New camping website

[ukmgranger]

Hi all,

Take a look at my new Campfires-Allowed site:

http://www.campfires-allowed.co.uk


Important bits:
cmsms 1.5.4
Products 2.3

Let me know what you think!

[klenkes]

Hi.

Knowing that Opera may be a bit of an exoting browser, I have to tell you that recent version of Opera has problems with the site.

During the loading process I am able to see the page, but as soon as loading is finished the viewport goes black. Maximizing the window via F11 redraws the page and everything is fine, but I have to do this on every page I want to view.

Aside from that glitch I think it's nice site.

Bernd

[tyman00]

Nice simple layout and navigation. Visually appealing and I really like the concept/purpose of the website.

It is also nice to see all of your pages validate as well. I did notice that your recipes page still has the default /templates-and-stylesheets alias. I am not sure if you planned on addressing it when you added content to the page or not, but for SEO purposes you may consider changing the alias now while the crawlers are going through your nice new site. No sense in having them index a page with that url.

[ukmgranger]

Thanks for the kind words tyman00.  I have done as you said with the recipes page.  Thanks for pointing that out.

@klenkes - Thanks for pointing this out.  I have just installed Opera 9.64 on my PC to check it out.  It does exactly what you said.  Any idead why this would happen?  I have no experience with Opera?!?

[tyman00]

@klenkes - Thanks for pointing this out.  I have just installed Opera 9.64 on my PC to check it out.  It does exactly what you said.  Any idead why this would happen?  I have no experience with Opera?!?

If I had to guess I would bet it has something to do with FancyZoom. Because it only causes a problem once the body is loaded and you have an onload="setupZoom()" event. Check the FancyZoom site/forums to see if anyone else is encountering this issue in Opera... they may even have a known issues area that could describe it.

If you aren't stuck to using FancyZoom you could check out other scripts like HighSlide or Lightbox or others that work with Jquery.

[joecannes]

nice site!

What did you use Products 2.3 for?

[viebig]

Nice site! Keep it up with CMSMS!

[jmcgin51]

I get a mostly blank page when I click the Contact Us link.  Just has a "c" in the content area.  Page source shows the same...  Using FF 3.0.

Otherwise nicely done!

[ukmgranger]

Thanks for the kind words and help people.  I really want this to be a useful site for all the campers out there, so your input is really appreciated.

@tyman00 - Thanks for the hints regarding fancyzoom.  I will look into the other jquery options.

@jmcgin51 - There is no content on this page at the moment.  This will be populated with a contact form as soon as I get a mo.

@joecannes - I have set up the site so as each individual campsite is essentially a 'product'.  Therefore in the backend I can really quickly add new campsites to the website without worrying about any kind of formatting in much the same way that an online shop owner would add products to their shop.

I have now added a new footer.  Unfortunately it gets a little hidden down there, but I think the links in it will ultimately help the site.
Check out the 'campsite by area' page too:
http://www.campfires-allowed.co.uk/index.php?page=campsites-by-area

[Coldman]

Hi ukmgranger!

Nice clean site you got there.
But there's some problem with menu.
I'm using Ubuntu with FF and Contact Us is below all others.

Here you can see what I mean
http://img230.imageshack.us/my.php?image=camfires.png

[ukmgranger]

Hi ukmgranger!

Nice clean site you got there.
But there's some problem with menu.
I'm using Ubuntu with FF and Contact Us is below all others.

Here you can see what I mean
http://img230.imageshack.us/my.php?image=camfires.png

Wow that is interesting!  the text seems to look massive in the menu on your screencap compared to how it looks on all the browsers I have tried it on.  Do you think there is a conditional statement for ff on ubuntu? (I actually half meen that last comment!)

[Coldman]

I changed font size to 12 in the FF, the menu now works perfectly. the rest of the text becomes very small for me and difficult to read.

But how many are we really using Linux? So why bother?