AbleCommerce Shopping Cart Software

Finally it's where we feel it can go....so we did!

http://WWW.Diamondandgoldoverstocks.com

Hello Jim,

Congratulations on the site launch. One very important suggestion, reduce the image sizes! Your home page is nearly 2mb in size.

http://www.diamondandgoldoverstocks.com/ (1960358 bytes)

Here's a helpful little tool. On a site like yours I'd try to keep the size below 200k to encourage shoppers to browse around and buy.

http://www.websiteoptimization.com/serv ... ze/wso.php

Thank you for choosing AbleCommerce!

Thanks for the input Mike.
I'll for sure look into that. As you know, this is non-stop adjusting/readjusting.

Hello Jim,

Yes I totally understand. Good decision makers, make their decision quickly and change it slowly. Poor decision makers, make their decision slowly and change it rapidly.

Looks good.

Only thing I noticed off is the margin on the left is different than the one on the right.

Thanks.
Yeah, The one thing I was/am struggling with is getting it to size proportionately with the screen size. It wasn't adjusting the margin if I went from 1280 to 1024 for instance. So I'm at the moment doing it that way.
I'm a windows desktop guy for the most part, so learning all the css etc under fire!

So is the blonde chick on the home page single??

I can arrange an introduction for say...a Diamond Necklace?

CZ or real??

Mike,

Thanks for the tool. I've been using something similar, but it's nice to see options.

Shopping Cart Admin wrote:On a site like yours I'd try to keep the size below 200k to encourage shoppers to browse around and buy.

I've gotten my site down in the 380K range I think getting to the 200K size is very difficult given AC7's footprint. The biggest hitters are usually the images which we can work with, but the second heaviest is javascript. The javascript portion alone is over 100K and the CSS for the (almost) default theme weighs over 93K. Any chance that the javascript can go on a diet?

Regards,

rdv

Hello Charles,

Are you using a fly out menu? That is just about the only thing that will generate that big of Javascript. I don't count the size of the CSS since it's cached by the browser on the first load.

You can get the page to center in the browser by tweaking the body in the css file -the important thing is the margin. Starting clockwise, the 0's are for top and bottom of page and the auto is for left and right.
body
{ width:900px;
padding: 0 10px 0 10px;
margin: 0 auto 0 auto;
background:RGB(138,122,151);
font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
}

I think this is better (I can't remember where in the forum I found it). After struggling with centering for quite some time and playing with margins, I got a little smarter and found the right term or phrase to search for. This is what I use based on that "other" forum entry.

body
{
width:980px;
margin: 0 auto;
padding:0px;
}

(colors and images have been removed to simplify the post)

(actually it may be the same as what Judy has if I understood css better )