Thread: Camera Market

Camera Market

Hey all,

I'll be launching this site soon - would be keen to know what people think

http://ww2.cameramarket.com.au

I've made the following mods:

• Replaced wp-login.php with login.php to mask Wordpress
  Renamed "Dashboard" to "My Account"
  Removed references to Facebook/Twitter/Paypal on Profile Pages
  Using Register-Plus to collect location info at Registration (and using this data on post ad pages)
  Added dropdown for location selection in search form
  Disabled listing ads in parent categories
  Hidden reference to Payment Method for free ads.
  Sticky posts highlighted and show up first on category/search
  A few wording changes here and there
  A few cosmetic enhancements

The only changes I want to make (and I'm hoping for these to be released in the next version of CP) are images showing up on the post preview page (before the ad is submitted), free ads to be relisted, users can self delete their accounts, and users can delete ads as well as pause.

Cheers,
Kim

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Looks really great! I'll be sure to let my photographer friends in Oz know about it when you launch too

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great job with your site, your color scheme is very pleasing to the eye and fits the tech nature of your niche really well.

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Nice Scheme! I'm using register plus too and i added first and last name fields, but the boxes are smaller than the username and email boxes provided by classipress, how did you change the size of the box and how did you get the letters on the left instead of the top?

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It looks nice and I like the rounded corners.

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Hi Kmaisch,

Your website looks nice and clean!

It also gave me a chance to check out the Search form since I am paying attention to that with the site I am developing.

After some experimentation with the search form on your site and on my test site I decided to get rid of the "What are you searching for? " default input value. If the input form does not have this in there then your search gets much better and can do more things.

For instance Kmaisch-- if a user thought they could use the search function to simply sort out "SLR Cameras" in "Victoria" they cannot do this by default because the search will inject the "What are you looking for?" default string into the search parameters. And any text you do put into that input field to remove the "What are you looking for?" gets added into the search string which can immediately invalidate the search if not careful.

I imagine when you DO have SLR cameras in Victoria that you would want the Search to be able to show the option of any category that is listed in a certain state or territory.

I removed every input reference even though only the first one is needed to get rid of the "What are you looking for?" This is what I have now done with my search form. The line I changed is the <input...........

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Hi

Looking really nice especially the rounded corners.

Would you like to share?

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Thanks Vienna - I'll look at doing that search mod, good idea!

The rounded corners only work in Mozilla and Webkit (Safari/Chrome) and use a mixture of the following CSS attributes:

-moz-border-radius-topleft;
-webkit-border-top-left-radius;
-moz-border-radius-topright;
-webkit-border-top-right-radius;
-moz-border-radius-bottomleft;
-webkit-border-bottom-left-radius;
-moz-border-radius-bottomright;
-webkit-border-bottom-right-radius;

Kim

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That is an extremely nice website, one of the Top 5 CP Sites I have seen to date.

Very well done!

I would suggest incorporating some Terms of Use and a Privacy Policy.

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Rounded corner

I put these in css and got everything rounded:

div { -moz-border-radius-topleft: 20px;
-webkit-border-top-left-radius: 20px;
-moz-border-radius-topright: 20px;
-webkit-border-top-right-radius: 20px;
-moz-border-radius-bottomleft: 20px;
-webkit-border-bottom-left-radius: 20px;
-moz-border-radius-bottomright: 20px;
-webkit-border-bottom-right-radius: 20px;
}

I would everything rounded except top and bottom...With this the whole template include