jQuery AJSON Eüröpl8 builder

[ajcates]

First and foremost I Only tried to match the current design. Please judge this functionality wise. I know it's a table based layout eventually I will be changing… sadly for some reason it's a slow process. Currently the shopping buttons don't work and it's more of a design mock up. Over the next few days I will be integrating various parts of what I have built here into other parts of the site(It's ran on the biggest POS CMS ever).

K now that I said that… what do you guys think of the plate builder?

Also If you have any idea's on what I can do to just generally improve the site over all I would love to hear your ideas.

http://customeuropeanplates.com/

[ajcates]

Bump. It went live.
http://www.customeuropeanplates.com/

[simplistik]

The plate builder is fine, but from a markup/optimization perspective why are all the plates separate images? you could easily make it a single sprite, make it a bg and then just adjust it's position.

also looking at your json calls i see that it's calling things like offsets and all that jazz, but there are only 3 possible templates. why aren't these things just assigned to classes instead?

from a usability standpoint it may be helpful if you showed the allowable characters for the license plates somewhere. I was kinda surprised that you can use a period as a valid character.

[ajcates]

The plate builder is fine, but from a markup/optimization perspective why are all the plates separate images? you could easily make it a single sprite, make it a bg and then just adjust it's position.

also looking at your json calls i see that it's calling things like offsets and all that jazz, but there are only 3 possible templates. why aren't these things just assigned to classes instead?

from a usability standpoint it may be helpful if you showed the allowable characters for the license plates somewhere. I was kinda surprised that you can use a period as a valid character.

When I originally wrote the plate builder it was statically fixed on the page while the user could scroll though the some odd 60+ different license plate styles we offer so that is why I load them via ajax.

I did not code the letter checking, I would never have an onkeyup attribute in my html. In my personal version of the site that I will be building soon I will make sure to tell people the letters we offer and the price of the plates.

The idea for having the letter positioning and stuff in the css is genius. I will have to pass back a plateTemplateType or something in the json then apply the type as a class to the plate div.

[Digitalosophy]

I'm typing my name in but it's not showing on the license plate.

[Dj-Studios]

Yea Mac FireFox 3.5.8 (latest) doesn't update the text or image.

[ajcates]

Yea Mac FireFox 3.5.8 (latest) doesn't update the text or image.

I just tested it in Firefox 3.6(the actual latest if your not an add-on whore), 3.5.6 and 3.5.8 in OSX 10.6 and 10.5. All was working great.

Did you by chance happen to notice any javascript errors or something else to help me identify the issue?

[sekasi]

Chrome & Firefox 3.6 on Win7 not updating the text in the box :(

Works in IE though ;P

[Dj-Studios]

The text doesn't update if I try and select a different plate first. If I do nothing at first but change the lettering it works. The plate never changes for me though at any time.

[ajcates]

Are you guys using the plate builder on the home page or the one at /platebuilder ?