www.mid-enginemania.com

Still working on it. Forums not working yet but will be soon. Paypal is the only payment method right now and still have tons of products to ad.

Dedicated to the 914 only.

If you see any problems or mistakes please email me at midenginemania@gmail.com.

Let me know what you think.

jonathan
hwgunner

Gunner,
Website Professionally Formatted, nice work.

Do you prefer your sales come in from E-Bay, You Website, 914 World or on the phone?

Also you have your Brad Penn Tanny Fluid/4 Qt. Oil/Air Filter on Ebay but not on your site? Best by phone I guess. Ebay the profits?

If you do not see it on the site please call me and I will get it done for you. Yes, ebay the profits!

jonathan

- It fails W3C validation. Nothing major, but something you should have your programmer look into.

- The code looks like it was hacked together by a 12 year old. Not a deal breaker, but usually a indication of the (lack of) quality on the programmers end.

- Someone obviously likes jQuery. Which is a OK framework to use. Just tell your programmer that his inline JavaScript blocks need a "type" attribute added to be W3C compliant.

- Some of the links and image sources use convoluted windows style relative path names. There's no need for that and it can potentially break the links.




I don't know what your programmer uses to do his magick, but there's a very helpful plugin for Firefox called "HTML Validator" that let's you easily check your code for W3C compliance.

This is why there are IT Pros like Sir Andy out there, for those of us with "other expertise" & none in this arena!

Well Jonathan, it looked good to this non-pro here & it sounds like Andy will get you set straight!

Oh, and kudos to Andy too, cuz I'm sure that took some time for him to check out your website on that pro bono for a fellow Teener!

Those are some harsh words!

I use the online W3C validator to check my work but I'll check out the firefox one. I've gone through a few times to fix the validation problems but I obviously missed some. Not sure how to fix those unescaped &'s because the links are automatically generated by the product name. So if Jonathan puts an ampersand in the product name, it is automatically in the link and picture description as an &.

The ../../ thing was just a temporary workaround while I was trying to get my %%ShopPath%% to work properly. Don't worry, I fixed it.

Also, I don't know Java Script so I have to use Jquery where I can. I noticed those missing attributes when I checked the compliance earlier so I'll put those guys in.

I know in Germany, 12 year olds are the equivalent of American 21year olds so I'll take that as a compliment.

Thanks for the feedback,
-Brett

Harshness is in the eye of the beholder.
Where i come from, people appreciate when other people say it the way they see it.

I've been writing computer software since 1978. That's 33 years. That's what i do for a living.
So yes, i am opinionated.


Even dynamically generated HTML can be formatted in a way to make the code easier to read.
You'd be surprised at the benefits of code indentation while debugging.

As for the &, simply print them out as:



in your script ...

Thanks, I do appreciate your feedback.
I didn't write the software for the shopping cart system so I don't have much control over the formatting and how it prints symbols, but I'll take another look at the code I did put in there to see if I can't clean it up a bit.
-Brett

personnaly i like it when parts descriptions also have a link to installation instructions.that way i know if i am capable of installing the product myself. (before i purchase)

just my .02 cents

Site Map and search function now work!

No Priority Mail? Small parts in a flat -rate envelope cost half of UPS Ground...

The Browse Products box should have all the products show up, shouldn't it? I tried adding a throttle cable and a upper injector seal, and noticed that the cart showed items that did not show under Browse...

Got the browse part fixed. I am working on the shipping which is a little harder to do because at some point several items will no longer fit into a small flat rate box. I am working on it though to see what I can do.

jonathan