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gmstores - thats a fantastic site, you done a great job there.

Last edited by mixer25 (02-24-2007 09:48:02)

Thanks for the compliments

I've had a look on the hit-logs for your session and I can see what you mean - if I've picked out the right session, you browsed to the Specials section, and you got there by clicking on a non-SEO link. That's weird.

When *I* bring up the page from a IE7 window and hover over those links they are the SEO ones - I'll install FireFox and see if I can duplicate the problem.

rachaelseven wrote:

...I just tried it again with IE6 and got the same thing - clicking the link you put in your forum post took me to a front page with mostly non-SEO links.  Maybe they don't turn SEO until you've navigated once and had a cookie set?

I've just tried this myself for a different PC set to reject cookies and you're dead right - the first hit of a page to the site shows links in non-SEO format.

This is only the case if you come to the site through the homepage - if your first hit is another page, say from a link on another site, whether or not you reach it via its SEO or non-SEO Url then the links display fine. It's only if your first hit is the homepage.

Weird

Just to clear up concerns here about SEO links:

As a regular user navigates to a CCP6 site the first set of links they see will be non-SEO (as that's the page on which the cookie would have been set).  On the next page (provided a cookie exists for tracking purposes), SEO links are presented.

Search engines are recognized by the KHXC and automatically receive SEO links all of the time (even on the first page view) and are never prompted for cookies or subject to cache controls.

I just want to add my findings to this...

It is possible to server SEO friendly urls from the homepage (base url), but you need to install the khxc in the base/root directory (i.e. public_html without the khxc sun directory) then set you .htaccess as normal (without the preceeding khxc diretcory) and the SEO urls will be served on the first hit.

bamabots,

how are you using the dropshipping functionality?  just adding their email address to the "shipemail" column in the products table?  i know i always hated having to update their product info for them so i wrote a little flash app that they can log into that only displays some basic product info that they might need to change from time to time.  saves me a headache of them asking me to make something out of stock, me forgetting, and then someone ordering 3 of them.

Guess I should add mine. http://www.fleshlight.com.au please dont click if an adult toy offends

Weve been running live with the new version since early August after spending 3 months part time customizing the code for features we had written on the previous CCP. A few things that we can make use of here in AUS that dont seem to be available in other countries.

So far no problems at all. The create an account option doesn't seem to have slowed anyone down at all. Sales are up, orders are being paid for more frequently which is a huge plus. Even though we don't process cc's online, at least our offline cc's are now going thru more regularly now.

We are just about to go live with our wholesale system with this version as well now.

My partners would prefer a little bit easier email invoice to work from, but I'll get that fixed for them when I get some more spare time

Faz

Well like I said-I can't really take too much credit. You guys did a great job of laying everything out and especially documenting your CSS for easy customization. All customization I did on this skin was done in less than a day.

I would recommend a skin from zipskins.com to everyone-well worth it.

I'm going to buy the khxc001 skin....right after Nick releases the next update that removes account creation.

James...

Yes, the site is very attractive.  The only problem I have with it is that it's obviously a CCP cart.  I wouldn't want people to be able to know what the cart is (but they could figure out from source code or from urls (ccp0/ in the urls for example)).  Not that there's anything wrong with the ccp look, it's just that it could appear cookie cutter or just a template site with a few color changes.  The skin i like from zipskin will give a completely different look that i can further customize.

Very nice!  One thing I did notice was that the link to enter the store and the link from the store to return to the main website both open in new windows.  So if you go back and forth from the store to the site, you end up with a whole pile of windows.  Otherwise, nice work!

You're quite welcome.  I found the window behavior problematic, yes.  Generally, one would expect the store link to take you to another area of the same site... like moving from the showroom to the sales office, so to speak.  So having a new window pop up is kind of odd - it makes it feel like you're going somewhere else.  And the 2nd new window that appears if you return from the store to the site is even more problematic... any indecision at all and you end up with windows all over the place, which is pretty annoying, imho.  Also, pop-ups are blocked by lots of browsers, firewalls, privacy programs, etc, so you might have functionality issues with some users.  Just my thoughts, but I've never seen it done that way before and I think it would be better to stay in the same window.

R.