[thelist] E-Commerce and Web Standards? Frightcatalog.com
Kyle Bradshaw
kyle at frightcatalog.com
Wed Jan 26 13:36:43 CST 2005
I have been making standards based websites for a couple years now, however
the time has come for a redesign of a major holiday (Halloween) ecommerce
site. This place gets about 5000 uniques/day in the off season and upwards
of 30k uniques/day in season. I'm worried about building a standards based
site because I have had compatibility issues with sites in the past (keeping
css hacks down to a minimum). We don't have a large team here to debug and
see errors across many different browsers and configurations (like I know
some major standards based sites probably do). Mainly I'm worried about
those layout-breaking-problems that could slip through the cracks on
non-mainstream browsers or browsers I can't test for. As an ecommerce site
it is imperative that it can be viewed by everyone regardless of what
browser they're using.
I'm concerned with building off of solid 3 column layouts that have been
proven to be compatible with many older browsers.
Suggestions / Resources from anyone that has dealt with this potential
predicament before would be helpful.
Has anyone attempted this? What are the pitfalls?
More detailed information is as follows:
Most of our surfers are in the 1024x768 and 800x600 resolution range
Our customers are mostly of the non-technical variety employing these
browsers:
>From top to bottom we
MSIE 6.x 74%
AOL 9.x 8%
Netscape 7.x 7%
MSIE 5.0x 3%
MSIE 5.5 2%
Safari 1.x 2%
Firefox 1%
Others 3%
Kyle Bradshaw
Technical Operations
Fright Catalog, Inc.
100 Barber Ave. Unit F
Worcester, MA 01605
Email: kyle at frightcatalog.com
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