MobiZenCart

[RixStix]

Say what you want. I was just inquiring and offered what I saw. I made no comment regarding image size or the image being distorted... just layout.

To me, mobile means telephone sized handheld device. Tablet is a different device. Desktop is different. That is why I asked. Since there was not distinction, my initial assumption was mobile meant mobile based upon my perception and our customer's perception. I may be the only person in the world that makes that distinction but I would be surprised if that is true. None of the screen prints that I saw were representative of tablet display... just mobile telephone handheld devices.

I am sorry that you felt the need to make such a lengthy comment. It might be helpful to provide a disclaimer that out of the box this might not render well on tablet devices.

[DivaVocals]

Nice work as usual.. Been testing this on my Note 5 (as soon as the two Galaxy Tabs are charged up, I'll play there too..)

Coupla questions.. Point 4 of the description gives me the impression that I can use this theme and still offer a different "experience" or "look/feel" for tablets and desktops with this contribution. Am I understanding this correctly?? I could modify the theme so that the tablet (particularly the larger tablets) will have a different layout than the smartphone? I ask because IMHO it's nice when the larger tablet display is presented in a sort of "hybrid" of the smartphone and desktop presentation as opposed to being a "larger" version of the smartphone display.. (something my clients always ask for which is why I am asking this) Hoping I am understanding that this theme is flexible enough to allow me to do this..

Finally I checked out the other demos in your siggy (this is on the Samsung Note 5 smartphone) FYI two of them (Mobile: MobiZenCart: Osprey for ZCv1.5.4, MobiZenCart: Nokomis for ZCv1.5.4) show some kind of Asian characters as icons.. Not sure why.. thought you'd want to know..

[rbarbour]

I really like the fact that it doesn't look like, I mean function like every other mobile template out there where you have to click button after button after button before you actually see a product for sale.

I didn't have to much time to play with but I did notice the following:

1. I get no scroll on the off-canvas menu on my iphone.
2. The login page is all bunched up on my iphone (the labels sit to the right) unlike the mobile versions "template switch" on a desktop view <==(much cleaner looking IMO).
3. Google recommends a minimum tap target size of roughly 7mm, or 48 CSS pixels (maybe enlarging the icons would make it a bit more mobile friendly for us big fingered folks like myself).
4. Not to appealing on tablets (IMO).

All in All, I like it! Not that my opinion matters just thought I'd share. Nice work

Great contribution for the community!

[ultimate_zc]

Point 4 of the description gives me the impression that I can use this theme and still offer a different "experience" or "look/feel" for tablets and desktops with this contribution. Am I understanding this correctly?? I could modify the theme so that the tablet (particularly the larger tablets) will have a different layout than the smartphone?

You could add your own media queries in an css file or add a particular css file to load only for tablets. Use the code below for whenever you need elements to display on tablets.

if ($detect->isTablet()) {
     ...
} 

Finally I checked out the other demos in your siggy (this is on the Samsung Note 5 smartphone) FYI two of them (Mobile: MobiZenCart: Osprey for ZCv1.5.4, MobiZenCart: Nokomis for ZCv1.5.4) show some kind of Asian characters as icons.. Not sure why.. thought you'd want to know..

Thanks. I'll work on that later...

[ultimate_zc]

1. I get no scroll on the off-canvas menu on my iphone.
2. The login page is all bunched up on my iphone (the labels sit to the right) unlike the mobile versions "template switch" on a desktop view <==(much cleaner looking IMO).

1. I don't know what to say. The images below are from an iPhone. If I can't recreate the problem, I can't solve it.

2. Again, the images below. I thought the login page was pretty clean with plenty of white space. You can always add more space to it by modifying the css to your liking.

3. Google recommends a minimum tap target size of roughly 7mm, or 48 CSS pixels (maybe enlarging the icons would make it a bit more mobile friendly for us big fingered folks like myself).

Maybe in an update, meanwhile just like above, tweak the css. I'm sure you can modify it somewhat to meet your style. I ran the URL through the Google mobile test and it came back with good results.

4. Not to appealing on tablets (IMO).

There is only so much I can do with the default demo. Maybe by adding better images would help or maybe in an update I could open the left menu for tablets on landscape, who knows. I wanted to test whether the theme would be welcome before I put more time into it.

All in All, I like it! Not that my opinion matters just thought I'd share. Nice work
Great contribution for the community!

I welcome constructive criticism anytime. Anything that can be said in order to improve the theme is helpful. I do value your opinion regardless whether we disagree on different subjects. I assume that is why you said the above. You obviously know about mobile/responsive design. Your opinion is valuable and I thank you for it.

[breda]

Hi
I am trying out Mobizen Cart and so far it's great.
I have a few questions that I can't find an answer to in the read me file.
1. On my phone the icons for the menu, shop and search are not displaying. I think they use a font but when I look at the source code I don't see a link to a stylesheet for the fonts. How should those icons be loading into the template? i checked and the fonts are uploaded to the templates folder, the mobizencart one.

2. Second question is how to I get the Main Page text to show on the mobile device?
On the help file it says to open it in the define pages editor:
"If you don't need to modify the file, skip the textbox editor and simply hit the save button.

Your page on the mobile theme has been created and saved to the includes/languages/english/html_includes/mobizencart folder"
I did this but the page is not saved in the folder. the permissions on the folder is 755.

What am I doing wrong there please?
Thanks
B

[ultimate_zc]

It all sounds like not all of the files uploaded correctly. Try downloading the plugin again and make sure to upload all of the files to your installation.

The icons I use in that theme are found here: http://ionicons.com. The css file needs to upload and so does the fonts folder inside templates/mobizencart.

As for the main page. Make sure that the define_pages_editor.php file inside your admin folder overrides the one in your current installation. Make a backup of yours first. If you have made changes to your file, make sure to compare the files and add the code to yours. Incidentally that file was a contribution from Scott Wilson (thatsoftwareguy). That file saves a lot of work, no pun intended. If your installation is not saving the files then simply add a copy of your define_main_page.php to the languages/english/html_includes/mobizencart folder.

A link to your site would help also in order to inspect the source code.

Hope that helps.

[breda]

Thanks I'll try that.
B

[giancalr]

Hi I installed mobizen carts, and even seo url latest version, activating both will not work while the MObizencart disabling seo url works, is there any configuration to be changed? Thank you

[ultimate_zc]

That is not going to work. MobiZenCart is built with jQuery Mobile which kinda' rewrites the URL.