Guest Posted May 15, 2007 Share Posted May 15, 2007 Hey Everyone, Almost finished my new online store, just have to put the finishing touches on a few pages. Here is the link Ntact Records Online Store This site is not live yet, all orders and accounts will be deleted at the end of each day. No product will be ship or downloaded. Pease use default test credit card # for payment. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abra123cadabra Posted May 16, 2007 Share Posted May 16, 2007 Nice design. I like the colours but it's way too low on contrast. Makes you search for the light switch. Definitely nothing to get lots of sales. After a few seconds my eyes already hurt. I'll not look any further. 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 17, 2007 Share Posted May 17, 2007 thank you, other then the colors. How is the flow of the site such as the checkout, I really want to make sure it is as easy to use as possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abra123cadabra Posted May 17, 2007 Share Posted May 17, 2007 I didn't go through to the checkout and I would recommend to tackle the colour/contrast first as this will drive a lot of potential customers away. 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 17, 2007 Share Posted May 17, 2007 Yeah, thats not going to happen. As the colours and layout of the site is branded across all my sites. And colour plays a miniscule role in a customers decision on whether or not they buy from the site. As a majority of customers never purchase anything the frist time they visit a site. It will always boil down to to customer service, convinence and product. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abra123cadabra Posted May 17, 2007 Share Posted May 17, 2007 Interesting approach. I would expect customers only to come back if they can't find the product anywhere else and they really want to buy it. There are a few cases where the design and layout seem to be the main focus - not the users experience and overall the usability/readability of a site. What good is it if I can hardly read the text on site (due to very low contrast or tiny fonts)? What I really like is the idea of the two-coloured headers. Good luck with your site! 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisW123 Posted May 17, 2007 Share Posted May 17, 2007 I would agree that the colors are annoying. You may think that it won't hurt sales but it will in my opinion. If people are not "comfortable" looking at your site they will simply leave sooner then they otherwise would. I understand the branding of the colors, etc., so you could try this which would keep them basically the same but give more contrast: 1) Make all of the yellow text a couple levels brighter. Same color, just a couple shades brighter. Very simple. Your logos may take more work or you might just leave them as is. 2) Make the background color of the browser (not the webpage) almost completely black (several shades darker). This will make your page much nicer to look at because it will stand out from the browser background which is currently the same color. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 18, 2007 Share Posted May 18, 2007 Well everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but the colour are not changing like I said before. However right now I asked if the functionality of the site could be tested not wheather or not my choice in colours will affect sales. Time will tell if it needs to be changed in the future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 18, 2007 Share Posted May 18, 2007 Well everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but the colour are not changing like I said before. However right now I asked if the functionality of the site could be tested not wheather or not my choice in colours will affect sales. Time will tell if it needs to be changed in the future. I have some night-club xp and my opinion about the colors is that they're good for the current collection and the type of customers your store may attract. Some text strings come close to the background maybe you could emphasize those and that should be sufficient. But you need to place more content, more products, information pages about each artist details how these people spin, past experience, other tracks, mp3 online player for people to be able to listen to some samples. Add couple of seo modules to boost your site's exposure. Deploy the latest osc fixes including the one for the currency Harald posted few days ago so people won't download your tracks for free. Add an SSL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 18, 2007 Share Posted May 18, 2007 But you need to place more content, more products, information pages about each artist details how these people spin, past experience, other tracks, mp3 online player for people to be able to listen to some samples. Add couple of seo modules to boost your site's exposure. Deploy the latest osc fixes including the one for the currency Harald posted few days ago so people won't download your tracks for free. Add an SSL. Sites not live yet, once I go live there will be more details on the products. There is an Mp3 player installed already. As well as the download controller. Once I go live I will purchase my SSL Cert. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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