My 1st store

[kogepan]

Come check it out please! Im selling many different kinds of products. We offer free shipping. I spent lots of hours configuring so i hope it runs alright.

[Andrew Yuen]

Your design needs a lot of work. It is the basic free 7dana template. I would start with modifying your header to reflect what your website sells. On that note, I would modify the three icons in the right of the header. Second, your pictures take way to long to load and look very unprofessional. I suggest using a thumbnail contribution to minimize loading time and save bandwidth. I would also get a lightbox for more professional pictures. Finally I would take out the ?626 requests since Wednesday 28 June, 2006".

[kogepan]

cool the thumbnail contri was great! As for customizing it more. Well I dont want to spend loads of time on customizing it if my business would even expand. Not to mention i know Zencart would probably be a better choice if i wanted to fully customize my page. And im no expert on css and such...but thanks for the advance though

[Guest]

Well I dont want to spend loads of time on customizing it if my business would even expand.

 

I have to say, you are looking at this the wrong way around. Your business is less likely to expand if you don't make the effort to create a shop people want to use.

 

You have one of the things that I have commented on here so many times about, and people still do. You only have one language and one curreny, but you have kept the language and currency selection boxes. Why? It's so annoying to go there expecting to see another language and there being nothing.

 

Other than that there is not much to say, it's a very stock install, looks perfectly nice but nothing special.

 

Good luck with your store.

[my scrap shop G]

i know it's not a web comment but your logo is a bit tricky, I keep reading it as Great Price One. I think it's cool with the big "z" but perhapds you need to have the bullseye bit sit behind the "price" and the "z" a little bigger?

I don't love the grey colourscheme.

Your photos are dark, you'll need to spent some time on them - they look like you put them on the kitchen table and snapped a pic. Nothing wrong with that!! (I do some of mine on the shop's floor...) but you can edit them to still look professional.

There's a good contribution that resizes all of your images on the pop-up, so the customer doesn't have to drag the box out each time.

good job so far!

[Guest]

While you did a good job thus far making your site look unique, it does still need a bit of tweaking.

 

1 - turn off the category product count. No need to tell your customers how few products you have before they even tour your site.

 

2 - your checkout/my account/cart contents images in the header needs to be positions above their counterpart wording. Otherwise, what was the point of them?

 

3 - You still have the default "cartoon" images on pages such as Partners, Contact Us, etc. Either comment those images out or substitute them for something else. They just make your site feel unfinished.

 

4 - Your contact us page should have your company address, phone number, alternate email addys, hours of operation, etc. Give your customers the comfort of knowing you are a real company and not a "joe" trying to make a quick buck.

 

5 - I agree about the Language and Currency info boxes, not needed! And it's also not needed, perhaps, that you put USD in all your pricing. If you make it known on your main page that all prices are in US Dollars, that would eliminate having to add it to each pricing you do. Just a personal preference there.

 

6 - Perhaps comment out the line in the product descriptions about when the product was added to your catalog ...

 

Really, don't short change your site from the get-go = that will guarantee no sales. You need to work hard and frequently on tweaking the site to drive in traffic and sales.

 

7 - Ultimate SEO URLs would be great, super easy to install and makes your categories and products URLs search engine friendly!

 

Keep going - get more products - keep working on the site design. A website is never finished! Keep up the good work.

[kogepan]

thanks for all the feedback i finally got around and redesigned the whole site. Now it's more or less of how i want it to look. I installed Ultimate SEO URl much easier for the feeds to read. Got rid of the cartoon pix. So far my sell hasnt bloom yet, but now im tryin to find ways to advertise it....which seem like the hardest part.

[Brooke]

how do you get the specials for just that category to show up on the category page?

[kogepan]

how do you get the specials for just that category to show up on the category page?

You mean only the products that belong to that certain category to show up? Pretty much all I did was installed the Special Page Contrib and configured from there.

 

Hope that helps.

[abra123cadabra]

Most things are said already.

 

Although I'm using only one column on the right too, your layout looks incomplete on the product details. The right column is too long and leaves a lot of white space between the product details and the footer. This makes the right column look wrong.

 

The index page is too crowdy.

 

abra