Just Launched AC7, custom designed site

[TTMedia]

We just launched an AC7 powered site for Wholesale Sunglasses

We custom wrapped the site with a new template... boy is that time consuming

I would appreciate any feedback, also any notes on how fast the site is loading, and any difficulties or roadblocks you might experience during the shopping experience.

Thanks!

[jmestep]

Very, very nice. Good design implementation and features. I couldn't see any problems.

[Robbie@FireFold]

Speedy and clean.

Only thing I saw were categories with no items in them.

[calvis]

It's fast in Seattle. What hoster are you using in BC?

[Shopping Cart Admin]

Hello,

The thumbnail images in the main basket are browser re-sized images instead of reduced size thumbnails, which don't look as good and slow the load times. The 'pop up' indicator you use to let customers know something has been added to the basket re-appears when you use the back button to return to a page you've added an item to. The site loads quickly and looks good though!

[TTMedia]

Thanks for your responses everyone. I appreciate the comments and feedback.

Robbie, Yah some categories or brands currently have no items in them. Typically they get restocked every couple weeks so we felt we should keep those pages up for search engine purposes. Those pages should still help draw traffic even through they might have a higher exit rate.

Admin, Definitely need to fix the thumbnail issue. We had loaded all the products into the system and had them resized, then realized we missed resizing for that section. Is there an easy way you can suggest to add another thumbnail into to system without having to upload each image all over again.

I've noticed that problem as well with the popup alert. It's a JS call that requires the page to be reloaded in order to confirm the addition of the item to cart. When you hit back, you will notice it will add the item again to your cart. Something we need to fix as well. I found with the default AC7 method, if I was a new customer, I would be confused if an item was added to the cart because it is easy to miss your cart summary box being updated. I'm going to look at making a less intrusive alert, possibly a dhtml layer that pops up and doesn't require the page to be reloaded.

Calvis, The site is hosted with triple8.net on a VPS with 2gb of ram. They are based out of Cali.

[jmestep]

Is there an easy way you can suggest to add another thumbnail into to system without having to upload each image all over again.

You can take the main images from the site via ftp, for example, run them thru a batch resizer. The ones I've used allow you to rename the images according to a pattern, so just rename them what the old thumbnails are and then upload them.

[sullivan]

nice clean site.

I am also trying to implement a similar "view larger image" box.
I see you are using JQuery Thickbox. did you have any issues implementing it?

On our store we are attempting to implement jquery "facebox" which is similar to thickbox. When you click on the link, the popup box work, however when you close it and try to click purchase now, it takes you to the product page. Then click back and then click purchase now again and the purchase works.

Something with the ASP.NET ajax and the jquery but I can't figure it out.

Just wondering if you had the same issue?