Hello, Well I was asked by a friend if I could build him a website. He has been wanting to do an online business for some time now and I had some experience with HTML I told him I would see what I could do. So after a long time I came up with this, a heavily modified template. I have a few products up as he is awaiting some finalization on the production end and I know there are some problems with the site. Thats why im here, I want to ask user opinions. Does the site look professional? Would you buy from it if there was something you wanted? What would you change? What would you keep the same? Do you think it will sell? I did a brief stint on Adwords to see what the response would be and I did get 160 hits and no feedback, I wasint expecting to sell anything with so few products but I wanted to see if my keywords were working etc. I know I still have to work on that but I told him I would refine the keywords etc once he got some more products. I told him I thought he needed 200 products or product styles to start really selling things. He dosen't have much money to go spend on a SEO, etc etc so im trying to think of ways to market it. So thanks for answering my questions.
when i click "Indian Jewlery" you lose the "fine art" link. make you "email us" a code that opens up email. "More Images" needs to be a link or remove it You have little things you need to tweak. Sleep and look it tomorrow and you'll see them all.
Thanks for those who looked over my site. One thing I am finding do not like about it is it feels kind of cramped, all of the products need to be a single list. As I said I recomended him get as many products on there as he could and that means lots of frames for example. I would like 2 - 3 frames in a row on the content area that way I can save space. Not sure the best way to go about that any ideas?
If you make the background black instead of white for the <body> it'll look a lot better. Also, I personally don't think you should have a Frame for the content. If you want to use a frame because you want it to be "within" the background, then try using a 1px height pic of the blue background. And then attach the "ending" gradient of blue at the bottom. That way, you won't have those disturbing scrollbars. Well, that's just my opinion.
A way I did an index page was make 3 square a cross 250px x 300px. I made 2 of them in a row mouse over pics in pics and made the 3rd a google pic ad. The front pic could be the product, the mouse over could be a description. Click on it and it goes to paypal. That way it has motion and people will play with it. OK, my idea for the night
you might want to invest in joomla, its free, so easy to use a cms for something this simple. its easy to mod templates for joomla.
Thanks for comments, larryad im not using any frames, it is all CSS but I agree I do not like the scroll bar either. Im not sure im getting at what your saying about the gradient and a 1px height color. Sorry for my misunderstanding this is my first website I have done in a long long time. Today we invested in SunShop because Paypal alone just was not giving the options needed to select product attributes etc and the 10 buynow buttons per product looked rather unfashionable. I saw sunshop used at Geekatplay and liked the layout of it there. I will see how that goes. Thanks again also I will try the black background.
Looking good and clean. Though I noticed you're using 2 h1 tags for each page (1 for the website name and 1 for page titles). I'd only use the h1 once for page titles or else search engines might devalue it.