Site Review: RSPB Optics

[TimBob]

My first attempt at using Actinic with little knowledge of the software or web editing come to mention it. Deadline was tight on this one but hope to learn the whole process a little better now and maybe even take one of the Actinic courses if they are worth it.

Any feedback welcomed.

http://www.rspboptics.com/

Cheers

[Cheapprices4u]

im no expert but i like it id be happy with it thats for sure

thats my first impression anyway

hope it does well

[jont]

Very good for a first website. As you are wanting feedback:

Product text is a little on the small side (not everyone carries a pair of binos around for enlarging :) ) and the add to cart button is a little out of style with the rest of the site.

May be worth making the shipping costs known before adding to the cart

[Duncan Rounding]

Nice site.
For items of that price range I would like to see a phone number and address prominently displayed on the site as well as some safe shopping affiliation of some sort perhaps.

[jont]

a phone number and address prominently displayed on the site as well as some safe shopping affiliation of some sort perhaps.

Site confidence is lacking. I would be tempted to make more of a play on the RSPB side of things .. bigger logo, official site (assuming it is) etc as this is a very strong selling point and a big brand name in the UK.

[pinbrook]

Whilst the extra images are a nice touch, i found the experience disapointing. The images are very similar not enough defination to really tell the difference in them and the next/prev links are hard to find.

going back and forth was painful until i discovered the next/prev link quite by accident

[TimBob]

Thanks everyone thats the kind of thing I was after.

[TimBob]

Whilst the extra images are a nice touch, i found the experience disapointing. The images are very similar not enough defination to really tell the difference in them and the next/prev links are hard to find.

going back and forth was painful until i discovered the next/prev link quite by accident

Yep thats a fair point I need to go through the site and label all the images so the different models can be easily distinguished. Have to agree about the next and previous tabs I didn't see them for ages but i like the effect of the lightbox (nice one Norman) so it won me over.

[TimBob]

Nice site.
For items of that price range I would like to see a phone number and address prominently displayed on the site as well as some safe shopping affiliation of some sort perhaps.

Yep thats one thing that I plan to do, presume there are no restrictions about adding card logos if you can accept them?

[Duncan Rounding]

I wasn't referring to card logos - I think these days it's assumed that all online shops can accept most cards. I was thinking more along te lines of Safebuy or Safe Shopper etc.

[NormanRouxel]

I've posted here (http://www.drillpine.biz/forums/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=310&p=1111)a way to convert my Lightbox to GreyBox (which has clearer Prev / Next links).

However I see you're using my Tabber as well so you'd need to do an extra step after switching to GreyBox.

Look in your overall layout for the line

function afterpageload(){<actinic:variable name="OnLoadScript" value="PreloadImages" />}
And change to

function afterpageload(){setallpanes();<actinic:variable name="OnLoadScript" value="PreloadImages" />}
Best backup and Snapshot before trying this.

[TimBob]

I've posted here (http://www.drillpine.biz/forums/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=310&p=1111)a way to convert my Lightbox to GreyBox (which has clearer Prev / Next links).

However I see you're using my Tabber as well so you'd need to do an extra step after switching to GreyBox.


Thanks Norman
I tried the GreyBox and whilst its a bit more practical with navigation I prefer the LightBox look and feel and the position of the title (and also a few issues with the tabber functionality).

I will edit the next and prev gif's and see if it makes it a bit more obvious.

Thanks again for all the comments

Tim

[TimBob]

Right, made a few amendments to the lightbox so things should be a little clearer (I hope).

Next and Prev buttons are now constant rather than on hover and changed colour to make then stand out a little more.

http://www.rspboptics.com/acatalog/el.html

Also added some obvious contact numbers with some extra RSPB branding on the home page, still some more to do.

http://www.rspboptics.com/ (just proving that I do listen)

[NormanRouxel]

Next and Prev buttons are now constant rather than on hover and changed colour to make then stand out a little more.Tim,

How did you do that? That would be useful. I could make it an option in Actinic.

[NormanRouxel]

AHAH! Found it. I'll post it on my support forum.

[TimBob]

Tim,

How did you do that? That would be useful. I could make it an option in Actinic.


I changed the following in the Lightbox.css

#prevLink { left: 0; float: left;}
#nextLink { right: 0; float: right;}
#prevLink:hover, #prevLink:visited:hover { background: url(li_prevlabel.gif) left 15% no-repeat; }
#nextLink:hover, #nextLink:visited:hover { background: url(li_nextlabel.gif) right 15% no-repeat; }

to
#prevLink { left: 0; float: left;background: url(li_prevlabel.gif) left 5% no-repeat;}
#nextLink { right: 0; float: right;background: url(li_nextlabel.gif) right 5% no-repeat;}
#prevLink:hover, #prevLink:visited:hover { background: url(li_prevlabel.gif) left 5% no-repeat; }
#nextLink:hover, #nextLink:visited:hover { background: url(li_nextlabel.gif) right 5% no-repeat; }


I also change the position of the buttons so they were a bit higher and out of the main image area by changing the % value (was 15%, I change to 5%)

[TimBob]

AHAH! Found it. I'll post it on my support forum.

Boooo!! that was my moment of glory and you beat me to it:p