Feedback on my website please

[smo]

Don't know if this is any help to you.. but I sometimes use this page to check what my site will look like on the majority of browsers

http://browsershots.org/

Handy site - Thankyou

There are some very obscure browsers listed there too!

[Justin]

Changed one of my banners now, hope it's a little clearer. Will be working on the others soon

Got rid of the extra screen for More Options, think I prefer this way as well...but will see!

Anyone any ideas on the featured section on the homepage? I don't like it like this, was thinking about a slider but wonder if that's too much 'going on' with the banner already sliding? Could just go for a random row of products that changes on page refresh?

[s31teg]

@justin

your second image is still really poor

also the options is allot better, i would disable reviews as no one uses them

[Justin]

Yes, that's why I said I'd only done the first! Lol. Second needs re-doing again.

[Justin]

Re-visiting this thread after a bit of an absence Taken onboard some of the feedback, I know there's more work to do on banners etc. but it's now live so I will tweak as it develops.

One thing, I'm looking at starting to sell for local companies/artists etc. I want to have sections for each artist to display items with their images on so that customers can buy them direct. Looking for some guidance on how I could integrate this into the site....or would I be better with a different site.....layout etc?

[GoldRapt]

Hows the marketing for the site going Justin? Are you seeing and returns yet?

[mel777]

Hi Justin

Hope you are well, not spoken in a while! Just for future reference there are very nice mobile responsive templates for OpenCart at themeforest.net

1) Your banner images are saved as .jpg, .png, .gif - resave all these as .jpg (Progressive). Also Photoshop is crap at saving in terms of file size so get yourself a free copy of Faststone image ressizer at www.faststone.org/FSResizerDetail.htm
2) Your template was designed to be max-width : 1000px with 80px total padding thus max-banner image size should be 920px wide for best looking results.
3) Turn on SEO re-write (and edit .htaccess file to correspond). Plenty of documentation available to do this.
4) There are a few typo / grammar errors on the terms and conditions page.

Selling for local companies / artists
There are a couple of ways you could approach this

Option 1
Create a master category Artists and add a sub-category to this for each artist

Option 2
OpenCart supports multi-store setup (so potentially each artist could have their own independent store) such as artist1.yourdomain.com artist2.yourdomain.com

However I don't use OpenCart (100% Magento sorry) but the only issue that springs to mind is who is taking the payment / who is providing the terms of business, who is liable, etc. ???

I personally think you would be better going with a whole new site with categories and all the artists products combined with a new company formed to run and process the payments which in turn are passed onto the artists minus your commission (so in effect a mini-ebay).

[Justin]

Hows the marketing for the site going Justin? Are you seeing and returns yet?

Still very early days and only just now starting to put time into this. Getting a few local enquiries so all headed in the right direction

[Justin]

Great feedback Melissa, many thanks Will take on board everything you've said.

Wasn't sure whether to keep everything under one roof or start a complete new site, I can see what you're saying here.

Initially my thoughts were to have everything in one place so that I could get cross business, i.e. people buying local artists work would order their own printed items from me...and so on. Will have to weigh everything up. I do like the idea of every artist having their own section, maybe this and also a combination where visitors can just view either work by one artist or 'all' mugs with local images etc.

[Justin]

Just looking at the multi site feature in OC. I see you can set up, e.g. store1.printshetland.com....but can you set up printshetland.com/store1 ?

Can this maybe be done with a divert?