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Hi guys,

I am launching new website very soon.
Can you guys test the application and advise some valuable comments, so before it launched, I can tweak more.

Really appriciate in advance.
here is the link

http://autos.bestdeals.at/index.cfm

Thanks,
Asim
http://projects.myvnc.com

sparty2809

05-24-2004 @ 9:11 AM

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Posts: 435
Joined: Feb 2003

On the home page, I would make the graphics of the cars clickable along with the text.

You probably already know this, but the advertise link doesn't work on the home page along with the legal link and about link and contact link.

Other than that, looks pretty good!

sparty2809

Practice

05-24-2004 @ 12:16 PM

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thanks,

hi,
I asks for testing, coz I need to check all the funcationality of the application.

I haven't done with about,legal, contact aand advertise.

Could you guys plz. signup and try to post some ad. so in that way its possible to check the application.

dont' worry the data will be flushed before it goes online.

thanks

Thanks,
Asim
http://projects.myvnc.com

nmiller

05-24-2004 @ 1:33 PM

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The main problem is that your images are too big.  check out the results of a speed report:

http://www.websiteoptimization.com/cgi-bin/wso/wso.pl?url=http%3A//autos.bestdeals.at/index.cfm

It looks like none of your images are compressed.

1.  The title tag is still a default.
2.  Once you click on a car, what are you supposed to do?  Do i just email the person if I want their car?
3.  There should be a plainly visible 'sign up' link on the login page (not just in the menu)
4.  generated an error when uploading an .ico file. (you should check the cffile to make sure it's a jpg or gif,etc.)
5.  After updating profile, it forced a logout/login, but then said account was not verified.  Do you require verification on every profile update? (if so, i would caution against it, as it would be very cumbersome)
6.  the link from the "Your Account has been Validated" email to login doesn't work (http://autos.bestdeals.at/member/login.cfm)
7.  the validation email always has the error message - invalid link or already verified, but it does verify (i can log in)
8.  this generates an error:

http://autos.bestdeals.at/member/resendverify.cfm?id=a

you should validate URL data like this:

http://www.easycfm.com/forums/viewmessages.cfm?Forum=9&Topic=3448

Nathan Miller
NM Consulting

Practice

05-24-2004 @ 2:07 PM

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Miller,

Those are very valuable tips that you gave me,
Thanks alot.

Let me work on it.

Any more suggessions, that this should be done like this way (something like that)

thanks again for testing.

Thanks,
Asim
http://projects.myvnc.com

Practice

05-24-2004 @ 2:17 PM

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Posts: 116
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one more thing
rightnow,
I am sending HTML Emails, is there anyway that I can send both HTML and plain text and if user able to see HTML email, he get HTML email and if he is not then only Plain Text email shows up.

any possiblity with CFMAIL, any custom tag for that?

Thanks,
Asim
http://projects.myvnc.com

nmiller

05-24-2004 @ 2:58 PM

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If you're using CFMX

<cfmail ...>
<cfmailpart type="html">
html here
</cfmailpart>
<cfmailpart type="text">
text here
</cfmailpart>
</cfmail>

Nathan Miller
NM Consulting

RafaelQ

05-25-2004 @ 1:00 AM

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Posts: 107
Joined: Feb 2004

If I screw with your url var's, ex:
http://autos.bestdeals.at/display.cfm?recordID=18
to
http://autos.bestdeals.at/display.cfm?ZrecordID=18

The layout gets screwed up.

Also, when adding an account user first and last name accepts invalid character, EX:
!@#$%^&*()_+ as well as numbers.

Practice

05-25-2004 @ 1:24 AM

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Posts: 116
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Rafael,

Very nice tip, I fixed it up.

but I am thinking that how can I figure it out for the special characters in first name and last name fields, do I have to work around with some javascripts, or is there any special function/tag in cold fusion for that.
I am not using cfform.

thanks once again.

Thanks,
Asim
http://projects.myvnc.com

Webmaster

05-25-2004 @ 9:52 AM