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@Bill ~ ” I’ll include that when we add the testimonials section.”
Did you do either yet? It seems to me you’re running about a month behind on the testimonial inclusion.
Being 64, it seems time has a significance for me it doesn’t always have for other people.
I’m not finding Jigoshop too intuitive (its just updated to 1.o now). I just created a new product item and this time simply included a picture with the text and I don’t see where its getting this “default image” from… http://awesomescreenshot.com/0adtc9q99
When I go to what I have designated as the catalog page I can see some sort of defualt catalog, but it doesn’t include the items I have just created… http://awesomescreenshot.com/03ftc9x76
And if I use the preview option for the item and then click on its category item, this is what happens… http://awesomescreenshot.com/08btccn41
Any ideas?
P.S. I am wondering if its worth persevering with Jigoshop or maybe if I loaded a Jigoshop theme on a sub-domain even if maybe WP-Ecommerce might be better.
Bill, looks like train wreck to me at the moment… http://www.catteryinthecountry.co.uk/pampurred-cat-boutique.html — A bit more to go on than “try those and see if it doesn’t help” would help. Is there any documentation of guidance to making Jigoshop work with Foxy?
Trina,
Sorry, but it all depends on what style of images and how many.
You need to try and keep each background image under about 50k, which should be possible even with quite a high resolution picture, depending on what tools you are using to edit and save the files.
Also, you might want to install Smushit! on your site BEFORE you upload the files. It will then extract all the unnecessary invisible junk and data various software puts in the files, and slim them down safely and automatically when you upload them.
If you had searched this forum you might have found a number of other threads on this issue. In the Foxy demo Bill uses images from 1200 by 800 to 1500 by 1800. For best results he recommends not to go less than 1000 pixels wide or wider than 2000 pixels.
Personally I’ve used 1060 x 1060 because that was a size I saw he was using, among others, and it works fine for me. I have 5 background images loaded on my home page and the site loads in less than a second – 553 milliseconds actually.
But as you may, or may not know, there’s far more than just size of the pictures that effects site load speed.
Hope that helps.
Well it was pretty much not a promise, sort of… 8^)
But when you do eventually get round to doing it instead of sitting round drinking beer and reading comic books — don’t forget the SEO stuff as well. Two H1’s is not good for either of us! Don’t forget, you’ve got your reputation to live up to. Everyone knows I know jack sh*t.
OK, figured it out in the end. It was just me being dumb — http://www.domain.tld/services/servicegroup — duh!
How’s the testimonials section going, and the other meta data stuff I guess you’re planning on releasing at the same time?
Also, how on earth do I get a second services group I just created to show up as menu item?
I’ve been going quietly nuts here. Is it obvious and I’m just being dense?
In fact, I just checked, by my server is actually the same as you – Rackspace – only mine is in London and the only major difference, apart from that, is that I have Cloudflare in between (edge servers in London now). I am going to disconnect Cloudflare and do some experimentation and see where all the latency is coming from.
I think I have got the best hosting – StandingCloud – [http://www.standingcloud.com/], because “best hosting” means more than just raw speed, of course. I’ve tried about a dozen, from Media Temple, to Slicehost to VPS.net, and they have all got their problems. One even had both a server AND a NAS outage, and sent me an email to say sorry, but they’d lost my site. But StandingCloud has never, EVER, let me down, and their support is second to none. The ARE the best, in my view.
Any chance you could take a look at this post for me?
I can see where the script is called in “custom-js.php” I just don’t know how best to edit it, so I thought I’d ask you and find out the right way.
All the other scripts seem to work OK with Rocket Load running in automatic mode but I just wondered, should I load any of the other scripts manually.
OK, that’s no problem, I can easily create an alternative site structure for mobile menu, but that does kind of miss the point, from my point of view. The reason I was attracted to the template in the first places was to avoid having two different themes, albeit controlled from the same interface. Oh well, such is life.
That works very well of course, as you always knew it would, but on testing the page load speed (un-cached but running on Cloudflare which includes minification etc), I now see that the home page loads on 5.1 seconds of which 4.9 is taken by Supersized 3.1 to load three images.
I only have these 3 background images set up, so far, and each of them is around 50k-60k. I will add W3TC later when I have finished the initial development but are there any demon tips or tricks you can give me to reduce that delay and increase the underlying page-load speed performance?
Well, I’ll be darned. Never new that. I always thought you needed a blog page template. Thanks very much for the education Bill.
There’s some interesting psychology to do with search boxes on websites and it goes like this…
Since I have a limited amount of high-quality content on my website, a search-form can aggravate more than it helps.
Why?
Because if I had a search form, when people used it, they’d be more likely to be let down than satisfied. It’s a simple numbers game. Since I have a limited amount of high-quality content, the chances of people finding an article for their every desire is low.
And that’s why I don’t have a search form on my website. You don’t want to put people in the position of feeling bad when browsing your site. People who feel bad about your site generally don’t buy…
You may be different and have tons of high quality content, but I don’t. At least not yet. And when that changes, so will my use of a search form, so thanks for the ability to add one.
How does that work then when you have a static home page but you also want to create a section or tab with more current information and interaction. What URL do I call in the menu item?
Hmmm, that’s correct, not sure why that’s not working on the home page, nor the custom post types, better go Skype him and see what Joost thinks about that.
Yes, I could, and it would be easier, but it looks naff – so I guess, as I said, its either go get a shorter domain name (for email at least), create CSS to make the typeface smaller, or put the address somewhere else on the site and other than the Hours & Contact widget.
All of which are sub-optimal.
I have plenty of real estate on the page and I only need to increase the size of the sidebar by just 20px. That’s what I want/need to do.
Any advice/help you can send in my direction?
Yes, I am aware of that, since as I said I use it on all my sites, and they were all filled in but not giving the anticipated result, which is why I wrote here.
I have “%%title%% | %%sitename%% | %%sitedesc%%” entered on the Staff, Food and Services (likewise Post and Page Titles), but I’m getting “favicon title – sitename” (no site title, wrong separator, no site name or description), for custom post types, so its not working there at all, and on the home page, i.e. root domain, I’m getting “favicon | sitename | sitedesc”, so its working partially there (missing the site title).
I haven’t looked yet, but I guess you used a variant of “
<?php wp_title(''); ?> ” in the header.php, and if so, I can edit that. Just not sure what to do about the custom post types.Any advice you can give would be much appreciated.
If you want to take a quick look at what’s happening, I’ve moved it from the dev server to the host site. You can check it out here http://www.catteryinthecountry.co.uk/ — it only has your sample data on it at the moment and a few of my backgrounds.
OK, cool. Thanks. Is there anyway to SEO the custom post types, like Staff, Food and Services? Also, is there anyway to easily rename one or more of these, or even if they could be configurable in a future version? Also, for some reason, Joost’s plugin doesn’t seem to working on the root of the domain, only pages and posts.
