How does it look?

[~Kira]

http://anxieties.com/store/

[Hunnenkoenig]

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[♥14steve14]

Wow you have a lot of work to do.

 

Change the buttons from the blue. Its not hard to do.

Your store looks to be too narrow on my wide screen.

Looks like you have no meta tag info.

Your small images look terrible

 

Thats from the 1st page only. I didnt bother going much further.

[~Kira]

Wow you have a lot of work to do.

 

Change the buttons from the blue. Its not hard to do.

Your store looks to be too narrow on my wide screen.

Looks like you have no meta tag info.

Your small images look terrible

 

Thats from the 1st page only. I didnt bother going much further.

 

It's supposed to match his current site, which it did not previously, so that's why it has that width and those colors. That blue is incorporated into his regular site, that's why I left them blue. :rolleyes:

 

It's not supposed to be a whole new design.

 

Apparently you haven't seen many of the stores in the 'showcase' yet. Jeez

[♥14steve14]

I have looked in the showcase, and most of the sites there are total rubbish. To be able to sell something from any online store you first have to attract customers away from your competitors. If your competitors have a better site thats lister before yours in any search engines people will go there. Why would anyone bother going to a page further down the list, when they can get it higher up. Thats why SEO needs to be sorted well.

 

In a conventional store in the high street customers can touch and feel products. In an online store they only have a picture to go on. If that picture is rubbish, why should people look at it.

[ravenwinde]

I think it is a bit plain Jane, but I wouldn't get anxious about it. Stop obsessing with the unimportant stuff and focus on the overall design. Don't panic, just relax maybe try some breathing or meditation before you consider what to try. As a guide maybe take 3 minutes to imagine what it would personally feel like to have the site be a success.

 

I'm sorry, I couldn't resist.

 

 

Seriously, what totally stamps osCommerce sites as 'plain jane' and 'out of the box', are solid color box headers with bold white text. Look here: http://store.apple.com/us Even Apple does this with their box headers and it looks like uninspired design.

 

Here is a site I look at from time to time to help remind me about simplicity in design. http://www.maganda.org/main.html

 

My suggestion is to get rid of the headers on the tops of the boxes.

[♥MYC267]

I do agree the stock look has to go... especially if you want to be taken seriously and want to appear trustworthy and professional to potential customers.

 

Have a look at what your competitors are doing and big e-commerce players in the industry... I am not saying copy them but take a leaf out of their book.

 

The biggest issue I see with almost all sites submitted here is their design is basically stock with only a few subtly differences. Remember the stock layout wasn't realllly mean to be used on a live shop (well I think that anyway), it was just providing a base for you to start and showcase the features available.

[~Kira]

Did I design his entire site?

 

Would I, as an ethical person, want to make his store as fabulous looking as the top ecommerce sites, when it would be totally different from his main site?

 

Is that what we're after? Hey, let's take a client site and add a really kick-ass shopping cart to it that not only refuses to match the main website (so a user would wonder just where they had been diverted to) but also would put it to shame?

 

That's not my idea of what I do.

 

Now, if he let me redo the whole site, then it's another story, but he paid thousands of dollars for it and is in no way wanting to change it or give it up, and keep in mind that it's a free help site, not a big revenue chaser.

 

All I really wanted to know was does the cart match the site. That's it. No relaxation exercises or links to apple.

[jhande]

It's supposed to match his current site

 

Hey Kira,

 

First I am a little confussed. :blush:

The header in the store states - "the largest free anxiety self-help site on the internet". There's prices on everything.

Where is a product menu? The only links I can see are in the middle - Books & Kits. What happens when they want to add more products? You need a menu/category setup.

Please optimize the thumbnail images, they killed me on dialup.

 

As far as matching the other site...

Change the infobox headings from solid green to match the other site; little green bar on the left and the rest gray.

The Home site has some blue text links in the upper section. Maybe change either the page title or the header links (Home >> Store... My Account | Cart Contents | Checkout) to match.

I would take the mailing address and phone number from the About Us page and add it to the Contact Us page.

A little more information about the company would be nice on the About Us page.

The Home link in the header is broken as is the My Account link.

Loose the hit counter (request since) in the footer.

Change the stock blue osC buttons, the shade doesn't blend with the theme very well.

 

I'm not exactly sure why you were given a link to - http://www.maganda.org/main.html

That's not an ecommerce site. Heck I don't even know what it is besides lame. But that's just my point-of-view. :rolleyes:

[lindsayanng]

I also feel that there are LOADS of things you can do to continue with the look of the main site but still get away from the stock oscommerce look. I agree with everything JHandle said.

 

And even though there is SOME blue on the main site does not mean those stock osc buttons look good. They might be a similar color, but they do not go with the overall look. The butons at the top (home and store) are nice, 3D buttons with highlights and all. You can keep a BLUE button, but make them look more like the other buttons on the site

 

the little yellow envelope on the TELL A FRIEND box can be better looking and match better

 

I got this waring when trying to checkout on Safari

Safari can’t open the page.

Safari can’t open the page “https://anxieties.com/store/checkout_shipping.php?osCsid=244e8e50c096dde29c816ca429fbf782” because it couldn’t establish a secure connection to the server “anxieties.com”.

 

Do you not have SSL?? you should get that

 

You can also reformat the product info page to resemble the look of the main site. The location of the BUY NOW button is not idea for any e-commerce site. That should be changed

 

get rid of the date/time stamp on the bottom bar