Guest deanril Posted March 28, 2003 Posted March 28, 2003 http://dmoz.org/Shopping/Vehicles/Parts_and_Accessories/Wheels_and_Tires/ Submitted a couple months ago, or longer I believe thank you in advance for checking this <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" alt="" />
Guest deanril Posted March 28, 2003 Posted March 28, 2003 Oh no............ I just read in another post, if you RE-SUBMIT you go back to the bottom........ I just resubmitted the other day... ah well maybe in 3 months eh? have fun guys!
Meta icxcnika Posted March 28, 2003 Meta Posted March 28, 2003 It's in there awaiting review, but it says it was submitted 3 days ago. [Edited] You figured it out faster than I did. It only sends you "to the bottom" if the editor steadfastly works on the oldest first. Curlie volunteer meta editor icxcnika
Guest deanril Posted March 28, 2003 Posted March 28, 2003 Thanks for checking it for me, appreciate your time. I wish I knew that , before I resubmitted, Would like to kick myself, because of the importance of this link, arghhh!! <img src="/images/icons/confused.gif" alt="" />
Guest deanril Posted June 12, 2003 Posted June 12, 2003 Checking back to see where Im at or possibly have been declined and not emailed, thank you very much for your time!
brmehlman Posted June 12, 2003 Posted June 12, 2003 Re: status : http://www.discountedwheelwarehouse.c The site has been listed in http://dmoz.org/Regional/North_America/United_States/California/Localities/R/Roseville/Business_and_Economy/Automotive/ . I was not able to make the shopping cart links work. I imagine if the reviewing editor had the same trouble, that would be why it wasn't listed in the category to which it was submitted.
motsa Posted June 12, 2003 Posted June 12, 2003 Re: status : http://www.discountedwheelwarehouse.c I think you mean http://dmoz.org/Regional/North_America/United_States/California/Localities/R/Roseville/Business_and_Economy/Automotive/ <img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" alt="" />
Guest deanril Posted June 12, 2003 Posted June 12, 2003 Re: status : http://www.discountedwheelwarehouse.c Thanks for checking that, we recieve about 20 orders a day, I just checked the shopping cart is working flawlessly. Can you get back to me on this>? Thank you
Guest deanril Posted June 12, 2003 Posted June 12, 2003 Re: status : http://www.discountedwheelwarehouse.c I submitted to http://dmoz.org/Shopping/Vehicles/Parts_and_Accessories/Wheels_and_Tires/ Almost 4 months ago it seems I submitted below recently http://dmoz.orgregional/North_America/United_States/California/Localities/R/Roseville/Business_and_Economy/Automotive/ Like a month ago, just to get some kind of listing to DMOZ, while waiting for my main link to http://dmoz.org/Shopping/Vehicles/Parts_and_Accessories/Wheels_and_Tires/ Can you give me the status on the listing to http://dmoz.org/Shopping/Vehicles/Parts_and_Accessories/Wheels_and_Tires/ Please?
brmehlman Posted June 12, 2003 Posted June 12, 2003 Re: status : http://www.discountedwheelwarehouse.c Thanks, motsa! It looks like everybody's mistyping that category name. Meanwhile, back at the topic. The site is awaiting review in that category, the url of which I'm not going to try to enter again, along with a moderate number of other submissions. But the shopping cart still doesn't come up with my Mozilla browser. There may be something in there that only works with Microsoft browsers. I'd really want to look into that if I were you. Most people use IE, so you may only lose a few customers, but if the reviewing editor is using a browser that your site doesn't support ...
Guest deanril Posted June 12, 2003 Posted June 12, 2003 Re: status : http://www.discountedwheelwarehouse.c Oh I see what you mean. Because I have pretty much checked everything with IE and Netscape, never thought of doing it in Mozilla. In looking in my logs I have 49 out of 2,666,934 hits for "MOOZILLA" I talked with my website designer, he said to make it compatable with the 1% or less of all browsers, and make the site 100% compatable with every browseer would cost me another $20,000. I only paid $5000 for the basic site, and I did all the filler. Do I have to do this? Im trying to weigh this, $20,000 worth of adwords or be compatable with 1% more? Any help would be greatly appreciated
brmehlman Posted June 12, 2003 Posted June 12, 2003 Re: status : http://www.discountedwheelwarehouse.c We really can't help you with site design issues. A cost/benefit analysis of browser compatability is way, way outside our scope. I will say that the percentage of Mozilla users seems to be higher among ODP editors than it is in the general population. And no editor will review what they can't see.
motsa Posted June 12, 2003 Posted June 12, 2003 Re: status : http://www.discountedwheelwarehouse.c >>Thanks, motsa! It looks like everybody's mistyping that category name. Dangnabbit!!! Deleted too much from the URL. It's been corrected. <img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" alt="" />
lachenm Posted June 12, 2003 Posted June 12, 2003 Re: status : http://www.discountedwheelwarehouse.c OK, first of all, modern Netscape (e.g. Netscape 7.x) is Mozilla, with a little Netscape advertising stuck in. Making a website compatible with Netscape should almost always make it compatible with Mozilla. But, more to the point, what Mozilla are you guys using? The shopping cart works fine in Mozilla 1.3 (Unix). If it works in Netscape, it most likely works in Mozilla 1.0 (I think 1.0 and 1.0.1 are the latest versions that Netscape has used -- but someone please correct me if I'm wrong).
dfy Posted June 12, 2003 Posted June 12, 2003 Re: status : http://www.discountedwheelwarehouse.c >> I talked with my website designer, he said to make it [...] 100% compatable with every browseer would cost me another $20,000. << Get another web designer. Professional web designers write code that will work on any current browser, it isn't difficult to do. If they aren't capapble of following web design standards, and they didn't bother to tell you that some customers wouldn't be able to see your site, why should you trust them with any more of your business?
