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Re: Question refering to car images

Snizbit — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:26:20 GMT

Im just a happy buyer of the software, but as a tekky, I have chosen to hand code sections of the front end (the web site) by extracting the data from the database. The backend (Craigs bit) is excellent at managing the car stock for the car sales men. The front end is easy to use and perfectly capable, and can be amended to look quiet different, but if you want something different you need to code it yourself.

I don't see a reason why what you have done on the BMW isn't possible, as clearly your techs have the some ability to code. What you need is a developer with competent knowledge of PHP and MySQL.

Re: Question refering to car images

Indie — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:29:00 GMT

Thanks everyone! Basically I'm not the tekky on this project but I'm trying to make life as easy as possible for the client, I probably shouldn't show anyone this at this point but as your all being so helpful this is the design http://domain2719838.sites.fasthosts.com/ use the BMW link to see how the site will sort of play out! Craig, I have emailed you/your sales guys for a quote for inserting the code into this template as the client is keen to get up and running obviously so I am waiting on a quote and I'll also throw it over to the tekkys see if they can figure out how to do it but look forward to hearing from you guys in due course.

Re: Question refering to car images

Craig — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 11:32:28 GMT

Thanks Snizbit. I think your solution is possible, although I suspect Indie would want a single full-size high-resolution version of one image, so it'd be necessary to inject it into the DOM.

Ultimately, I think it's probably best to create a new carlist.js which implements the functionality ... it's a little too different to the standard image pop-up.

Re: Question refering to car images

Snizbit — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 11:23:05 GMT

It could be done with a little jquery I think ?? something like ..

this will add a class after every ol#autodirector_pics a img called listitem_1,2,3....
than add listitem_1,2,3 css into the css file with a larger width/height for listitem_1 than for 2,3,4.

set the thumbnail size in autodirector to the size for listitem_1 and hey presto.

I don't think that is exactly right - but its close....

Re: Question refering to car images

Indie — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 09:36:38 GMT

Thanks Craig, let me get back to my client and see how they would like to move forward and I will get back to you.

Re: Question refering to car images

Craig — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 15:00:07 GMT

Hi Indie,

Images can be any size you like - you set the dimensions in the site settings.

You could have a single large image, but it can't be done by the standard application. A little custom development is required and that would cost far more. Contact us directly if you're interested.

Has anyone else adapted a showroom like Indie describes?

Question refering to car images

Indie — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 14:36:36 GMT

Hi we want to integrate this system into our template but require for each car 4 thumbnails and one big image. Is it possible to easily change the size of the thumbnails (as they need to be a little bigger than your example if poss) and is it possible to have a larger image?

I hope that all makes sense!

Hope you can help

Regards

Re: Inventory Page

Craig — Mon, 24 May 2010 13:26:47 GMT

I would remove all z-index references.

Have you used a WYSIWYG application to generate the HTML? They're not always the best at creating code and it's become far more complex than it need be.

Re: Inventory Page

bdealer — Mon, 24 May 2010 12:43:20 GMT

Should I change it to 0, or completely remove any reference I see...

Sorry, I'm still an HTML rookie!

Re: Inventory Page

Craig — Mon, 24 May 2010 07:12:47 GMT

Look through your HTML page code and remove all references to "z-index: 1;".

Re: Inventory Page

bdealer — Sat, 22 May 2010 02:21:07 GMT

Sorry to be such an idiot - but how can i correct it?

Thanks in advance...

Re: Inventory Page

Craig — Mon, 17 May 2010 07:15:00 GMT

Hi,

You have "z-index: 1;" assigned to all your navigation DIV elements. That'll put them above other items.

I hope that helps.
Craig

Inventory Page

bdealer — Fri, 14 May 2010 15:08:36 GMT

Please take a look at frankincars.net inventory page. When you click on a car and actually use the picture viewer the menu overlays the picture.

Any advice?? Thanks in advance...

Re: V2.0

Craig — Tue, 04 May 2010 07:53:48 GMT

There is no schedule for a v2.0 release at this time.

V2.0

Impact-Players — Tue, 04 May 2010 03:51:44 GMT

Any idea on when v2.0 might be released?

Re: Tweet this button for each car listing

Craig — Sun, 02 May 2010 08:24:51 GMT

It really depends how it's done. There are a few issues, e.g. the control panel doesn't necessarily know where your showroom is hosted so it would be a little tricky to generate a link. We'll look into it.

Re: Tweet this button for each car listing

slim — Sat, 01 May 2010 15:38:06 GMT

How hard would it be to implement?

Re: Tweet this button for each car listing

Craig — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 14:11:27 GMT

Great idea!

Tweet this button for each car listing

slim — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 14:06:06 GMT

A "Tweet this" button for each car listing would be a great addition.
I could then automaticly tweet every new listing as i add it.
Search engines are loving twitter right now.

Re: Change Order By

Craig — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 07:12:53 GMT

Hi,

AutoDirector doesn't have categories, but I'd suggest:

1. Change the "more information" box to have the category name at the start, e.g. "Caravan: this is a ...".

2. Now open client/carlist.js in an editor. After between lines 61 and 72 you'll see the sorting types. Add these lines somewhere in that list (e.g. if you want them first, add them before "price, highest first"):

sortTypes[st++] = { name: "category, A-Z", sort: function(a, b) { return SortCars(a.info, b.info, 1); } };
sortTypes[st++] = { name: "category, Z-A", sort: function(a, b) { return SortCars(a.info, b.info, 1); } };

I hope that helps.

Craig

Change Order By

Impact-Players — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 03:02:24 GMT

Is there any way of adding categories such as Campers, Poptops, Caravans and Motorhomes in the order by? This would make it easy for my customers to find the type of RV they require. Any other suggestions on how to solve this would be appreciated

Re: Year Field

Craig — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 11:46:24 GMT

Hi,

Removing the year from the control panel is a little tricky because several things depend on it (such as ordering the vehicles). However, it could be removed from the showroom itself with a simple update to carlist.js. Is that what you need?

Craig

Year Field

allan — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 11:07:00 GMT

Hi Craig,
is it possible to adjust the 'YEAR' field to accept text ie 'NEW' or 'USED' or even leave it blank?
Thanks
allan

Re: Firefox and IE8

Craig — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 13:16:54 GMT

It looks OK to me in Firefox and IE8?

I think the DOCTYPE is a red-herring - I'd guess that CSS is the problem. You have an unnecessarily complex page with lots of inline styles, positioning and z-index declarations (it looks as though it's been generated by a WYSIWYG app). It's not likely to work in all browsers and it's certainly causing issues for the expanding photos.

Firefox and IE8

allan — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 12:44:22 GMT

Hi Craig,
everything works perfect in IE8 with no Doctype, but FF and Safari looks all messed up, tried changing doctype to but that messes up IE8 as well.
Can you help, see http://www.jacobtrucks.ie/STOCKLIST.html
Many thanks
allan