LimonBay.com piercings and other stuff

[Limonbay]

Hi, My joomla site is:

http://www.limonbay.com

It's about piercings and other nice things.

I'd love to hear any suggestions or improvements. Thank you a lot!

Hope you like it.

[VM_Fans]

Cool site. But I think it's no need to have many products on the Homepage.

[Limonbay]

Thank you, I've been thinking about that. The loading time seems right for me, and for analytics. But I'm a bit hesitant that people won't get into the different categories if they don't see something in advance. But probably I'm wrong... 

[juck100]

I think it is well designed, navigation is easy as it is minimized. Load time is okay.

[Limonbay]

I have just heard that you get penalized by google if your webpage has more than 100 links. Do you think this is true?

[TheBeautyBoutique]

It looks user friendly and easy to navigate.Good luck!

[Limonbay]

Thank you BeautyBoutque.

[Artfulwhiz]

Looking good. All the best to you.

[clementstigma]

Not bad, but I was slightly irked by the pixelated background.
Maybe you should get the background vector-ed? Then again, maybe I'm just being anal.

Btw, with that many products maybe you should check out an ajax product filter so your customers can filter through your catalogue faster?
All the best!

[Limonbay]

Thank you Artfulwhiz, the same for you! 

Clementstigma: Thank you for your advice. Some weeks ago I had a really nice image on the background but the website needed more than 5 seconds to load completely. Now it's much better. But you are completely right on that point, thank you for the idea. Do you know a way to vectorize an image like that one?

And what about the ajax product filter, I thought the one I was using was of that kind! My search box is not slow as I see it (using my actual connection). But ay improvement is welcomed, of course!

Thank you again! I'm eager to hear from you.

[clementstigma]

Hey Limon,

Sorry, might have used the wrong term.
Vector Image - Use Adobe Illustrator or get a freelancer to do it for you, might take awhile though
Also, you mentioned you had a better-looking background previously that was taking awhile to load, maybe you should try optimizing the image for the web. If you can send me a link for the previous image, I can help you render a lower resolution image that should load faster.

Product Filter - What I meant was a product filter, not a search box.
So maybe you have several boxes where they can select the following:

1 - Dropbox for Type of Piercing (Ring / Stud / Rod)
2 - Dropbox for Mood (Dark / Funky / Funny...etc)

I think that way your customers can shop faster.

Anyway, send me the link for the previous image, I'll see if I can help you with it.

[Limonbay]

Hi Clement,

Thank you for your kindness.

The link with the previous background is this: http://www.limonbay.com/templates/jv_excali/images/bg1.jpg

The actual background is 75Kb and the previous one (the one of the link) was 416Kb, 6 times bigger! That was affecting the performance of the site.


Regarding the filtering of products, do you know about a plugin, extension of Joomla for that?

Thank you in advance!

Mark

[clementstigma]

Hey Mark,

Sorry, in future please send me a PM, I don't really check back on threads until much, much later!

Background - The file you sent me was a W1920px by H1106px, is there any reason why you need such a huge file for your background? That's one of the reasons why your file size is huge!
Anyways, I've done up 2 files:
1. http://www.alkhme.com/public/bg-1.jpg - I maintained the dimensions of the image you sent but reduced the quality significantly
2. http://www.alkhme.com/public/bg-2.jpg - Reduced dimensions of the image to W1024px and slightly reduced the quality, play around with it and let me know if you need any further help.

Filtering of products - Maybe you can look into a cherry picker from http://www.galt.md/ or see if breakdesigns.net has one (I know they have one for VM2.0, not sure about 1.x)

Hope I've been of help!
Add me up on skype - clement.alkhme if you want a faster response.

[Limonbay]

Hi Clement,

I would like to thank you so much for your kind and prompt response. I have already download the two different backgrounds and I'm playing with them. I hope I'll be able to upload them soon.

Thank you again!

[osp]

Outstanding!
Right panel is cool...
Just noticed backgroud image is as bit "squared"...bu I'm sure you know...