Recruiting an opencart developer to build an audio player into my site

Diddums · 10 Apr 2016 at 19:43

I was being dead serious

One point I'd like to mention is that you don't seem to have a desktop mode button. Site looks great on mobile, but it's always the first thing I look for when browsing a site.

garyfl · 10 Apr 2016 at 20:15

desktop mode? its been coded to be responsive, should look great on a desktop are you referring to this domain ?

http://lib.thepatchbay.co.uk/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=283 - shady plug of my personal content

cheers

Diddums · 10 Apr 2016 at 20:35

No I meant when viewing on mobiles, there's no option to view desktop mode. Unless I'm just being thick.

garyfl · 10 Apr 2016 at 20:46

i know what you mean, problem is the framework is either responsive or it isnt. if its not it looks the same on all devices like the desktop and its not very nice ( dosent score me high on google insights either due to tap size) with it being responsive, it looks more like an app on mobile and more like a desktop database on the pc/laptop/tablet

garyfl · 14 Apr 2016 at 04:51

dayum, noticed other day someone changed my name to wang in the admin, GG

Scotty123 · 14 Apr 2016 at 05:09

You're really putting your heart and soul into this aren't you

. It's a good effort!

dmsims · 14 Apr 2016 at 10:44

You need to get an SEO extension ASAP

A product has a URL of e.g.

http://lib.thepatchbay.co.uk/index.php?route=product/category&path=177_257_297

ATM

Scotty123 · 14 Apr 2016 at 13:42

When I had a quick glance at the Opencart documentation out of curiosity, I noticed there was the option to enable SEO friendly links. Perhaps ticking that will generate the slugs for SEO of the product urls.

dmsims · 14 Apr 2016 at 13:46

That will only allow you to enter SEO data it won't change the product URL's

garyfl · 14 Apr 2016 at 21:52

Yeah it's on the list of things to do to tweak I'll look into it found some competition the other day splice sounds and they're destroying me even though I had the idea in 2012 never was able to financially portray it. Got a lot of market research to do but right now focusing on linking the global player to the products themselves and attaching in the sound cloud api etc

GCypher · 14 Apr 2016 at 23:27

Hey,
sorry for the late reply

anyway i had another look at your site, indeed looks nice and cool

Anyway if you need any tips regarding SEO or the Opencart let me know send me PM here if you wish

garyfl · 17 Apr 2016 at 03:30

Took the advice from this thread and the website is now coded to show Seo urls

Eg

http://lib.thepatchbay.co.uk/SYNTHWAVE-INSPIRATIONS-VOLUME-ONE-STUDIO-ARCADIA

dmsims · 17 Apr 2016 at 16:30

OK on the SEO it's a start

BUT you want a plan where all this is going

at the moment you have "SYNTHWAVE-INSPIRATIONS-VOLUME-ONE-STUDIO-ARCADIA"

get rid of the all caps

Volume one is not helpful (in SEO terms)

How many artists will you have (and categories) ?

I'll use an example to show where I'm going with this since I don't know your market / product very well

So for electric bikes we have Manufactures (artists in your case) categories and then the product itself

So a product URL might look like:

yoursite.co.uk/electric-bike/haibike/commuter/product

see the difference ?

garyfl · 17 Apr 2016 at 16:38

I see completely what you are saying

I'll have a play around

garyfl · 17 Apr 2016 at 16:38

Oh and the caps lock was on everything is just a test product anyway

garyfl · 17 Apr 2016 at 17:35

http://lib.thepatchbay.co.uk/Studio-Arcadia/FL-Projects/Synthwave/Synthwave-Inspirations

I did that but it results in the page not being found maybe I will have to replace the / with -

dmsims · 17 Apr 2016 at 21:10

Sorry - I should have been clearer - those slashes are not something you put in
The URL is formed by concatenating variables together:

garyfl · 20 Apr 2016 at 20:35

started plugging ads into facebook, recruiting designers now, had a change of plan. but in other news ive gained a partnership with timecop 1983 which is pretty sick !

https://soundcloud.com/thepatchbay/sets/timecop1983-synthwave-vs-dreamwave-tal-u-no62-lx-presets

Scotty123 · 20 Apr 2016 at 21:33

What was your change of plan?

garyfl · 21 Apr 2016 at 03:36

I originally emailed top people from the scene, but it's been a bit of a mess around and my now competitor seems to have them locked down in contracts. I have about 10 designers, but moving forward I'll just open it up so anyone can apply, it makes it more transparent and community driven.