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If you have been in chat for any length of time over the last two years, you know that I've been working on this site for my friends back home. Tonight, finally, a year after their store opened and they got to stop doing business from their house, their new website is open for business.

Thanks to everyone who helped me out over that time, Del, Mimic, and Mal especially in the last six months.

More comments at the DA link: http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/42304149/

This post has been edited by Rangers51 on 1st November 2006 03:05

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"To create something great, you need the means to make a lot of really bad crap." - Kevin Kelly

Why aren't you shopping AmaCoN? Or perhaps buying a really good looking shirt?

This may just be me, but if you take the effort and time to get a professionally made website look instead of doing your own bodge-job from a DIY-webpage kit, I'm more intrested in the products you have to offer.

So Coco-Bon chocolate has got their money's worth IMO, because it's a nice, functional site that doesn't clutter up the screen with information and lets you select what sweet treats you want qith a minimum of fuss. I think that you said you were aiming to have the website itself resemble a box of chocolates and it kind of does. Except this is a more predictable box of chocolates than Forrest Gump's box.

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So, no more chocolate woes Josh? Cause for a while there, you were scaring me a little bit discussing amaretto's and such...

The site looks great, and Coco-Bon got a great facelift and yeah, Coco-Bon is like a box of chocolates...but you get to pick what you're gonna get.

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Looks good, simple but friendly.

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cant believe i've passed this topic over! site looks great, man. helping test it was...interesting. got to find exatcly how not right my computer is

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Assortments are a bit generic, but then again, what isn't these days?

VERY nice layout - kudos to you. Simplicity's beauty is often overlooked, and nothing irks me more than a cluttered up page with flashy but useless features.

I do rather dislike the "store locator" feature, though, since there is only one store, so it's a bit misleading; might as well simply give a location and store hours page instead.

This post has been edited by Nepheliad on 7th November 2006 02:26

Oh my god, I totally remember this site from when you linked it in chat once. You were angry about how IE kept highlighting everthing when you dragged the chocolates into the boxes. Haha, good to see you got that problem worked out. Very nice job indeed.

This post has been edited by FallingHeart on 7th November 2006 00:43

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Assortments are a bit generic, but then again, what isn't these days?

VERY nice layout - kudos to you. Simplicity's beauty is often overlooked, and nothing irks me more than a cluttered up page with flashy but useless features.

I do rather dislike the "store locator" feature, though, since there is only one store, so it's a bit misleading; might as well simply give a location and store hours page instead.

Don't understand what you mean about the assortments being generic, sorry. The page is generic? Which one? Or the products available, or the photography? Only one of those things is anywhere near my control.

I suppose I could do that with the store locator. Clients have yet to complain, if they do then I'll bother changing it.

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"To create something great, you need the means to make a lot of really bad crap." - Kevin Kelly

Why aren't you shopping AmaCoN? Or perhaps buying a really good looking shirt?

Quote (Rangers51 @ 9th November 2006 00:33)

Don't understand what you mean about the assortments being generic, sorry. The page is generic? Which one? Or the products available, or the photography? Only one of those things is anywhere near my control.

I suppose I could do that with the store locator. Clients have yet to complain, if they do then I'll bother changing it.

Page ain't generic! No, just the assortment, and I figure that that's beyond your control. Besides, they look delicious, so it doesn't matter.

I dunno, the store locator thing just threw me for a loop for a moment because I'd ended up thinking that it's a chain store...