Guest Posted December 10, 2003 Share Posted December 10, 2003 Hello there, I'm just wondering what You folks think about this shop. www.dgbrillen.de or www.dgshades.com Any sugestions or ideas will be welcome. Please bear in mind that this shop is already live, so don't push your test orders to the end. Main targets while setting up this shop where: SE-optimization, easy to understand and easy to navigate, clear and "state of the art" design. Did I hit the goal? :rolleyes: Thank You. Warm regards, Thomas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hilgie Posted December 11, 2003 Share Posted December 11, 2003 If there is a product in my basket and I continue shopping I can't go to the checkout area. Hilgie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikes Posted December 11, 2003 Share Posted December 11, 2003 Link for this site is www.dgshades.com Very different from the standard osc site! kudos on that. I think the splash screen is confusing. At a glance you have four products. The link to the catalog isn't obvious enough. The catalog is a list of product numbers. Most customers will probably leave at that point. Include thumbnails and it will help a lot. I like the overall design but it isn't friendly. Assume that customers do not read nor follow directions. Supply pictures and big navigation buttons. Lists (like lists of product numbers) are scary and intimidating. hth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonoB Posted December 11, 2003 Share Posted December 11, 2003 Looks pretty good, but 1. Front page is VERY confusing - how do you get to your full catalog from here? 2. Quality link is broken: Warning: open_basedir restriction in effect. File is in wrong directory in /home/www/web32/html/dgbrillen/quality.php on line 15 Fatal error: Failed opening required 'includes/languages/english/quality.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/php') in /home/www/web32/html/dgbrillen/quality.php on line 15 3. This is as cheesy as they come : "Don't let this opportunity pass as we can't keep the price this low for long." You are kidding right? 4. I am also not mad about menus on the right hand side, but thats just personal preference Otherwise, well done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 11, 2003 Share Posted December 11, 2003 Hello there, thank You for the input until now. @hilgie: Thanks for the hint. I'm planning to add a constant link for checkout to the right box. @mike: well, when you entered the shop you can see in the right column all categories. I dont wanted to display all thumbnails at first. But I'm thinking about that... But, I dont share Your thoughts that customers don't follow any directions and don't read. There might be some tough, but they won't buy anyway. A average customer would enter, see the list, click on any line there or become confused and choose a category. Maybe instead of the list some pictures with links as placeholders for the categorys? @Jono: 1.Just click on "browse" or on any product at the frontpage and everything is there. 2.Hey, thank you. Not finished yet with the translation of the english category.php. Forgot to load up the blank one. 3.Agree with you. Sounds a bit cheesy. Could'nt think of any better while I'm creating this picture... Will change that... 4.Hey, almost every shop is "left". So I'm right. :lol: Don't like average at all... @all: Would love to get more input still as with Your comments I got already some good ideas for the next shop. Regards, Thomas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tariq Posted December 11, 2003 Share Posted December 11, 2003 click on any line there or become confused and choose a category Wouldn't that defeat the purpose of having an "Easy to use" shop? Personally, if I get confused trying to figure a site out, I get pissed and look for something easier. My time is more valuable to me than that. Besides that, the dgshades site is very clean looking for the graphics, but there really needs to be a font increase in the "Login or Browse" lines. It is very much overshadowed by the graphics. Having nothing but a large list to first look at, with most customers being VERY visual, IS very intimidating. They have to think to know where to start, and having BEEN in Customer relations and retail for most of my adult life, I KNOW this is a difficult task for most, sadly. Remember. You are selling online. People cannot touch, feel and wear the products before purchase, so giving them as much as you can as far as visual help is always going to be appreciated. Maybe STARTING on the Unisex glasses page, and then letting them choose from there, or having one from each category displayed in the New or Featured products instead of the text links would make it a lot more user friendly. Being different is cool and something we all strive for, generally, but when you sacrifice functionality FOR that difference, you are shorting yourself potential sales. One of these days, I will actually understand what I just changed... But reading the Manual DEFINATELY helps... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 11, 2003 Share Posted December 11, 2003 Hey Taric, thank you for the feedback. I agree with most of Your sugestions. Putting all postings together You feel it would be better if: 1. 2 buttons "login" and "browse" at the frontpage whereof "browse will lead to a page inside the shop wich displays not only the list without pictures. 2. Instead of the list-links at the frontpage maybe 3 from the most sold glasses with thumbs and links to the appropriate categorys. 3. redoing the checkout thingy mentioned in my last post as well as the other things. What about the english texts at the shop? Are they okay or is there anything which can be expressed better? Government over here is really fooling shopowners. And there are many lawyers who specialized themselves for charging shopowners for nonexisting Impressum-pages or faulty Terms and conditions-pages. Thank you again for your ideas. Regards, Thomas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tariq Posted December 11, 2003 Share Posted December 11, 2003 What do you mean, the English Texts at the shop? to what are you referring? The Terms and Conditions? And yeah, for the most, those are all spot on with what you are seeing between the posts lol. One of these days, I will actually understand what I just changed... But reading the Manual DEFINATELY helps... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burt Posted December 11, 2003 Share Posted December 11, 2003 The design rocks - it's excellent. Certainly as far away from Oscommerce as I have seen posted here. I would definately take on board a couple of the suggestions: 1. Have a checkout link if the person has at least 1 item in the basket... Add to /includes/boxes/shopping_cart.php if ($cart->count_contents() > 0) { echo '<a href="' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_CHECKOUT_SHIPPING, '' , 'SSL') . '">' . BOX_INFORMATION_CHECKOUT . '</a>'; } Obviously remember to add: define('BOX_INFORMATION_CHECKOUT', 'text here...'); to each of your language files (english.php + german.php Also, I would put the very small images of your product in the listing page, as your Product Names are not very descriptive - I think that style of shop works well with descriptive names... Design-wise, it's stunning :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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