Comments on: Silver surfers need to eat

By: william pimblett

william pimblett — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 14:18:44 +0000

like the fact that when you enter your postcode in the checkout basket i remembers it for the free brohure page.

By: Chris O'Brien

Chris O'Brien — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 01:49:10 +0000

Paul,
Nice job. I really like this look of this and am especially fond of some of the smaller elements, like the fixed shopping cart.
I have just recently stumbled onto your podcasts and have to say that I am hooked.
Appreciate all your hard work. Keep it up!

By: Chris O'Brien

Chris O'Brien — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 01:49:10 +0000

By: Chris O'Brien

Chris O'Brien — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 01:49:10 +0000

By: tj

tj — Sat, 15 Jul 2006 13:31:41 +0000

Hi,
I think its nicely laid out, easy to get around. I too question the ‘stuck on my screen’ cart. Its a little annoying and I wander if its a ‘I can do it, so I will’ element? Do users really need to see that on a constant basis?
I don’t pretend to know the answer, just my 2 bits (you asked)

By: Russell

Russell — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 23:34:16 +0000

Hi Paul,
Just one more thing.
The top rounded corners on the postcode box have a slightly different colour to the background, so I can see the square edge.
I really like the way you’ve used the berry image as the hero on the site. It’s a great emotive element. Should I assume that this image or area might change seasonally? Fantastic Idea.

By: Paul Boag

Paul Boag — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 15:32:31 +0000

Hi, the quantity box issue isn't a bug. Its a conscious feature. I wont bore you with the logic of this now but we went round and round in circles on this one and concluded that the current approach was the most intuitive considering the audience. We wanted to test this in usability sessions but unfortunately budget did not allow for this.

By: Paul Boag

Paul Boag — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 15:29:56 +0000

Daniel, we made a decision early on not to support Opera as they had about 1 visitor in a million use it. The return on investment didnt justify it.

By: Web person at uni

Web person at uni — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 14:05:44 +0000

Great Site Paul
I’ve spotted a small little thing I got to say is that when I enter for example xs into the quantity box it doesn’t throw an error but instead puts one into the basket. Also when I enter 4x it still puts in 1 into the basket so therefore people that wanted 4 only get one thinking they ordered 4 if they don’t review their basket. This error works with IE 7 Beta 3 :-) I don’t know if this works with other broswers but it shouldn’t matter as it still goes to the web server anyway.
From an another web person studing e-commerce at university

By: Daniel Aleksandersen

Daniel Aleksandersen — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 01:20:24 +0000

I just added OpenSearch to The Web Design Journal and was really pleased with how it worked with wIE7. BUT I do not think it will catch on with Web developers before the Opera Web browser and Firefox supports the system as well. As of right now it is only A9.com and wIE7 that uses OpenSearch. The idea of searching over RSS is genius. But there is no use for it yet. So the format must be more widely addopted first.