Please Critique our Little Orange Toybox eShop (Business Ed')

[Nigel]

Hi All,

I'm in the final stages of creating our online toyshop using Daily's eShop Business Edition.

You can view the site here: Little Orange Toybox

I would be extremely grateful if you would take a look around and "kick the tires" so to speak, and let me know what good and whats not! Please don't be afraid of hurting my feelings, be honest.

There is a fair bit of CSS involved and the site does work better with Google Chrome, Firefox & Safari. Explorer does affect the search bar in the top center of the screen, but I'm working on it and any advice would be welcomed 

Like Jane at Be-Charmed, I have used just about every element of the eShop offering on our site, fully customising it from a basic template, however unlike Jane we currently have only a few items on the site and we are working to get a few hundred done by the end of next week.

Thanks in advance
Nigel

[Alexie]

Hi,

I and the rest of the support guys have taken a look at the eShop and think it's great. Nice bright colours and easy to navigate.

We were wondering if it would be OK to add to our list of existing customer eShops to use as examples for new customers.

Alexie

[LeeO]

Hi Nigel,

The site looks great, having a quick look at the CSS I think the issue with IE is the "input class" on the Search submit button which IE is pulling as the little magnifying glass icon, try overriding it from "Icon SearchIcon" to something else.

Lee

[Nigel]

We were wondering if it would be OK to add to our list of existing customer eShops to use as examples for new customers.

Alexie

Hi Alexie,

By all means, be my guest & thanks 

Kind Regards,
Nigel

[Nigel]

The site looks great, having a quick look at the CSS I think the issue with IE is the "input class" on the Search submit button which IE is pulling as the little magnifying glass icon, try overriding it from "Icon SearchIcon" to something else.

Lee

Hi Lee, yes I had the same idea, but although it works in all other browsers unfortunately not IE (any version).
My replacement for the original css was...

.SearchIcon {
   width: 60px;
   height:22px;
   border: 0px;
   padding: 0 0 0 0px;
   text-align: left;
   background: url(http://littleorangetoybox.co.uk/WebRoot/StoreDaily/Shops/eshop427757/MediaGallery/images/search_button.gif) !important;
}

Still head scratching, 
Nigel

[LeeO]

Hi Nigel,

Bizarre I just tryed this in my shop and it works fine, though I just put the CSS in the advanced head area under general settings. I see you're calling in a seperate CSS file (lofb.css) which it looks like IE is ignoring. Try pasting the CSS in the advanced head and see if it works.

Lee

[Nigel]

HI Lee,

Tried the direct approach as you suggested, but didn't solve my search button prob, now i get the original icon with my button in the bg     It did cure the search entry box size tho   

If you get a chance to revisit, please do and see what I mean.

Apologies to the other members, this has turned into a bit of a conversation and slightly off-topic but you've got to admit it's better than Coronation Street 4 times outta 5 

Nigel

[LeeO]

Hi Nigel,

Try the following, note the addition of 'position' and 'z-index':

.SearchIcon {
   width: 60px;
   height:22px;
   border: 0px;
   padding: 0 0 0 0px;
   text-align: left;
   position:relative;
   background: transparent url(http://littleorangetoybox.co.uk/WebRoot/StoreDaily/Shops/eshop427757/MediaGallery/images/search_button.gif)!important;
   z-index:999;
}
 
Lee

[Nigel]

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!    I give up.

[be-charmed-jewellery]

Well done, I think it's brill.  Glad you're all working hard to customise the design - it helps to see others try things out.  I might have to ask you some questions.  I'm trying to get my menus to put the things I want in them rather than what the eShop wants. Tricky, but you seem to have mastered a good top navigation, whilst keeping the left navigation looking different... but I can see that you have replicated some of the categories, but it's not immediately obvious to the user.... so good..... I might try something similar. 

Wish we could have a bit more choice, eg. css navigation so that we can use button backgrounds to take it away from the boring text with a little square option (the other choices are naff).  Wish they'd give us a few more icon sets to choose from (not difficult surely) and maybe just one or two more choices on the detailed product layout, because that's not ideal. 

Looks professional. x

Jane Haselden
www.gelcreative.co.uk
Web design

[jay]

Very nice site Nigel, would love to pick your brains bout it one day.

[be-charmed-jewellery]

Me too.   I keep coming back to your shop Nigel for ideas.

Jane
www.be-charmed.co.uk
www.amore-baci.co.uk