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Renniwano;69846 wrote: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!

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?

@justin

your second image is still really poor

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

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

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?

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

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).

GoldRapt;74545 wrote: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

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.

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?