Adding to Cart

It would be good to have an option that when adding to cart that there is a permanent and static cart status indicator, rather than the pop up, that updates the total price dynamically as people choose different products from the same product page rather than having the distraction of the pop up advising that the product has been added to the cart. Customers would then have a constant reference of how much they have spent before deciding to go to checkout, without actually having to leave the page to see how much they have spent.
Love to know what others think! Johnboy