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New store - PerfectlyPureSkincare.com


hollis3162

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Hi, just launched a new site - Perfectly Pure Skincare.

 

For any web developers just about to start implementing a new osCommerce store. This took me 4 weeks from start to finish and is my first osCommerce installation. I've been doing software development for a while and I found osCommerce really easy to customise. I don't think there was anything that I wanted to do that took longer than a few hours.

 

The contributions used, that I can remember:

 

Ultimate SEO URLs

Thumbnailer with caching

UK Based osCommerce

Purchase without account

 

Just got the usual order logging problems to solve next.

 

Jon.

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Solved the order logging problem for PayPal using the PayPal IPN contribution. This stops orders not showing up when a customer navigates away from PayPal before they've been redirected back to the site.

 

Would anyone like to give the site a review at all? Any criticism, good or bad, would be most appreciated.

 

Cheers,

Jon.

Posted

The site looks nice and clean, a bit plain.

 

How comes you have a PR of 7 for http://perfectlypureskincare.com/

 

but when i had the www bit it goes to 0.

 

Not sure what they would rank it a 7 but if they have happy days : )

 

Anyway, well done with the site.

 

Regards

Posted

Well done I like how your site is simple and easy to use. I would try creating a logo and changing the font's around to something more elegant especially on your main page.

Andrew Yuen

osCommerce, Community Team

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Most of the product descriptions are a personal recommendation from the site owner. The "About Us" page goes a fair way toward filling in the blanks on just who is recommending the avacado soap, but a picture is worth a thousand words.

 

The site is clean, well organized and....clinical. A bit of human element, be it pictures of shiny happy people or at least a picture of the site owners perfectly clear face would do alot towards bringing your "I use it and would recommend it" USP home.

My advice comes in two flavors- Pick the one that won't offend you.

 

Hard and Cynical: How to Make a Horrible osCommerce Site

 

Warm and Fuzzy: How to Make an Awesome osCommerce Site

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The client wanted a clean and simple look to the site and that's what she got. There won't be any pictures of shiny happy people, I'm afraid but I will be adding text (in Arial) to the homepage for SEO reasons. The About Us page and the Suppliers page are definitely in need of images. One of the owner would be nice as she's well fit.

 

I have no idea how we're getting a page rank of 7 without the 'www' prefix'. The only inbound link to the site at present is from this post and the osCommerce, live shop page!!

 

Right, I'm off to build another osCommerce site. A massive electical supplier. He's got 900 products all in an XML file, got to import it somehow.

 

Thanks for the your comments!!

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*bump*

 

Just after a bit more feedback/criticism, please. Good or bad.

 

nice site, well organized, but (you wanted criticism heh :D):

 

- the buttons are nice but they are pretty hard to read - i would change the font on buttons.

- i hate when on product listing when clicking on image the image resizes but does not show product info. i hate it because customers are clicking on the images all the time - so they would think there is no additional information about product.

- the logo really need to be changed - not necessary with some goodlooking beach babes

:P but with some real logo and not just plain text in border (i know this was not your decision).

 

there are many contribution to import products from xml file, you just have to check it in the contribution section.

 

keep on the good work,

Mike

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nice site, well organized, but (you wanted criticism heh :D):

 

- the buttons are nice but they are pretty hard to read - i would change the font on buttons.

- i hate when on product listing when clicking on image the image resizes but does not show product info. i hate it because customers are clicking on the images all the time - so they would think there is no additional information about product.

- the logo really need to be changed - not necessary with some goodlooking beach babes

:P but with some real logo and not just plain text in border (i know this was not your decision).

 

there are many contribution to import products from xml file, you just have to check it in the contribution section.

 

keep on the good work,

Mike

Posted

Cheers mate, I'll definitely look at the XML contributions.

 

I agree about the logo, it's not really a logo at all.

 

I think that when you click on the image within the product listing, where it shows all the products under that section, that it should just take you to the product_info page. I'll suggest this to the client.

 

I'll have a look at the buttons.

 

Cheers dude.

Posted

I like it, cosmetic feel for cosmetics if you know what I mean. One thing I'd do is use some slight shading or framing to take care of the huge feeling of space you get when you scroll to the bottom of the product pages.

 

Makes customers want to escape.

 

:thumbsup:

Posted

Nice looking site, from one Hollis to another! :)

 

My only bugbear would be that you can't navigate the categories at all if JavaScript is disabled as the entire menu bar disappears. Worth thinking about.

 

Good luck!

Posted
The client wanted a clean and simple look to the site and that's what she got. There won't be any pictures of shiny happy people, I'm afraid but I will be adding text (in Arial) to the homepage for SEO reasons. The About Us page and the Suppliers page are definitely in need of images. One of the owner would be nice as she's well fit.

 

I have no idea how we're getting a page rank of 7 without the 'www' prefix'. The only inbound link to the site at present is from this post and the osCommerce, live shop page!!

 

Right, I'm off to build another osCommerce site. A massive electical supplier. He's got 900 products all in an XML file, got to import it somehow.

 

Thanks for the your comments!!

I'm shocked you say your only inbound link to the site is from oscommerce as google shows you have 1,200 Backward Links

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