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by **Qphoria** » Wed Nov 23, 2011 7:34 am

http://OpenCartGuru.com

I have decided it was time to upgrade to 1.5.x and a decided to change the name as well.
I whipped it together in about an hour so I've still got some theme work to do.
Anybody out there want to create a new logo for me? It might be too early as I haven't yet decided on a theme or theme colors but perhaps some logo ideas because my graphic skills are limited to MS Paint.

Q: Why the name change?
A: The old name really didn't define what the site was about. This made it harder to find the site, and led to confusion on credit card statements when people didn't remember what "The Q Domain" was. The new name clarifies exactly what it is for.

Q: Can I still see my orders/downloads from the old site?
A: Absolutely. I just did the normal upgrade and then moved to a new domain. Your old account data stays the same.

by **florinsith** » Wed Nov 23, 2011 11:02 am

Some sugestions:

by **fido-x** » Wed Nov 23, 2011 1:30 pm

I like those with the "on/off" button. Might give us a chance to turn him off from time to time. :laugh:

by **Qphoria** » Wed Nov 23, 2011 1:50 pm

fido-x wrote:I like those with the "on/off" button. Might give us a chance to turn him off from time to time.

It's an ON/ON button only :laugh:

by **Xsecrets** » Wed Nov 23, 2011 2:07 pm

lol how many times are you going to change the name?

I like that ocg logo. I was wanting something like that for mine if solutions wasn't so long $:-\$

by **Johnathan** » Wed Nov 23, 2011 2:22 pm

Nice name...seems appropriate.

by **florinsith** » Wed Nov 23, 2011 3:28 pm

Like this one?

by **Xsecrets** » Wed Nov 23, 2011 3:36 pm

well whenever I get an official one I really want to emphasize SOS somehow.

by **florinsith** » Wed Nov 23, 2011 3:59 pm

2 more tryes.

by **Qphoria** » Wed Nov 23, 2011 4:24 pm

Xsecrets wrote:lol how many times are you going to change the name?

I like that ocg logo. I was wanting something like that for mine if solutions wasn't so long $:-\$

I never changed it before.. this is the first time.
I changed the url 2 years ago from unbannable the theqdomain because unbannable was just some old test site and the store got bigger. But it was still called "The Qphoric Domain"
So this is my first name change

by **Qphoria** » Wed Nov 23, 2011 4:26 pm

I like that OCG logo too... I was thinking, since each word is 4 letters long, it can do some cool things..
How about something stacked like

Open
Cart
Guru

I also like the inclusion of the "Q" power button from my old logo

by **florinsith** » Wed Nov 23, 2011 5:16 pm

kinda like this?

by **Qphoria** » Wed Nov 23, 2011 6:28 pm

Even better than what I was thinking

Tho the colors.. I'm not tied to blue and red... maybe a black and red or black and orange
and maybe make guru stand out a bit diff from the "open" and "cart"

damn im picky

by **florinsith** » Wed Nov 23, 2011 8:44 pm

about which one are you talking?

by **Qphoria** » Wed Nov 23, 2011 9:48 pm

The stacked version

by **florinsith** » Wed Nov 23, 2011 11:07 pm

If you changed your domain name, isnt that going to affect your google rating?

by **Qphoria** » Tue Nov 29, 2011 2:48 pm

Still thinkin on the logo, but in the mean time, I have found your BigCart3 theme to be fantastic!
Excellent job! I made some small changes to the product boxes to squeeze a bit more room and I think it turned out very well.

I am open to any criteria or advice. I'm terrible at theming and I'm sure some color variations might clash a bit, but that's just how it goes.

I've got a "wiggle" script on the site that randomly wiggles images on the site. I found it to be subtle but entertaining. I've gotten mixed reviews on it so I'm open to opinions on that too.

by **Moggin** » Tue Nov 29, 2011 3:56 pm

Qphoria wrote:....
I've got a "wiggle" script on the site that randomly wiggles images on the site. I found it to be subtle but entertaining. I've gotten mixed reviews on it so I'm open to opinions on that too.

yeah, I saw that! Made me laugh...and mutter 'how's he doing that, then....'
It's quite subtle, and adds a bit of fun to the site. So there's another opinion.

by **florinsith** » Tue Nov 29, 2011 6:39 pm

Since there are long product names , I think the padding of the sidebar box should be removed.

I see the old seo urls redirect to the homepage of opencartguru.
I found this piece of code that worked on redirecting the seo urls to the same page on the new site for me.

Maybe it will help:

Code: Select all: RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^oldsite\.net$ [OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.oldsite\.net$ RewriteRule ^/?$ "http\:\/\/newsite\.com\/" [R=301,L]

by **Qphoria** » Tue Nov 29, 2011 7:30 pm

florinsith wrote:Since there are long product names , I think the padding of the sidebar box should be removed.

I see the old seo urls redirect to the homepage of opencartguru.
I found this piece of code that worked on redirecting the seo urls to the same page on the new site for me.

Maybe it will help:

Code: Select all
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^oldsite\.net$ [OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.oldsite\.net$ RewriteRule ^/?$ "http\:\/\/newsite\.com\/" [R=301,L]

Ah yea.. thank you.. I had this redirect from my old-old site but lost the file.