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
