BF2S Forums I require some constructive input for our website

Looks good, but all the prices are in £'s which is a bit confusing.


lol, j/k!

Nice job man.

Clean, clear and easy to navigate. One of the better "amateur" (not because the job is amateur, but because it's not a "pro" job - As in, you're using a normal template with some colour changes and it's being operated by TigerCommerce) sites I've seen.

Can't really say much about it because it's neither truly stunning or an utter failure. It does its job as an eCommerce site pretty damn well.

I would change some of the layout settings, but just a few personal thoughts on that. Don't need to go into detail if you're happy with what you've got.

Also, get an SSL certificate. I don't want to be checking out without HTTPS on my browser window. It really is a MUST for new eCommerce sites.

Oh, yeah. One thing that's a bit of a pain -

All your products are called by their model names - Most customers wont give a shit what the model name is, but more what it is and what it does. Either have a tiny brief of what kind of thing it is on the product browsing display or change the product name to something more customer friendly. Letters and numbers ain't going to help anyone.

I realise there is both a LIST and BOX view, and that the BOX view contains a brief of what each product does, but the IMAGES and LIST view don't. And by default, I get hit with the IMAGES view.

I'd rather use the BOX view by default. I don't know if TigerCommerce allows that default value to be changed, it should though, for the prices you're paying.

Zimmer wrote:

Oh, yeah. One thing that's a bit of a pain -

All your products are called by their model names - Most customers wont give a shit what the model name is, but more what it is and what it does. Either have a tiny brief of what kind of thing it is on the product browsing display or change the product name to something more customer friendly. Letters and numbers ain't going to help anyone.

I realise there is both a LIST and BOX view, and that the BOX view contains a brief of what each product does, but the IMAGES and LIST view don't. And by default, I get hit with the IMAGES view.

I'd rather use the BOX view by default. I don't know if TigerCommerce allows that default value to be changed, it should though, for the prices you're paying.

Oh yeah we can change pretty much anything, it's an amazing package. The site is probably 2/3 weeks away from being fully functional, so i'm adding some more product and fine tuning things.

I've been doing a fair bit of management via CSV too, but my tenedency to fuck that up is high.

Much better IMO.
Maybe have the brand name bigger than the model? I wouldn't know the difference between two models, but if i had been recommended a specific brand..

PrivateVendetta wrote:

Much better IMO.
Maybe have the brand name bigger than the model? I wouldn't know the difference between two models, but if i had been recommended a specific brand..

You can navigate directly to the brand using the left hand pane, tho i've been giving consideration to the category structure also, to make finding a particular product of interest.

Zimmer wrote:

I'd personally put the main product navigation as dropdown menus on the top orange bar, instead of the 4 links. Because those 4 links aren't the first thing the customer wants to see, and browsing is a lot easier the closer the navigation is to the top. Your templating system should allow that. It would look a lot nicer. You can have the extra links down the LHS, but the main navigation should also be on the orange bar.

I'll have a look into that, it might be a question for our host. I know what you mean tho, i need to add more categorys and i wonder if i would run out of space along the top for all my categorys?

Last edited by baggs (2009-11-05 08:25:50)

Thanks for all the input, i think i managed to karma everyone. This is very important to me, thanks again!

Looks great for what you want, only thing i dislike is the title (font doesn't look great, not sure if I love the tilt).  Good job though!

Make the pictures of the stuff your selling smaller on the front page. Casual shopping/surfers don't scroll down allot of the time. You want to get as much info across in as small a place without making it confusing. A fine balance.