Well scanman, I guess I'll just respond one at a time here.
"Just curious, why bother specifying a doctype if your document doesn't validate against it?"I went with a site developer that was in WAY over their head and there are a few things with my site that won't make sense at this point. Nothing of significance and only an experienced developer would find the things you have. The company doing our work now is phenominal, but they got the project after I took it back from a company not capable of custom solutions.
"Your site doesn't seem to print out very well and the footer sits on top of an image."I'm not sure why I would care how my site prints out right now as long as it reads well and functions online. I am interested in why you pointed this out though. As for the footer sitting on top of an image, refer to my first part of the response. Some of this we will have cleaned up as I see why it is a problem, so I AM interested in what you have to say.
"Your gallery loads full size images and uses HTML to reduce the size, however this increases load times and uses up more bandwidth than needed. Why not use thumbnails instead?"Thanks for pointing this out! I worked as a network engineer in the past and development is only a hobby; I got the thumbnails in place and need to figure it our from there. I had missed this though and appreciate you pointing it out.
"Your contest page doesn't do any sort of validation and accepts a blank entry (that's mine )."I won't get any blank entries.
The first developer set this up and the second one made it work, lol. I've tried the blank entry thing and they are simply discarded. I may ask my current developer to set it to pop up a warning that not all necessary info has been entered or something, but I do get entries when all three fields are filled out.
"Some of your pages don't have the categories menu."I think it's just the gallery pages and during product customization and checkout. I will probably have them showing next to the galleries soon, just got lost in the shuffle of other things more important.
"Your ordering process seems very unusual and for the life of me I couldn't find a way to order anything. Also, when I added a graphic to something it was so big that I couldn't see the product."Our order process is a custom built solution not offered elsewhere to this degree of ability for customers to customize their products. You are the first person that didn't find their way around,
but I do understand I have a ways to go to really make it a clear process. Part of it will simply be in making the "command" type options more visible in our product builder. You can put text on anything, change the font type, size, and color, and you can put on more graphics than will fit on any product. I need to work on making all of the graphics the same size and make that just smaller than the surface area in the product builder. We have tens of thousands of images and this whole thing has been a huge learning process. For now, you are able to resize any of the graphics smaller and they move around easy when you reduce them smaller than the surface area. You are able to rotate the surface for things like rectangle and oval sized and to have wood grains run in the direction of your choice, and you can rotate images + OR - 90 degrees and 180. Maybe all of that just didn't stand out enough for you to feel your way around. I will be changing that soon so that ALL of the functions stand out clearly.
Thanks for taking the time to really get into it and bringing up so many issues!
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