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New store! Feedback is appreciated!


queenkristine

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Hello! I just went live with my store. Please let me know what you think, as I have never done this before! This is a baby clothes store, just so you know.

Jonesy Good Stuff

Thank you!

Kristine

 

You have a good beggining.

Things I would change:

1)More consistancty in fonts and font sizes.

2)A lot of wasted space in the header.

3)Roll over hyperlink text colour disapears into the background

Backup before making changes. Backup before making changes! Backup before making changes!!

 

You did do a backup? eh?

Posted

Agreed + more

 

 

CONS:

 

Stay in font families

 

Too much white space

 

Center contents more, this will displace some of the too-much-white-space aspect of the pages

 

Roll-overs are impossble to see

 

The logo would be better if the background on it match the background across the header, so that it was JUST the words. The blue blocking is no use and makes it look bad

 

Color schemes are important, you can find websites that show which colors compliment other colors. Stick with the same color familys. THink of it like dressing yourself.. would you wear Light baby blue pants and a Forest Green Shirt? No... and hopefully you would dress you children that way also.

 

Get rid of the osCommerce default cartoons, the make it worse.

 

 

PROS:

 

I do like the next buttons that you've placed there.

 

You've managed to change the layout enough so that it doesn't look like a lot of out-of-the-box-stock-stores that people continue to use.

 

Secure account area is a BIG plus for you

 

I like the font style used in the images in the category menu. Though out of the ordinary fonts are impossble to use on a web site and unless they are all graphics. If you use a font like, example: ophedia it may look great on your system because you have that font installed. But 99% of the rest of the world won't see that (unless they have that font installed too). What happens is that their system will use the next font it feels is the closest match ---- and trust me.. it does match well. So the page can be thrown off or look terrible. All in all ... just be careful when choosing fonts.

 

SUGGESTIONS:

 

Find a means to separate the menu bars or the tables better. I see you have a faint white border around them, but it is nearly impossible to see. Either darken the baby blue background so that the white border lining and the white roll-overs stand out more or darken the borders and the roll-overs. Either way, one of them needs to be changed.

 

Place your pages within table in order to keep a fixed size. If I manually resize my window the web page shrinks with it also. It shouldn't. Make it approximatley 700 px wide at most. That will fill the screen for the typical 17" monitor at a standard resolution.

My Contributions

 

Henry Smith

Posted

:lol: Thanks for all the great input so far!

 

Yes I agree with a lot of the points you both made, esp you custodian, many thanks for such an in depth study.

 

The menu font is actually gif files that I modified the code to display.

I am racking my brain over how to make ALL the fonts consistant, but I should be able to make a function to change that np.

 

I need to take a look at the colors again, yes, I think mabye I was thinking of painting my house rather then selling clothes.

 

And the fix for the table is straight forward, thx esp for the solid 700, now I don't have to look it up!

 

Yeah! thanks again.

 

Queen

Posted
:lol: Thanks for all the great input so far!

 

Yes I agree with a lot of the points you both made, esp you custodian, many thanks for such an in depth study.

 

The menu font is actually gif files that I modified the code to display.

I am racking my brain over how to make ALL the fonts consistant, but I should be able to make a function to change that np.

 

I need to take a look at the colors again, yes, I think mabye I was thinking of painting my house rather then selling clothes.

 

And the fix for the table is straight forward, thx esp for the solid 700, now I don't have to look it up!

 

Yeah! thanks again.

 

Queen

 

I like the layout and the colors fit the theme nicely. The only thing that I feel could be bettered is the category images and descriptions (try to be consistant, like teesy's with a pic of a Tee). Some of the other issues have been addressed so keep up the good work.

armadillo

www.djscollectables.com

Posted

I agree with the comments above that the fonts should be of one family. The category font is really nice but gets too close to the white border.

 

Maybe everybody knows what onesies and tees are... I don't. I have to actually select one item to see on the product info page what it is. Then I have to do the same with the other category. Not a good start to sell me something.

 

The shopping cart font is way too big and the box too small. It also disappears out of sight (left bottom) so I have to scroll to see what's in it. When I add a new item it appears in a much smaller red font making me think if something is wrong with it.

 

The images in the shopping cart are stretched and look like they are for very weighty babies.

 

The info link layout does not match the actual info page. If I select shipping I also get info on returns which I would have expected rather to come together with privacy as it's so close to this entry.

 

I like your buttons but they should all be at least the same height if not the same width if displayed next to each other as on the shopping_cart.php.

 

The clothes you sell have cheeky slogans and pictures on them. Match the colors to go with this. The blue is just very bland. You should also think about the logo which looks out of place. It's not left and not centered and the text is just ordinary. You can do much better!

 

abra

The First Law of E-Commerce: If the user can't find the product, the user can't buy the product.

 

Feedback and suggestions on my shop welcome.

 

Note: My advice is based on my own experience or on something I read in these forums. No guarantee it'll work for you! Make sure that you always BACKUP the database and the files you are going to change so that you can rollback to a working version if things go wrong.

Posted

Once again, thanks to everyone for the feedback. Here are the changes I have made.

 

Changed the Logo size, etc.

 

Added a border around the menu items on the left that is visible.

 

Made the size of the page static at 700px.

 

Reworked the "fonts" (they are actually graphics BTW, see code below)

 

Made sure everything flows accordingly.

 

 

To anyone that is wondering how I changed the item list to a graphic instead of Text, here is a snipit of code.

 

I added this function to general.php

 

function infomod ($mangled){

$mangled=strtolower($mangled);

$img_tag=".gif";

$graphic=DIR_WS_IMAGES;

$graphic.=$mangled.$img_tag;

return $graphic;

}

 

Then you can simply add that function inline to the array like so:

 

example from information.php

 

$info_box[] = array('text' =>'<img border=0 src="'. infomod(BOX_HEADING_INFORMATION) .'"></a><br>');

 

Add a graphic to the images/ folder that matches the variable in english.php, and it will mangle it and add .gif to the end. Vola!

 

Once again thanks everybody for the input! Please checkout the updated version. I think I am making some real progress thanks to you all.

 

Queen

 

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