Revised Store needs help

[Deluxecctv]

Hello fellow forum readers,

 

We just got done revising our website and making a lot of changes to it. We would greatly appreciate your feedback on what we can do to improve it further. If for some reason you get an error message while attempting to access our website, this is because we are currently moving the website to a more secure server. Please be patient and check back later. Thanks

 

Here is the website Visit My Website

[Deluxecctv]

80 people have looked at my thread and no one has replied? Anybody? I thought this was supposed to be a friendly site to get honest information to help. Please someone reply.

[Guest]

Dustin,

 

Your site looks fine. Since it's a template I am not sure what you could have done to change the layout. The only thing I can see is new products added, which really doesn't require a review and would be considered more of a sales pitch than anything.

 

 

Anyway, the site looks fine.

 

 

Chris

[Peper]

Looks professional,

 

How did you get the sidebar like that? - I like

 

How can I change mine?

[Deluxecctv]

Looks professional,

 

How did you get the sidebar like that? - I like

 

How can I change mine?

 

 

Hello, I had my web developer do all the work for me. I just wanted a certain look and went after it. Thanks for the feedback, and any other feedback is more than welcome. Thanks again!

[Deluxecctv]

Almost 500 people looked at this thread and only 3 comments? Guess my site is perfect?

[♥14steve14]

Your site looks quite good. If i was you, i would take no ctisism as a bonus. leave it alone.

 

The only thing i would remove from your site is the "this product was added to our catalog" text on your product info pages. As a customer, why do i need to know this.

 

What i would add, if i wanted to be taken seriously is SSL. No sensible person will purchase any items without it. I would also try to make the small images clearer, they look a bit fuzzy. Some of your product images, once clicked to enlaorge are still small.

 

Once all that is done, it looks as if you need to add something to help with SEO. Every one of your products have the same metta info.

[Deluxecctv]

I will definitely keep that in mind and make the changes. Thanks for the tips.

[turoreakandy]

design is kind of old...colors don't match..the post it note is pixelated

the product info page ...review and buy now buttons don't match and also the background behind them is bad

[Deluxecctv]

design is kind of old...colors don't match..the post it note is pixelated

the product info page ...review and buy now buttons don't match and also the background behind them is bad

 

 

turoreakandy, what would you doing suggest? Compared to all the other websites out there, this looks like a great website stated by several people. I appreciate the criticism, but what do you suggest I do about it? Thanks

[Jan Zonjee]

what do you suggest I do about it?

Mr. or Mrs. turo was spamming the forums so has been banned. So don't expect an answer.

[burt]

I'd say it looks very "osCommercey".

 

If it were me I'd be

 

1. looking at restyling your infoboxes so they don't look like boxes anymore

2. making sure that your product descriptions have "style" (check in firefox)

 

It's certainly nicer than 90% of osCommerce sites. It jsut needs an injection of style.

[Peper]

I'd say it looks very "osCommercey".

 

If it were me I'd be

 

1. looking at restyling your infoboxes so they don't look like boxes anymore

2. making sure that your product descriptions have "style" (check in firefox)

 

It's certainly nicer than 90% of osCommerce sites. It jsut needs an injection of style.

 

 

Thanks for comment.

 

Where will I do the infobox thing and fix for Firefox? (I like Firefox)

[Deluxecctv]

I'd say it looks very "osCommercey".

 

If it were me I'd be

 

1. looking at restyling your infoboxes so they don't look like boxes anymore

2. making sure that your product descriptions have "style" (check in firefox)

 

It's certainly nicer than 90% of osCommerce sites. It jsut needs an injection of style.

 

 

Thanks, I will be making a lot more changes coming up here in the future. Thanks for your help.

[Deluxecctv]

Thanks for comment.

 

Where will I do the infobox thing and fix for Firefox? (I like Firefox)

 

Peper, I believe that he was referring to my website. LOL!

[DataMouse]

Here's my $0.02....

 

1. Install Easy SEO or Ultimate SEO URLS. This iwll change your dynamic addresses to more Google-friendly ones.

 

2. Change the logos at teh bottom. "HackerSafe" is bigger than your product images! Which is more important - your products or their logo?

 

3. Change your default icons. For example (http://www.deluxecctv.com/catalog/images/box_products_notifications.gif) is a stock icon. Change to match the rest of your site (wwhich looks good)

 

4. Install SlimBox or Lightbox on your image previews. This will open a large animated window for your preview. Very nice.

 

5. You are using a scaled image for your products. Install a contribution that allows you to have two images. 1 will be a small preview - the other can be any size.

This will stop your images from looking distorted on the main site pages.

 

6. Your product descriptions have lists that are unordered and unbulletted. Use HTML tags, or install a WYSIWYG editor for your product descriptions.

 

7. SSL - well done! You'd be amazed how many stores don't have this!

 

8. Revise your column widths. At the moment, your left and right columns are fixed width, with teh centre expanding.

I'm on a large monitor (1980px) and the left and right columns are virtually missing from my screen because the centre is so large.

On the payment page, you have a lot of info about ordering errors etc. But on my screen this is almost lost.

Set your widths to something like 15% 70% 15%, with a minimum width attribute for teh L&R columns, so that it still scales on smaler resolutions.

 

9. Install Header Tags for SEO. Allows you to add descriptions, page titles and keywords to your meta tags for each product. Very handy.

 

10. Some of your javascript executes when the page opens. If you script doesn't need to be in your HEAD section, move it to the end of the page.

This will improve your page load speed marginally, as javascript is "fired" before the rest of the page loads.

 

That should get you started.

[Deluxecctv]

Datamouse, thank you so much. Your information was very helpful. I will be making more changes here in the next couple of weeks. Please check back to see the work. Thanks again!

[Deluxecctv]

Alright, all the work will be done starting two weeks from now. keep your eyes on this one. Should be a good transformation.

[Deluxecctv]

Ok, most of the work has been completed. Please take a look and see what you think. Any comments are appriciated. Thanks Visit My Website

[germ]

I think you've been hacked....

 

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[Deluxecctv]

Ok, most of the work has been completed. Please take a look and see what you think. Any comments are appriciated. Thanks Visit My Website

 

 

No, what had happen is our SEO guys did user friendly URL'S and they used an outbound link. So it reads it as malicious code. We are working around the clock to get this fixed. Thanks and we will let you know when to check back.