My first website. feed back appreciated

[Leah]

I have been working on my fashion jewelry website since this January. Any suggestion is welcome.

www.aleradesign.com

Thank you.

[Wendy James]

Very impressive. Great look. Only suggestion I would have is change the buy now buttons to say something like more info or something because it is not actually putting the items into your cart, just taking you to the description page.

 

 

Might suggest removing the welcome guest message or changing the color or something. Stands out and kind of looks out of place on a site that is so pretty.

[rommany]

Very clean and nice images, not sure about the header logo, your images are very bright and cheerful but you logo lets it down.

 

Some of you images are very large over 100000 just for one image alone, look to reduce them, i reduced my ones from 100000 to 10000 just by changing them to gif.

 

again nice looking site and good luck m8

[Leah]

Very impressive. Great look. Only suggestion I would have is change the buy now buttons to say something like more info or something because it is not actually putting the items into your cart, just taking you to the description page.

Might suggest removing the welcome guest message or changing the color or something. Stands out and kind of looks out of place on a site that is so pretty.

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Thank you very much. Your suggestion is helpful. I definitely will change them.

[ksaun]

Take 2 steps out of your checkout process and streamline your site, and its easy!

 

Get rid of the "Welcome Please Sign In" Page, this page stops people in their tracks and will hurt your sales.

 

Use this to take the "Welcome Please Sign In" Page and the "Account Created Success" Page out of your checkout process but still collect all their info and create an account or to "Sign In" if they already have an account.

 

http://www.oscommerce.com/forums/index.php?sho...60entry598660

 

Check it out :thumbsup:

[Leah]

Take 2 steps out of your checkout process and streamline your site, and its easy!

 

Get rid of the "Welcome Please Sign In" Page, this page stops people in their tracks and will hurt your sales.

 

Use this to take the "Welcome Please Sign In" Page and the "Account Created Success" Page out of your checkout process but still collect all their info and create an account or to "Sign In" if they already have an account.

 

http://www.oscommerce.com/forums/index.php?sho...60entry598660

 

Check it out  :thumbsup:

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Keith,

Thank you for your suggestion. But the link above doesn't show the information you mentioned. Can you give me a new one?

[Wendy James]

from his post on another thread when i pointed out the link didnt work...

 

 

 

As Homer Simpson would say "Doooooh!"

 

It was working earlier, don't know what happened, so here are the instructions

 

Open up checkout_payment.php and find:

 

CODE

// if the customer is not logged on, redirect them to the login page

 

if (!tep_session_is_registered('customer_id')) {

 

$navigation->set_snapshot();

 

tep_redirect(tep_href_link(FILENAME_LOGIN, '', 'SSL'));

 

}

 

Change it to:

 

CODE

// if the customer is not logged on, redirect them to the login page

 

if (!tep_session_is_registered('customer_id')) {

 

$navigation->set_snapshot();

 

tep_redirect(tep_href_link(FILENAME_CREATE_ACCOUNT, '', 'SSL'));

 

}

 

Then:

 

In checkout_shipping.php change:

 

CODE

tep_redirect(tep_href_link(FILENAME_LOGIN, '', 'SSL'));

 

 

To:

 

CODE

tep_redirect(tep_href_link(FILENAME_CREATE_ACCOUNT, '', 'SSL'));

 

 

and if you want to get rid of the "Account Created Success" window that pops up after they create their account do this:

 

In create_account.php

 

Change

CODE

tep_redirect(tep_href_link(FILENAME_CREATE_ACCOUNT_SUCCESS, '', 'SSL'));

 

to

 

CODE

tep_redirect(tep_href_link(FILENAME_CHECKOUT_SHIPPING, '', 'SSL'));

 

this will remove the thank you message after account creation to speed up checkout. You no longer see create_account_success.php, it goes right to shipping.

 

With this process you have just removed 2 steps from the lengthy cart process, and removed the Dreaded "Become a Member" Page that scares of potential customers, and you still get them to sign in and get them to create the account.

 

Is this great or what?

[Leah]

from his post on another thread when i pointed out the link didnt work...

As Homer Simpson would say "Doooooh!"

 

It was working earlier, don't know what happened, so here are the instructions

 

Open up checkout_payment.php and find:

 

CODE

// if the customer is not logged on, redirect them to the login page

 

if (!tep_session_is_registered('customer_id')) {

 

$navigation->set_snapshot();

 

tep_redirect(tep_href_link(FILENAME_LOGIN, '', 'SSL'));

 

}

 

Change it to:

 

CODE

// if the customer is not logged on, redirect them to the login page

 

if (!tep_session_is_registered('customer_id')) {

 

$navigation->set_snapshot();

 

tep_redirect(tep_href_link(FILENAME_CREATE_ACCOUNT, '', 'SSL'));

 

}

 

Then:

 

In checkout_shipping.php change:

 

CODE

tep_redirect(tep_href_link(FILENAME_LOGIN, '', 'SSL'));

To:

 

CODE

tep_redirect(tep_href_link(FILENAME_CREATE_ACCOUNT, '', 'SSL'));

and if you want to get rid of the "Account Created Success" window that pops up after they create their account do this:

 

In create_account.php

 

Change

CODE

tep_redirect(tep_href_link(FILENAME_CREATE_ACCOUNT_SUCCESS, '', 'SSL'));

 

to

 

CODE

tep_redirect(tep_href_link(FILENAME_CHECKOUT_SHIPPING, '', 'SSL'));

 

this will remove the thank you message after account creation to speed up checkout. You no longer see create_account_success.php, it goes right to shipping.

 

With this process you have just removed 2 steps from the lengthy cart process, and removed the Dreaded "Become a Member" Page that scares of potential customers, and you still get them to sign in and get them to create the account.

 

Is this great or what?

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Great and easy.

Keep up good work!