Suggestions for my site please

[BPJ553]

I've just gone live with my site, and have started receiving orders (yey!) I'm wondering if you guys would be kind enough to give me some constructive critisism on it. I'm no web designer, but have spent significant effort and some very late nights on this project. You can view it at www.merlinarcherycentre.co.uk. Not exactly run of the mill products I’m selling...

Many thanks

[webmonk]

check your prices

You have certainly made brilliant use of all the attributes and components that come with Actinic. I may ask your help on that kind of thing soon!

Your prices seem slightly odd sums, like £116.31. Is it possible that you have entered the selling price inclusive of VAT onto which the application has then added VAT all over again? (e.g. £116.31 minus 17.5% would be £98.99 which looks a bit more like a normal selling price!)

[thomas]

nice site

When you add an item to your cart there is no obvious way of continue shopping because we have actinic I know to press confirm, but might want to change that button text to continue shopping.

Nice job done though!

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[BPJ553]

Thanks for the comments. My pricing is worked out and then VAT gets added on top. I'm just working out a percentage mark up I need for that particular product and going with that. I'm not into rounding things up or down. Your welcome to ask me about the attributes and choices. I had to use them alot!

Confirm button- I'm not sure about changing this. It seems the right choice for me, but as you say, we are used to actinic. I'm going to have alook at some other sites and see whats the norm.

[PeteN]

Hi,
The site looks excellent for a first attempt, there are a couple of points I would make on a comercial basis
#1 make the 'enter shop' link more prominent, not at the bottom of the page! this is the most important feature on the entire page make sure they find it easily.
#2 Reduce the number of 'clicks' required to actually buy something, I counted 5 from the front page to a product page, aim for 2 and no more than 3 max.
#3 Put the postage warning somewhere else, (maybe on the shipping feature top right of your home page) this accounts for 1 click.
#3 Put a text link into your description for 'more info' instead of making your clients wait for a pop up page to load to be told to visit the manufacturers site. You could then use the extended info feature to display your shipping warning. text: 'Please read before ordering'
#4 Give carefull consideration to where you will ship to!!! under no circumstances send goods to Indonesia, Nigeria or Eastern Europe unless you have cleared funds in your possesion
#5 The internet is full of fraudsters, some of them very clever, don't fall victim to them, if an order looks too good to be true, it usually is! If a small order is followed very quickly by a much larger order do not send untill you double check the validity.
Best of luck with your venture,
Pete

[danbond]

have no idea where you are webdesign wise but a useful tool is always the w3c validator. the following is when you run the home page through it, might we worth having a look at one or two of the errors. and yes, before anyone smart puts wheesh.com through it, there are a lot of errors for that!

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=ht...entre.co.uk%2F

mind you, looks very nice visually and actually most of the errors are 2 second fixes where there you just need blank alt tags i think.