Upgrade to 1.5.4.1 and new design

I've just finished upgrading from 1.5.1.3 to 1.5.4.1 and because of the changes, required a new template. I could have upgraded the old template, but I though it was time for a fresh look.

It was a mission... first, copied the store to another host/domain, upgraded the core and modified the design here (with the first template turning out to be way too difficult to modify - seeya later 2 weeks).

Another two weeks later, after I got everything looking and working correctly, I had to move the live site again, to another domain, and upgrade, so that I could get the database up to date. Then, merged the two databases together, amazingly only missing one table...

A few cache and permission issues from the move, a couple more tweaks, and the error logs are clear!

Special thanks to the team at http://isenselabs.com/ for the great template to start from and all of the help customizing it, and also to Dmitriy for his great one-page checkout (http://www.opencart.com/index.php?route ... on_id=4811) and all of the awesome support - above and beyond what is required.

Looks great. My only comment would be on the checkout page.

I found it odd that it apparently wants you to enter the shipping address first. If you uncheck the box to use the same billing and shipping address, the new area that opens says "Billing Address" - shouldn't this be for the shipping address? There is no mention if the one you enter first is for billing or shipping so I could see a lot of people getting confused, having to go back and edit things, etc. I would suggest labeling the address information you see first and making the secondary address for shipping.

Cheers labeshops.

I've changed the heading in the checkout from "Customer Details" to "Customer / Delivery Details". I actually don't think many people would get confused, because 100% of our items must be delivered and 99% of our customers seem to have the same shipping/billing details.... but... I'm all for making checkout easier, so if you've picked it up, then chances are one (or more) of our customers will as well.

Guess it depends on your customer base and it seems backwards to me as your billing address probably won't change often, but you might change the delivery address if you want to ship a gift. So the main/customer account info to me should be billing information so you can enter different delivery addresses if you want.

The way yours is set up, if they want to ship an order to a friend, they would have to change the main account info which is also the delivery address if you see what I mean. Which is why it seems "wrong" to me.

But if your customers never ship gifts, then I guess it would make sense.

Now I think about it, it is a bit backward isn't it. My registration page is set up for billing details, and then if you have something in the cart, it asks if you have a separate shipping address (it's actually the Uber Checkout registration page - I was using Uber but wanted a bit more flexibility on the checkout page).

I might mention it to Dmitriy. It shouldn't affect my shop too much, because of the products I'm selling and who they're shipping to, but it could be a problem for other stores.

Once you have an account, it is very easy to change or add addresses on the checkout page (there's a drop-down selector so you can switch between addresses really quickly, or select "add new"), but it really should follow the standard way of registering....

Spoke with Dmitriy and a sort order for the addresses (and other boxes I think) will be added to Simple Checkout in the near future.

Simple Checkout has now been updated (v3) and the addresses have been corrected (billing/shipping).