need a price range search function, i just can not find on your site.
On Nov 17, 2:13 pm, "Dan Khan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Just a quick note to say that after 6 months of effort and some serious late > nights, we released our new PHP5 website last night atwww.1791diamonds.com > Thanks to list member James McGlinn for some helpful advice regarding > performance, and other members for insightful on-list APC/eaccelerator > debate - this has made quite a difference in terms of php speed > improvements. > > Any feedback or questions from a PHP or techie perspective are welcome (I > know the XHTML isn't as clean as I'd like yet...)! > > I think we made some cool use of scriptaculous/prototype to make some neat > animations and ajax in the 'design your own ring' section and the product > catalogue - looking back 5 years ago, I'm amazed that this sort of stuff can > be done easily in the browser now without resorting to Flash or similar > 'fat' technologies. > > The URLs are search engine friendly (as much as poss) by piping though from > apache to php to pre-process and rewrite - again looking back at how we used > to do this 10 years ago using mime-type hacks, it's all just so easy now. > All product images are automatically css-spritemapped on the server using > imagemagick to save server requests and reduce files sizes; and JS is first > compressed, then packed using free online tools. This makes a great > difference for fat JS libs like scriptaculous/prototype taking 270KB down to > 50ishKB! Rendering uses smarty, using the in-built caching (modified > slightly to also cache HTTP headers for our Ajax JSON headers). > > Also, if any of you geeks are up at 7am and are near getting engaged, watch > TV3's Sunrise over the next couple of weeks for a chance to win the $10K > diamond engagement ring that Carly Flynn is wearing as part of our launch > promo! > > Cheers, > -Dan > > *Dan Khan* > > Technical Director > > 1791 Diamonds Ltd > > www.1791diamonds.com > > DISCLAIMER: The views and opinions expressed in this e-mail are my own and > do not necessarily represent the views of 1791 Diamonds Ltd. The information > contained in this email message is intended only for the use of the person > or entity to whom it is addressed and may contain information that is > CONFIDENTIAL and may be LEGALLY PRIVILEGED and exempt from disclosure under > applicable laws. If you read this message and are not the addressee you are > notified that use, dissemination, distribution, or reproduction of this > message is prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please > notify us immediately via reply email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and > delete the original message. We regularly scan our IT systems for viruses, > however, you should also scan this message and any attached files for > viruses. 1791 Diamonds Ltd accepts no liability for any loss caused either > directly or indirectly by a virus arising from the use of this message or > any attached file. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
