Re: gEDA-user: Off topic: request for a little help

2011-08-18 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Stephen Ecob wrote: > Can they >> be shrunk and still be clear enough not to look silly? That would >> speed up page loading. > > Thanks, I think I'll do that. The only time I got noticable download delays was with the details page for each product. IMHO, it would be best to use the same image

Re: gEDA-user: Off topic: request for a little help

2011-08-18 Thread Andy Fierman
> > Which browser and OS are you using ? > Chrome (with default settings i.e. JS enabled) on WinXP Pro SP3 32 bit. Haven't tried it at home with FF on LMDE 64 bit. :) BTW; just submitted a couple of your pages to: http://validator.w3.org/ Quite a few errors. H. :( Andy ___

Re: gEDA-user: Off topic: request for a little help

2011-08-17 Thread Krzysztof Kościuszkiewicz
2011/8/17 Stephen Ecob : > If you're willing to help then please check out the shop and let me > know if there's anything amiss - would you consider buying the > product, or is there something in the site that would deter you ? From a perspective of Firefox user browsing with disabled JavaScript:

Re: gEDA-user: Off topic: request for a little help

2011-08-17 Thread Stephen Ecob
Hi Andy, On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 6:07 PM, Andy Fierman wrote: > Hi Stephen, > > FWIW, > > It's not clear to me if the prices shown are in $AU or $US and the > option to select one or the other doesn't appear to change the prices > shown on the products or in the cart. Which browser and OS are yo

Re: gEDA-user: Off topic: request for a little help

2011-08-17 Thread Dave McGuire
On 08/16/2011 08:32 PM, Stephen Ecob wrote: Sorry to be off topic, but I can't think of a better place to ask for help. I've recently set up a web shop to sell Xilinx FPGA development boards: www.sioi.com.au Yes, the PCBs were all designed with gEDA :-) The server is here in Australia, and I

Re: gEDA-user: Off topic: request for a little help

2011-08-17 Thread Dave McGuire
On 08/16/2011 11:03 PM, Josh Jordan wrote: Sites that load that slow are usually not from bad ping, which is only 250ms from texas. I think you could be using up your server resources. Sorry if you know this already, try commands "df" to show disk space and "free -m" to show

Re: gEDA-user: Off topic: request for a little help

2011-08-17 Thread Andy Fierman
Hi Stephen, FWIW, It's not clear to me if the prices shown are in $AU or $US and the option to select one or the other doesn't appear to change the prices shown on the products or in the cart. I'm in the UK on a fairly throttled broadband connection and the pictures took some seconds to load. Ho

Re: gEDA-user: Off topic: request for a little help

2011-08-16 Thread Stephen Ecob
Thanks to all who have replied, I've received some really useful feedback. The most commonly repeated comment was that the animated price tags are just plain irritating. I'll put their removal on the slate for the first refresh of the web site ;-) Thanks and best regards, Stephen __

Re: gEDA-user: Off topic: request for a little help

2011-08-16 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Stephen Ecob wrote: > If you're willing to help then please check out the shop and let me > know if there's anything amiss * If you add prices in EUR you'd target an additional continent :-) * 25 USD for a MOSFET made me scratch my head until I read "tube of 75" in the fine print. Why not sell

Re: gEDA-user: Off topic: request for a little help

2011-08-16 Thread Josh Jordan
A cms with ecommerce plugins can take up a lot of ram. -Josh Jordan --- On Tue, 8/16/11, Stephen Ecob wrote: From: Stephen Ecob Subject: gEDA-user: Off topic: request for a little help To: "gEDA user mailing list" Date: Tuesday, August 16, 2011

gEDA-user: Off topic: request for a little help

2011-08-16 Thread Stephen Ecob
Sorry to be off topic, but I can't think of a better place to ask for help. I've recently set up a web shop to sell Xilinx FPGA development boards: www.sioi.com.au Yes, the PCBs were all designed with gEDA :-) The server is here in Australia, and I believe it's virtualised and thus can have a s