Don't want to press my luck, but I've got another suggestion or 2 :-)

[Ruth Hoffman <rh...@aesolves.com>]

Hi All:
The new OFBiz 9.x (from the packaged distribution) main storefront page 
- center column - doesn't resize gracefully - at least not with FireFox 
3.0.10. Content from the center column overwrites right column text even 
when I resize my browser window almost as wide as it goes. Not to offend 
anyone but - It looks really sloppy.

Other observations that make it look not too professional:

    The top rule just below the Featured products (BTW, the "P" should 
be capitalized) is longer than the other rules separating each line.
    The graphics are not centered above the descriptive text
    No page counters - even if there is only 1 page,  I believe you 
should tell people that there is only 1 page of products. (Plus, you 
want to showcase the fact that the software is pagination for you. This 
is a selling point!)
    When you select "Gift Cards" under Browse Categories - there are 
some empty lines in the list (between "Gift Cards Reload" and "Gift 
Cards Purchase") Same is true of "Widgets" and "Gizmos"

Again, not to insult since I know how hard it is to get the CSS right - 
but IMHO it is better to have something "safe" like the 4.x center 
column layout where you can be assured that each item will fit on a 
separate line and that the center column resizes gracefully (to a point 
:-) than this. Especially when you are trying to get people to try it out.

Thanks for listening.
Ruth

Re: Don't want to press my luck, but I've got another suggestion or 2 :-)

[David E Jones <de...@me.com>]

Yes, this is definitely a weak spot in OFBiz. Aside from the recent  
great work by Anil Patel to clean up and improve the HTML in the  
ecommerce webapp I don't think it's really been touched (except as  
needed when adding new features) for the last 4 or 5 years!

It's always been a weak spot in OFBiz, and I think the reason why is  
that most web developers that do custom ecommerce sites based on OFBiz  
create totally custom HTML and then fit in the dynamic elements from  
OFBiz instead of trying to use the HTML that comes OOTB as much as  
possible as refining it as needed and customizing it mostly through CSS.

This is an important point though, and improvements here would  
certainly make OFBiz more interesting to a large number of people and  
organizations who evaluate it for their ecommerce needs. I'm really  
inspired by the recent efforts from Anil, and I hope others with the  
skills and vision for this also get involved to make the thing really  
shine right out of the box.

In other words, I guess in short that means: +1

-David


On Jun 11, 2009, at 11:39 AM, Ruth Hoffman wrote:

> Hi All:
> Need to clarify - not sure if this is the 9.x code I'm looking at.  
> It is the "ofbiz-trunk" as downloaded last night from the Apache  
> website. The prepackaged code.
> Ruth
> Ruth Hoffman wrote:
>> Hi All:
>> The new OFBiz 9.x (from the packaged distribution) main storefront  
>> page - center column - doesn't resize gracefully - at least not  
>> with FireFox 3.0.10. Content from the center column overwrites  
>> right column text even when I resize my browser window almost as  
>> wide as it goes. Not to offend anyone but - It looks really sloppy.
>>
>> Other observations that make it look not too professional:
>>
>>   The top rule just below the Featured products (BTW, the "P"  
>> should be capitalized) is longer than the other rules separating  
>> each line.
>>   The graphics are not centered above the descriptive text
>>   No page counters - even if there is only 1 page,  I believe you  
>> should tell people that there is only 1 page of products. (Plus,  
>> you want to showcase the fact that the software is pagination for  
>> you. This is a selling point!)
>>   When you select "Gift Cards" under Browse Categories - there are  
>> some empty lines in the list (between "Gift Cards Reload" and "Gift  
>> Cards Purchase") Same is true of "Widgets" and "Gizmos"
>>
>> Again, not to insult since I know how hard it is to get the CSS  
>> right - but IMHO it is better to have something "safe" like the 4.x  
>> center column layout where you can be assured that each item will  
>> fit on a separate line and that the center column resizes  
>> gracefully (to a point :-) than this. Especially when you are  
>> trying to get people to try it out.
>>
>> Thanks for listening.
>> Ruth
>>
>

Re: Don't want to press my luck, but I've got another suggestion or 2 :-)

[Ruth Hoffman <rh...@aesolves.com>]

Hi All:
Need to clarify - not sure if this is the 9.x code I'm looking at. It is 
the "ofbiz-trunk" as downloaded last night from the Apache website. The 
prepackaged code.
Ruth
Ruth Hoffman wrote:
> Hi All:
> The new OFBiz 9.x (from the packaged distribution) main storefront 
> page - center column - doesn't resize gracefully - at least not with 
> FireFox 3.0.10. Content from the center column overwrites right column 
> text even when I resize my browser window almost as wide as it goes. 
> Not to offend anyone but - It looks really sloppy.
>
> Other observations that make it look not too professional:
>
>    The top rule just below the Featured products (BTW, the "P" should 
> be capitalized) is longer than the other rules separating each line.
>    The graphics are not centered above the descriptive text
>    No page counters - even if there is only 1 page,  I believe you 
> should tell people that there is only 1 page of products. (Plus, you 
> want to showcase the fact that the software is pagination for you. 
> This is a selling point!)
>    When you select "Gift Cards" under Browse Categories - there are 
> some empty lines in the list (between "Gift Cards Reload" and "Gift 
> Cards Purchase") Same is true of "Widgets" and "Gizmos"
>
> Again, not to insult since I know how hard it is to get the CSS right 
> - but IMHO it is better to have something "safe" like the 4.x center 
> column layout where you can be assured that each item will fit on a 
> separate line and that the center column resizes gracefully (to a 
> point :-) than this. Especially when you are trying to get people to 
> try it out.
>
> Thanks for listening.
> Ruth
>