Meta hutcheson Posted June 12, 2003 Meta Posted June 12, 2003 Re: status : http://www.discountedwheelwarehouse.c >Professional web designers write code that will work on any current browser, it isn't difficult to do. No, it isn't difficult. But ... "professional" just means you get paid for it, it doesn't mean you have a clue. A competant web designer may not be that easy to find. Now, I'm a Mozilla user, and if your site doesn't work under Mozilla, and you don't warn me up front that your web designer is a Font-Plague-wielding dufus, I will probably delete your submittal with a note "non-functional." If you post the "Intelligent surfers stay back, FPWD at work" message, I'll stay back and leave the submittal for some younger, braver, more foolish ODP editor with less valuable content to risk on his computer. Your choice.
dfy Posted June 12, 2003 Posted June 12, 2003 Re: status : http://www.discountedwheelwarehouse.c >> "professional" just means you get paid for it, it doesn't mean you have a clue << Ah yes, my mistake. I keep forgetting that "professional" just means 'someone that engages in an activity as a profession' (ie. someone that makes money out of doing something). This is how we can have "professional criminals", and "professional fraudsters". Please re-read my post substituting the word 'competent' for 'professional'.
Guest deanril Posted June 12, 2003 Posted June 12, 2003 Re: status : http://www.discountedwheelwarehouse.c Get another web designer. Professional web designers write code that will work on any current browser, it isn't difficult to do. If they aren't capapble of following web design standards, and they didn't bother to tell you that some customers wouldn't be able to see your site, why should you trust them with any more of your business? Thank you DFY, sound advice, I appreciate it! Now, I downloaded "Mozilla" it was 1.3 surfed my site bought 1 item, bought 10 items, worked Flawlessly. So I downloaded the latest 1.4b? Anyway surfed my site again bought 1 item, bought 10 items. Mozilla is working 100% perfect on my website. So I dont know what is up, I am not an expert in websites at all. I know a bit about Windows and Browsers, I really think we need a browser Cache delete, then re-surf my site. Thank you all for your very helpful comments, The $20,000 was to make it 100% compatable with every browser known to man, i think my designer was as frustrated as me, when he made the quote, and I appologize for coming off Sarcastic. Thank you again!
giz Posted June 12, 2003 Posted June 12, 2003 Re: status : http://www.discountedwheelwarehouse.c I note that you posted on another forum (WW) and were told that there were lots of obvious coding errors in the site. There are automated online tools that can give you a list of the errors in a matter of seconds. Try http://validator.w3.org/detailed.html for starters. The ODP does not insist on you using valid code or anything even remotely resembling HTML on your site, but everything you can do to make the code better will result in a better experience for your visitors. A teed off surfer isn't going to be a buyer, he's going to be an ex-visitor. Another USD 20 000? Hmmmm. Ask your designer about this [result] and this other [result] as I don't think you have had your moneys worth yet, for what you already paid out.
Guest deanril Posted June 13, 2003 Posted June 13, 2003 Re: status : http://www.discountedwheelwarehouse.c Thank you very much, I have used that, good to know! Thats nothing you should have seen when I started with the site. I had him move the Doctype to the top, where it should be, but his "coding" didnt like that starting doing crazy things to my portion of the site that I control, throwing my headers of to the left, total uncontrolable things like that. I wish i could remove all the gaps in the code aswell, and line 569 , my next web site(in 2 weeks) I will have complete control over the code, its being done by someone else, then Ill do all the "filler" again. The site does however for the surfer work just fine, we get many compliments on its ease of navigation, I havent seen any real errors due to these coding problems, visually that is. Thank you again for your great advice!
Guest deanril Posted August 19, 2003 Posted August 19, 2003 Re: status : http://www.discountedwheelwarehouse.c Im checking back in to see if the site is still waiting to be reviewed? Anyhelp would be greatly appreciated, thank you!
Meta kokopeli Posted August 19, 2003 Meta Posted August 19, 2003 Re: status : http://www.discountedwheelwarehouse.c It appears you are checking on http://dmoz.org/Shopping/Vehicles/Parts_and_Accessories/Wheels_and_Tires/ Your submission from 04/Jun/2003 is still pending there. The site is listed in Regional: North America: United States: California: Localities: R: Roseville: Business and Economy: Automotive in May.
Guest deanril Posted August 19, 2003 Posted August 19, 2003 Re: status : http://www.discountedwheelwarehouse.c Thankyou for checking that although there is a problem now, which I never thought of ....... I submitted 28/3/03 if you look at my first and second post you will see what I said. I made a mistake and resubmitted after waiting for 2 months. So now Ive been actually waiting about 7 months. I did not resubmit on jun04 2003. So what Im getting at is whom resubmited me? My email address I use is dean@discontedwheelwarehouse.com . I thinksomeone has resubmitted my site, I would not do that again, I allready blew 2 months by doing that. Is there something I can do about this? Otherwise someone is going to keep resubmitting my site an Ill never get in. Any help would really be appreciated at this point its literally been 7 months since my first submit.. I have the Regional which took all of 2 weeks, very speedy editor over there.
Meta hutcheson Posted August 19, 2003 Meta Posted August 19, 2003 Re: status : http://www.discountedwheelwarehouse.c Don't worry, be patient. The editor who cleans up that category may review in some order other than date (I never review in date order...) Yes, we know that quite often, Regional suggestions get handled more quickly than suggestions in backlogged Business or Shopping categories. It's a matter of editor interest and editing difficulty.
Guest deanril Posted August 20, 2003 Posted August 20, 2003 Re: status : http://www.discountedwheelwarehouse.c Well thanks! Ill wait longer, heheheh what else can I do..lol!
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