Please take a look at my first attempt at an e-commerce site www.bluevinyluk.com, any advice to functionality etc. would be much appreciated :)

1st thought - loose the intro. Most of your visitors will be repeat customers and it'll get annoying for them having to skip it each time.

You should pre-populate the qty field with "1". Saves the customer entering it (90% of the time only 1 copy will be required).

When you recalculate an order the summary section "jumps" out of the page (you loose the header and contents).

On the customer information page "New Customers:" and "Returning Customers:" look like links, but aren't - could be confusing.

I disabled JavaScript and got it to do this:

Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a000d'

Type mismatch: 'cDbl'

/bluevinyluk/ssl/process_order_SF.asp, line 88

(clicked on "new customer" twice)

You're missing the hash before some of your hex color values - color:818181 should be color:#818181 etc.

Need the doctype declaration for HTML W3C compliance.

Big bonus points for hosting RealPlayer though! Saves the customer the nightmare task of navigating real.com! :D

Yeah thats what I was gonna suggest too:cool:;)

BTW, from a 'non expert' point of view looks great

[Edited by jameswrx - 7/15/2003 8:41:35 PM]

Designwise looks fantastic, very impressed.

Just noticed that changing quantites in the order_summary page, then clicking recalc doesnt change the order - just sends you off to the plain order_sf page.

Thanks, hadn't noticed the recalculate bug. :)

Having trouble with the recalculate javascript (i have very little javascript experience).

Basically the Order.asp page is the template with order_sf.asp included (<!--#include file="order_SF.asp" -->), the recalculate button is coded as:

<input type="image" value="" src="<%= C_BTN14 %>" border="0" id="Recalculate" name="Recalculate" onclick="javascript:recalc.value='';" >

The script which recalculates is located in the head section of order.asp:

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE=javascript id="recalc">
<!--
function reCalc()
{
//#400
//#531
var doCalc = document.frmQty.recalc.value;
if(doCalc != "no")
{
document.frmQty.recalc.value ="1";
}
}
//-->
</SCRIPT>

This was taken from some javascript site, so I can't figure out why when it recalculates it takes me to order_sf.asp?

ny ideas?

<input type="image"> will submit the form when clicked on, this is probably what's making it load the page.

Try changing it to a normal <img src="">. You have the JS function assigned to the onclick event so it shouldn't affect that.

<input type="image" value="" src="<%= C_BTN14 %>" border="0" id="Recalculate" name="Recalculate" onclick="javascript:recalc.value='';" >

becomes:

<img src="<%= C_BTN14 %>" border="0" id="Recalculate" name="Recalculate" height="35" width="35" alt="Recalculate" onclick="javascript:recalc.value='';" >

Working now :D thanx.

Thanks for the advice, some real helpful tips which have inproved the site now (IMO) :)

Ade, you need to get out more, even if it means me dragging my fat Southern ass up to your Northern abode and kidnapping you for the night :P

Rik, I like the site a lot btw fella! :)

site doesn't work for me?