terms page: eliminate the centered text! Use left aligned, and possibly indent it once. Centered text is annoying for anything other than a heading or line or two of text at the most.... and a pet peeve of many Outfronters....


Opps!!! forgot about that, so use to putting everything in the middle.. Done deal thou.

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You should break the page up a bit; information on the care and handling of the animals should have its own page. The terms page should mainly be your policies re: shipping, guarantees, returns, etc.


Will get right into it as soon as I' m done with the other fixes

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quote:

ON CAPTIVE BRED (C.B.) AND WILD CAUGHT (W.C.) CAPTIVE BRED ANIMALS WILL BE MARKED WITH A " C.B."

How about this: Animals will be marked as to whether they were captive bred (" C.B." ) or wild caught (" W.C." ) (it seems a little clearer to me, but that could just be me...)


I thought I did that .. Oh well guess I missed that one too.

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Your contact information should be more than just three links to email. That' s really a turn-off. People want to know about you; they want to know how to mail something to you if they wish; they want to know that you' re on the up and up...if you dont' have some basic information posted without making them send you an email for it, they' re not going to trust you.


Thnks I will put it in as soon as we find out where the mail going to go to.

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As to the gallery, perhaps a different format would be better. Or, you could find a javascript; there are some that do slide shows..


Working on that issue as well. See if this is better for the gallery page
http://www.microdragons.com/DUgallery/



Peppergal -> RE: spin around the block (11/8/2002 22:39:38)

New Gallery:[:)][:)][:)]



Xtreme2000 -> RE: spin around the block (11/9/2002 10:28:07)

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New Gallery:

[;)][:D] Thanks you!!!



Kitka -> RE: spin around the block (11/9/2002 19:08:25)

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See if this is better for the gallery page


On my monitor, the bright green links on the grey cell background are difficult to read. I need to hover the mouse over them to read them clearly.

Kitka



Xtreme2000 -> RE: spin around the block (11/10/2002 11:26:09)

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On my monitor, the bright green links on the grey cell background are difficult to read. I need to hover the mouse over them to read them clearly.


Thank you dearly. Will get that fix as soon as I have the chance.

[:D][:)]



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