Coffee, Espresso Machines Site

[unleash.it]

Hi everyone, let me know what you think about my new Joomla 1.5 (final) / VM 1.1 (beta 2) site. Any comments/suggestions, good or bad appreciated.

http://www.tomanddaves.com/

The template is custom, based mostly on a photoshop mockup of another designer. Integrates with authorize.net and live UPS quotes.

Addons: Virtuemart 1.1 build 1142 with a customized Virtuemart module, XMAP (sitemap), Chronoforms (for contact page), JoomSEO for titles and meta tags, Native SEF (but doesn't yet work on VM pages) and SQL Dumper for backup.

Also uses the Product Taxable hack by BrianCockle (enables non-taxable status per product) and the UPS over 75lb. fix by thomas_freeman. Thanks you guys and thank you Virtue Mart and Joomla.

Legacy mode is currently enabled, but only needed for XMAP until XMAP upgrades...

[HWG]

it looks great and for a short period of time, you have already achived a PR3

one question though, what do u mean of 'Virtuemart 1.1 build 1142 with a customized Virtuemart module'? what has been modified/customerized?

the reason why i ask it, you have seamless https/http swtich over in your web site. not sure if it's because your template? the customerization to make? or some other reason.

coz i'm not able to make it to work - every time an IE visit, i have the 'this page contains both secure and nonsecure items' warning message.

appreciate that if you can share some inside for that.

cheers,

[blackstar]

it looks great and for a short period of time, you have already achived a PR3

one question though, what do u mean of 'Virtuemart 1.1 build 1142 with a customized Virtuemart module'? what has been modified/customerized?

the reason why i ask it, you have seamless https/http swtich over in your web site. not sure if it's because your template? the customerization to make? or some other reason.

coz i'm not able to make it to work - every time an IE visit, i have the 'this page contains both secure and nonsecure items' warning message.

appreciate that if you can share some inside for that.

cheers,

hello..
another ivan here...
its not template specific...you just have to be sure that all links that are on the page of your https section do not have any http reference..
meaning, make sure that all links that are on your pages only follow a directory path instead of the full url path
eg. image file = http://yourdomain.com/images/file.jpg - NO!
image file = /images/file.jpg - YES
this will solve your ssl issues.
cheers,
ivan

[Kevin]

Nice smooth site.  I especially like the checkout page that accordions down to reveal the bill to info.

p.s. Not sure if this is relevant but I believe there is a typo in the quote from John Smith  "They mast now something special to produce this fine of a taste"

[unleash.it]

Hey, thanks for the feed back you guys. Forgot all about this posting until I happened to see it up on the latest...

Ivan #1:  The second Ivan is right I believe. Joomla/Virtuemart should take care of this evil problem for you unless you manually hard code the full path in your image links. Is PR3 good? It seems like I'm only getting so-so results right now. Part of the problem I think is there's so much competition for coffee, plus there's almost nobody linking to the site. Also not having SEF Virtuemart links can't help either. Now that smartsef is out, I may install it.

As for the VM module, mainly it was the look. It's now horizontal instead of vertical, stripped the table code, the order of stuff is changed etc. This actually took more trouble than you can even imagine... I also Added a "Hi {username}" greeting when you're logged in and a couple other touches.

Keven: Thanks Can't take credit for the accordions though...that's built right into VM 1.1. Yeah, there's a typo and that quote looks like crap. Still waiting for my client to see if they want me to fix it...