Hi Dan, To be honest, site looks nice, and good content/buyers guides, but why did it take so long? What did take 6 months of effort?
Dan Khan: > Thanks, good feedback - we we hoping that the price sliders were obvious > enough, but I've been looking at this page for way too long now so it's > easy to overlook something that's might not be so obvious at first glance! > > Will feedback to the team - thanks. > > -Dan > > > > On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 2:44 PM, ctx2002 <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > > need a price range search function, i just can not find on your site. > > > > On Nov 17, 2:13 pm, "Dan Khan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[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 <http://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 <http://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] <mailto:[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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
