Google Adsense Sidebox

[brisbanetimeout]

Hi... thanks for that... mine is now scolling the products but the pictures are all squashed... I read the readme file int he zip file and it shows you the height, time ect settings to change which I did but the pictures or sidebox did not alter in size at all.. I hit the refresh button to and nothing changed at all...

Am I missing something ??

Lok at the site here
http://www.timeoutmassage.com.au/zen...php?main_page=

Thanks
Dave

[Ajeh]

NOTE: v1.2.6 has several bugs and issues that you should really try to get upgraded to at least v1.2.7 ... if you are not ready for the leap to v1.3.x ...

[gilby]

Hi... thanks for that... mine is now scolling the products but the pictures are all squashed... I read the readme file int he zip file and it shows you the height, time ect settings to change which I did but the pictures or sidebox did not alter in size at all.. I hit the refresh button to and nothing changed at all...

Am I missing something ??

Lok at the site here
http://www.timeoutmassage.com.au/zen...php?main_page=

Thanks
Dave

I haven't looked at this for a while but your scroller seems to have a fixed image size of 100*80, whereas your stock images are 80 high with floating width. Its the fixed 100 width in the scroller that is squashing your images. You need to make this floating, unfortunately I will be away for 10 days so won't be able to help you further at this time.

[Sermonzone]

Mine is modified it so that it validates & starts on a random item each time it appears.

Sounds like a great modification. Care to post the details?

[brisbanetimeout]

Oh buggar... it would be great if someelse can help me... I think the floating image thing might be spot on... but duont know how to change it... have a look at my webpage and you will see what I mean.... the pictures in the "New Products" window are all squashed and I have editted the heights in the whats_new.php file as stated in the scrolling_whats_new module but it has no change at all and this makes sense about its locked on a fixed hieght as he outlines in above reply... also when you click on a product you will see the picture looks ok in that screen but it has another area where a picture looks like should be but it has the "Picture not avaialable" icon... dont know how to get rid of this either...

Would love some help as this would complete my shopping cart...
Website can be seen here ....
http://www.timeoutmassage.com.au/zen/

Kind regards
Dave

[wasana]

Brisbane Dave -

your page takes forever to load

I think what happens with both the 'new products' and 'specials' scrolling sideboxes is that they load all the images that would be displayed on those listing pages - I use scrolling specials and changed display to 6 from 12 and saved a big hit on loading speed. with new products it might have loaded all your new products... the page displayed and kept loading for minutes under high speed. page size is over 686KB - goodbye customers...

you seriously need to do image optimization too (on top of managing how many images display for the scroller) ... look at the image handler contribution - it will improve things dramatically - both look and function.

if you are interested in speed you might want to look on the forum/FAQ about speeding up the site by eliminating category counts and a few other things -

wait, isn't this thread about adsense...

[brisbanetimeout]

Hi,

does it take a long time to load... I went to a freinds computer who has cable (normal broadband) and it took less than 5 seconds to load ??? .. Did you have your 14,400 bps modem hooked up ??

Seriously was it slow ?? Can other people mind checking it out for me and let me know what you think as I have to put another 300 products on there yet...there is 350 products on there now....
www.timeoutmassage.com.au/zen

Thanks
Dave

[wasana]

I do hope someone else responds so you don't think I'm trippin... (you could make a new post - 'that guy said my site is slow, and I think he is crazy' - and 'does it matter' you'll definitely get evaluated.

your friend must have a pipe running through his phone line...of course you would get some outlines and images etc showing up in just a few seconds, but your site keeps loading for a very long time...a veeeerrryy looonnngg time. look at it with the Status Bar turned on. Firefox pegs your page size at over 812KB... do a search on the web about recommended page size...

your images are over 20KB each - that alone will tell you your site is slow to load - if your friend has visited your site before, these images might be cached. you'll be very happy with the image handler contribution... I think that scrolling sidebox is wreaking havoc on you too... (again all new product pics getting loaded)

you might want to look at your site with Firefox and the web dev tool kit - view your homepage http://www.timeoutmassage.com.au/ with FF and the header is broken (different width) - nice chiropractic affect on the skeleton...your home page is over 100K too...

I have ADSL which sometimes is up moving at over 300 - however, today in our real world test I was getting a meager 77 kbps... most users are going to visit you using IE, and maybe they don't care that it takes minutes to stop loading, and maybe your demographic all have consistently high high-speed connections, but in the interest of internet harmony and zen-like ecommerce I thought I'd let you know.