afagcaoili wrote:Thanks Paul for the latest update. I like it!
Several things on the new release:
1. I think the first image on the thumbnail is still connected to the thumbnail image not the original image so when you click it, it gives you the smaller size of the picture.
2. On the list of products, the image is still not clickable but the special offers are. I mean the image can not be clicked to go to the details page. I know that this would be an easy fix for you. So is number 1.
3. This is more of a request. The thumbnail has their own group of image gallery. Is there any way you can point the thumbnail to load the image gallery instead of having their own image gallery group separate from the other image gallery? Or maybe even combined them so that when the thumbnail is clicked the other image gallery is also loaded?
4. When adding additional images, is it possible to have say 5 images loaded at the same time instead of loading 1 image at a time? Maybe add 4 more possible image upload and if they only need to load say 3 then it will only load the 3 selected. I think this will be easy for you to fix for your next release.
5. Another request, can you add a sorting list? Say sort the products on price, manufacturer, or categories. Primarily atleast on the price and manufacturer. I think this will be a good feature since say a customer is looking for products of a specific manufacturer and sort the price. Just maybe something you may want to add as your storefront feature.
6. On the categories menu. I do not think it shows up children for the subcategories. Say I have this tree for my menu: All->ProductA->Product1->Product_aa. For this example, everything show up to Product1 but the Product_aa which is under Product1 will no longer show up in the menu.
7. Another suggestion. For better SEO do you think you could generate a site map based on the categories and links maybe? Just suggesting.
Please do not get me wrong on these list, I like your product and I think that your product can certainly compete with those more expensive ecommerce solution out there.
Thanks a lot.
Arnold
Thanks for the comments.....
1. See above, this should have been fixed but wasnt due to a cockup moving the changes
2. Yes, had a problem with this, the current thumbnails are asp:Image controls that cannot be assigned a NavigateURL so to make the images within the Gridview clickable i'm going to have to change them to another control type. This is perfectly do-able but will need sorting in a few different locations so didnt make it into this change.
3. Not sure what you mean by this one, do you mean the group of 3 images at the top being seperate from the image gallery? This is because they are stored and generated in a different way and for most of the time i'm assuming that users will just use the 3 images (or i could be wrong, have to wait and see). You can link the 2 sets within the modal window by setting the rel="" value to be the same.
4. Yes, this feature will be added although if you want to bulk upload via FTP then just name all the images for a product in the format 'x[ProductID]gal_[imagefilename]' so for example if i wanted to add an image called widget.jpg to a product with ID 45 i'd name it x45gal_widget.jpg and then just upload it to the ProdImages dir where the app would pick it up.
5. Yes, will be added, currently some lists are sortable, some are not, everything that will benefit from sorting will be assigned it
6. It will only show the first 2 cat levels on the nav menu. Additional subcategories are shown as text links and if you select a cat it will currently only display products explicitely in that cat. Need to adjust the hierarchy a bit.
7. Yes, this is easy enough.
Paul
