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Tue Mar 14 11:28:50 MSK 2006[*] - max - Improvement: Product images on the Cart page are now affected by 'The thumbnail width in the products list' option; product id is replaced by product code in product title.
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Almost fell off my chair then. Looks like things are coming on
Now if that is made as an option in general settings / appearance its useful to everyone.
Heres my list of other bits and bobs that i noticed when looking at the demo site
http://www.x-cart.com/demo_preview/
Welcome to administration area
Could we move the top sellers and orders info to there own page instead of showing on the first page when you log into admin. On a store with hundreds of sales a day it takes forever to log in and this info is not needed every time you enter the admin area.
IMAGES LOCATION
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On this page you can switch your X-Cart to store images (category icons, product thumbnails and/or detailed product images) in the database or on the file system. By default, all images are stored in the database. Storing images on the file system may be helpful if your database performance is poor or its size is limited.
IMPORTANT! If you want to move images from the database to the file system, make sure you specified the correct path to the place where your images will be stored (Note: you should specify the path on the server where X-cart is installed, not on your local machine). For UNIX users, make sure that this directory has world writable permissions (go to the specified directory and issue the command: chmod 0777).
If you select the 'Allow to store images only in the directory specified here' check box, all your images will be stored by default in the directory specified in the 'Path to images on the local server' field. If you leave the check box empty, when uploading your images you will be able to choose a subdirectory of 'xcart/files' directory.
It's strongly recommended to make a backup of your database before you proceed.
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Nowhere here does it ask you or tell you where the images are going to be stored. This text will not help anyone
Im sure both dialog.tpl and menu.tpl could be simplified easily. one thing i change ever time is to remove the
from after the content of menu.tpl. just wastes space at the foot of the menu
PAYMENT METHODS
you could make the special instructions a text area instead of a text field. would make it easier to read
SEND TO FRIEND
please make this as a module that can be switched on and off
LANGUAGES
if theres only one language available can we not have to choose it from the first drop menu
GENERAL SETTINGS / MISCELLANEOUS
Enable tracking statistics: - Are these not linked to the advanced statistics
Parse Smarty tags in the content of embedded static pages: - Should this not be on the static pages page
The full path to Perl - could this not be checked as an environmental variable and entered if found
GENERAL SETTINGS / APPEARANCE OPTIONS
Displaying products -
Display only featured products list in multicolumn format: could this be switched off as default
Display product code (SKU) in the products list: - could we also ask about the sku in the title of the details page
CONTACT US FORM OPTIONS
I see the departments drop down is now able to switch off but why not make it an adition field there by default. that way people can edit it too.
Why not also show the company address and telephone numbers on the contact us page. we already have the data
Where the phone number is shown please change US TOLL FREE to CALL US or something more generic
SEO OPTIONS
make the text field text areas instead. difficult to try and enter stuff in a tiny box
Make the site title something configurable instead of using your company name. The same goes for the root link of the navigation links
USER PROFILE OPTIONS
can you confirm if both billing and shipping first and last name are stored in their own row in the database and not joined.
can you confirm if both billing and shipping address1 & address 2are stored in their own row in the database and not joined.
could we not join the Personal information & Contact Information into one section
it would be better if company was asked as billing address and then also for shipping address
INVOICE
All ill say is that the invoice has always looked unprofesional and could so easily be cleaned up.
PRINT INVOICE - pity it shows in times romain and not verdana or whatever the main body font of the store is
ORDERS
It would be great if orders were shown in their own menu box. this way it would be simple for an admin to disallow all other menus to fulfilment staf. There was a simple mod before to create quick links for 'todays orders' 'new orders' etc
ORDERS ORDER - Order must be shown with latest one first, NOT the other way round. Makes no sense
ORDERS DATE - please show this to include the hours and minutes too
ORDERS DETAILS - would be best to show products in more of an invoice type way rather then the old xcart way
STYLE SHEET CSS
good to see this has been worked on. dont understand why the categories list has its own style that just makes the category font bigger. dont see any point for that and makes things look disjointed.
BUTTONS
could someone from xcart explain the logic behind how buttons are made and why we must have go buttons, full buttons and std text buttons. There does not seem to be any sense to it. Surely things could be made simpler here.
PRODUCTS LIST ADMIN
http://www.x-cart.com/demo_preview/admin/search.php?mode=search&page=1
it would be so usefull to be able to use a list like that to also enter list price and other data. would speed things up no end
Anyway, Ill leave this for now and hope that even if none of this will go into 4.1 that at least we can have some discussion on it and if the ideas are bad then say so. If ideas are good then most of them are simple fixes and would make life better all round
Good to see progress