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by **Daniel** » Mon Apr 27, 2009 3:16 am

New web site design. What do you think?

by **molumen** » Mon Apr 27, 2009 4:07 am

Great, a lot better and clearer than the previous one. Now opencart.com needs a new logo (I can make one if needed, I'm a graphic designer).

by **Daniel** » Mon Apr 27, 2009 10:41 am

yeah please try to make one. I'm not a graphic designer.

Maybe we should have a competition.

by **obiw** » Mon Apr 27, 2009 1:11 pm

Nice, a lot better! A competition sounds good.

It would be nice to have some nice cases from users, so you can see the possibility's in design.

by **JNeuhoff** » Mon Apr 27, 2009 1:44 pm

Looks great, well done.

I noticed the contributions area finally only contains Opencart 1.x specific addons, which is good.

by **MarkF** » Mon Apr 27, 2009 11:08 pm

Sorry to spoil the party, but have you looked at the new site in Safari 3?

Regards
Mark

by **phpuk** » Mon Apr 27, 2009 11:16 pm

Hi Mark,

Just tried it using Safari ver 3.2.2 and it appears to work fine for me.

Is there something in particular that isn't working?

by **iloveopencart** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 4:35 am

I just looked at the new site in Safari 4 Beta and didn't see any problems either.

By the way, great job on the new site. It's much better and fresher. One suggestion: put the curent version somewhere on the front page... such as on the download button.

by **mylane** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 5:54 am

I like the new website, I have visited the site last week and read some of the reviews and the community forum. I'm an oscommerce's user, but opencart really interest me and now I'm making one using this program.

I just installed it to my server after reading and searching for other opensource ecommerce program...I just have one question, I'm trying to look for the SEO URLS module to rewrite my URL. It cannot be found.

by **obiw** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 11:47 am

Yes, I agree!!!! Some SEO module's would be nice, nice clean URL and google sitemap. Is there someone working on that? It would be a nice to have

by **Daniel** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 11:55 am

i think you guys only know one thing about SEO which is the url's.

by **mylane** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 12:08 pm

I know stuff about SEO, I know it just not about URL. I just want to have a url_rewrite, I have seen website using opencart that was able to do it. Last time I checked it was in the contribution page. so I was looking for it earlier.

by **obiw** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 12:56 pm

There are already a lot of good SEO stuff in OpenCart. Thats why it's a nice to have and not a need to have. Clean URL's look nice as well

by **Daniel** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 1:44 pm

1. The problem is these urls look nice, but don't offer any search engine optimisation. Google has said many times in its blogs that it does not give higher ranking to urls with keywords int hem or SEO.
2. They don't work very well. There are no big name web sites using seo url's. Sure there are some sites with text in the url but they also have ? & and =.
3. There is a standard format for writing URL's that works with the built in functions of javascript and php.
4. If you have more than one product with the same name that will cause problems.
5. This type of feature is fine for bolgs but when you are taking about categories, products manufacturers, pages, sort order etc.. things fall over very quickly.

Also look how magento does theirs.

category_1/category_2/

then if you click product and it changes to:

product_1.html

it should change to:

category_1/category_2/product_1.html

by **Qphoria** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 2:58 pm

OpenCart zero manages it ok. Though there can be a problem with 2 products of the same name, but its easy to just include the product id as part of the name, keeping it unique.

by **tommix** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 3:25 pm

Daniel wrote:New web site design. What do you think?

It's way better, congrats

I think it will attract more people. It feels so fresh and easy..just like openCart is

by **Daniel** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 5:08 pm

Ok since everyone keeps wanting the SEO URL's I'm putting them back. But one question what pages do we want to be SEO? I think just the categories and produtcs should be fine.

by **phpuk** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 6:32 pm

Hi,

I am interested to discover why people think that SEO url's are important in todays web site design and implementation.

In my experience SEO url's are potentially a lot of work for very very little gain these days.

They also open a potential can of worms when modifications are required to the core code to facilitate new functionality.

The search engines don't need them as most of the algorithms work on the page content these days so the only benefits would be that the url is pretty and so a visitor could try and remember the url when they need to look for that specific product or piece of information in the future.

But then again I may be missing something...

Let me know if I am.

Phil.

by **LocaLiceR** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 7:30 pm

SEF URLs are rather for the users, IMO. You surely noticed, that Firefox 3, Google Chrome and IE8 support the search for the strings typed in the address bar. For me, for instance, it's much more easier to find a bookmarked site or a recently visited site, even when I remember only a keyword.

by **LocaLiceR** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 7:33 pm

BTW, a suggestion for the 'Contributions' section. Would it be possible to reverse order the submissions (the newest first)? Let's see my contribution, the Hungarian language. Langpack for 1.1.9 is the first, and it would be easier to find the latest contribution if the sort order was reversed.

Congrats on the new look anyway