Post by Leisure4Outdoors » Sun Apr 28, 2013 8:33 pm

I have recently got our site up and running, but would like some feedback on where improvements can be made.

Although live, it is still a work in progress!

The URL is http://leisure4outdoors.co.uk

Thanks :D

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Post by Leisure4Outdoors » Wed May 01, 2013 5:16 am

One thing I would like to know.......

I have the "option sku" extension (by felixq) installed so that I can create a single product (eg a caravan awning), and list all the available sizes as options, but with each having it's own SKU.
For examples, see http://leisure4outdoors.co.uk/index.php ... uct_id=187.

Each of the available awning sizes has its own unique SKU set in the backend (and linked to our stock control system), but on the Goole Base / shopping feed, it only shows as a single product - not the 8 products that we really have for sale. I would ideally like to see 8 listings on Google shopping, because "technically" they are all unique products.

I don't want to create 8 "duplicate" items (for this one product alone), as it just seems untidy, but cannot think of a better way at present.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

James (Leisure4Outdoors)

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Post by butte » Thu May 02, 2013 6:07 am

Overall it is to my eye still, well, mundane, so give some thought to stylesheet.css as you progress with functions and products. (Make a backup of the .css files so that you can get back to square one, at each plateau of changing overall appearance.)

To you they're eight big deals; technically speaking or not. To Google the second 7 are superfluous; it is an X that it comes in optional colors 1 . . . 8, and it is NOT a 1 or 2 or 3 . . . or 8 that comes in optional physical manifestation X. If those were Bentleys, Toyotas, or Morris Minors, overwhelmingly most customers would see any one of them as the product and the rest on the sales lot as the overall trivial (even if pricey) options they have, among probably more in the brochures. Some of us confronting the colors as products and the option as vehicle actually would contemplate giving the manager of the place a pat on the head and a lollipop. Google is not playing the game, either.

The thing will grow with you. The sooner you begin keeping leaves, trees, and forests apart, the better by way of your not going batty.

Admittedly bemused by the spectre of walking around London with a jug of Bobby Dazzler shown on the landing, I quickly found that the only expedient way to locate it as a product was to search, and, lo, it would, of course, make scant headway if one were trying to dazzle bobbies with it. If one sees a little picture of shoes, tent, stove, shirt, whatnot, whose category makes intuitively instant sense to select, the same cannot so readily be said of a similarly little picture of Bobby Dazzler sans any legible text to support or thwart such guesses as stove fuel, purified water, whatnot, and none of the categories invites an eagerly unqualified leap for water repellant.

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