New Online Wine Store

[wallscott]

I have launched a new Online Wine Store at http://www.5starwine.com/

I am interested in reading some of your feedback about the store.

 

Thanks in advance

 

Bryant

[dynamoeffects]

Looks like you spent a lot of time building up your product categories. My suggestions are:

• Lose the language and currency selector if there's only one choice for each.
  
• Add pictures of the bottles AND labels, not just the label.
  
• Add one of the dynamic category lists so that I don't have to refresh the page as I drill down to the category I want.
  
• The logo gets lost in the design. It should stand out more.
  
• The reviews should be on the same page as the wine description. People buy wine based on how pretty the label is, or what others tell them.
  
• Your SSL certificate doesn't work because your base href tag is set incorrectly.
  

I think the one thing that would make your store successful is if you built a wine suggestion where it asks the visitor a series of questions, and lists wines that they might like. Even better would be to make it more community based with forums and wines suggested by customers.

[♥bruyndoncx]

The categories box is unclear as the subcategories are not indented.

On the subcategory pages the list of subcategories is centered and too busy giving an unorderly effect.

I'd put less of them on a line and possibly left align and loose the dot.

 

A kind of wine guide would be ideal to add to your site.

for example if you had something like this chart http://www.vacuvin.nl/Be_Wine_Smart_387.html

with clickthrough so that you list particular wines matching that would make it much easier to find the right wine.

[Victor Wise]

Looks like you spent a lot of time building up your product categories. My suggestions are:

• Lose the language and currency selector if there's only one choice for each.
  
• Add pictures of the bottles AND labels, not just the label.
  
• Add one of the dynamic category lists so that I don't have to refresh the page as I drill down to the category I want.
  
• The logo gets lost in the design. It should stand out more.
  
• The reviews should be on the same page as the wine description. People buy wine based on how pretty the label is, or what others tell them.
  
• Your SSL certificate doesn't work because your base href tag is set incorrectly.
  

I think the one thing that would make your store successful is if you built a wine suggestion where it asks the visitor a series of questions, and lists wines that they might like. Even better would be to make it more community based with forums and wines suggested by customers.

 

What he said. Makes me thirsty though.

[chooch]

I am interested in reading some of your feedback about the store.

It is a template that is widely available, what feedback do you want when all the sites using that template look the same??

 

Some have actually been proactive enough to remove the ridiculous single language 'flag' (which you haven't) and some have even got rid of the single currency box (which again you haven't).

 

another site asking for feedback not so long ago.

 

You could have and definately should have added in your 'request for feedback' that you used a template otherwise people may think you designed the site and may end up complimenting you when you did nothing of the sort.

[dynamoeffects]

Seem a bit angry there, Cooch.

[wallscott]

I appreciate all the feedback I got from the site.

 

I have been working on how to impliment some of suggestions that have been put forth.

All feedback has been greatly appreciated and as I make the changes I will report back what I found.

 

Thanks all.

 

Bryant