my own creation

[zaxxon]

i am completely new to thisplace and thought i'd start by showing (*off*) my site.
i am no designer or coder and my skills are basically cut and paste and limited know-how of turning on photoshop notepad and dreamweaver.
since i couldnt afford a good site i made my own and am submitting it here for your critique. It is based on an open source skeleton that i modified with differant additions, css, and some trial and error code pasting

please be as brutaly honest as you wish with your comments but also give direction on how to repair what needs repairing.

thanks

Ron

 

[mneylon]

Images are way too big. You need to create and use proper thumbnails

 

[zaxxon]

Images are way too big. You need to create and use proper thumbnails

can you point me to where i can get info on how to do it?

 

[mneylon]

You can do it with any graphics package .... All you need to do is resize copies of the images to fit with whatever you are doing

 

[effect]

honestly, if you value your business, hire someone to do that site. Aesthetically so much is wrong, coding isn't perfect either.

 

[louie]

.......................
i am no designer or coder and my skills are basically cut and paste and limited ....................
thanks

Ron

You got that right.
You'll be better off getting somebody to design it for you with a proper CMS system.
I dislike Oscommerce. Too complicated and not easy to customise.

 

[babyboy808]

Maybe have a tagline stating what your business does in the header.

 

[zaxxon]

Maybe have a tagline stating what your business does in the header.

yeah - its 'in the pipeline'

blcakknight, at the risk of sounding emmensly stupid, i still do not understand what you mean exactly. do you mean the images are too big dimension wise or KB sizewise?
if its KB size- i tryed reducingit with photoshop and jpeg pro but the quality of the image is very much reduced below 70KB, i am sure i havent got it right, since i have seen other images on webpages that are so much smaller, but do not know how to achieve a high enough quality with that lo KB size
any pointers there ?

am also not exactly sure what you mean by thumbnail. do you mean the image ? or what?

 

[louie]

try using 50 or 60% quality.
The text inside images - use soft edges.
modify the website to get thumbnails created for small images.
Also some of them are still png, which is alright for small icons but not really for products.

 

[babyboy808]

Your images are jagged and look a bit unprofessional... They are bigger than the required size for the thumbnail.

Take for example, your thumbnail (Nod32) this image's size is 422 x 450px. But you have used the width and height attributes to constrain the size to 85 x 90px

Use a graphics package to edit them to the required size

 

[zaxxon]

modify the website to get thumbnails created for small images.

how do i do that ?

Your images are jagged and look a bit unprofessional... They are bigger than the required size for the thumbnail.

Take for example, your thumbnail (Nod32) this image's size is 422 x 450px. But you have used the width and height attributes to constrain the size to 85 x 90px

yes i saw that and was hoping to find a way to change that. the problem is that if i get a smaller image there, then when a customer clicks 'click to enlarge' there is no enlargement.

 

[babyboy808]

Create a thumbnail and keep original size. when the user clicks on the thumbnail image, display the full size.

 

[louie]

you are using a ready made package. Look for adds-on on their website.
Might find something to do exactly "what it says on the tin".

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