My Website - what do you think?

[minvera]

Hello - I'm new here and think this site is fantastic!
I make sterling silver/gold jewellery and have designed my own website. Its mainly a gallery as I haven't got around to organising a shopping cart - any recommendations on a good - an inexpensive- cart would be welcome! Love to have your opinions...
thanks, nicola

[liz15a]

Hi Nicola

I've had a look at your website and your jewellery is lovely! Some of your necklaces are gorgeous!

I use Romancart for my shopping cart - I found it fairly simple to use and it has a good forum if you get stuck, with loads of people asking the same sorts of questions. Its also free if you don't want to accept debit/credit payments, only payments by cheque, but only £40 a year for everything.

Not got experience of any other carts so I have no idea if there's anything better out there.

Anyway, take a look at my site if you liike - just from a cart point of view so you get the idea of the things you can do - if you look at my valentines cards you can see that I have multiple drop downs which are used to gather customer requirements. Just add something to basket and have a look at the page, (obviously I'm not asking you to checkout and pay!) - its jsut so you can see that you can customise the checkout pages, invoices etc to match your site design.


Hope that helps a bit!

Liz
www.eacardsandcrafts.co.uk

[minvera]

Hello Liz - thanks for having a look! I've had a visit to your site and want to tell you that it looks great - very professional, and your cards!! they're gorgeous - how do you sell them so reasonably?? honestly they're not much more expensive than shop-bought ones! I'll definately be buying from you in future!
The cart is fantastic - where do i get it? Is there a website or something...??

Nicola

[liz15a]

Hi nicola,

thanks for your comments, very kind! I'm not in the habit of ripping people off so I charge what I think my cards are worth plus time it takes - generally the dearer they are the longer they took to do!

Anyway, about romancart just go to the link below - there's a section called 'how romancart works' which gives the basic html for everything. Then you just register and they provide you with a storeid and password etc - thats basically it, I was up and running in 5 minutes

If you decide to go ahead with it and need any help just shout me - send me a private message and I'll get in touch that way.

Cheers
Liz
Link for romancart:

www.romancart.com

[utopiapoppy]

Hi, I've just had a look at your site.

I like the design very much - very modern and I like the photo gallery layout. Very nice.

I personally use Paypal for my website. I already had a Paypal account (mainly for Ebay purposes) and the shopping cart facilities are free. It's really simple to create "Add to basket" buttons and they automatically link to Paypal's Checkout page - easy peasy. It's free to transfer funds from your paypal account to a bank account once it reaches £50.

Check it out at www.paypal.com (https://www.paypal.com/uk/mrb/pal=H93LMBZB6UYR6)

Good Luck!
Fiona

[0103media]

I agree ... Paypal is great...

For a full shopping cart with CMS (content management system) (http://www.postmodernreview.com/content/view/25/2/) I recomend http://www.oscommerce.com/

Good luck.. :lol:

[minvera]

thanks everyone for all your comments and suggestions. I'm actually registered with paypal and never considered it because I thought the customer had to be registered also. Turns out they've changed the rules!! Yay! I think I'll start with paypal and see how I get on...
Thanks again,

Nicola

[sshfcc]

Hi Nicola

I'm from N. Ireland too! Want to link?
www.standingstonecountrycrafts.co.uk

[minvera]

Yes off course! Your site is great by the way - jam-packed!
I'll do the link at the weekend
Nicola

[minvera]

Well I've finally got the shopping cart sorted! thanks for all your advice and suggestions. If you happen to have a wee look and notice any screaming errors - or any less obvious ones! - please let me know.
Thanks again,

nicola

[Michael R]

Hello Nicola

Nice site. An nice jewellery.

At the moment our site does not have any exhibitors or fairs listed in Northern Ireleand. I was starting to think that it was just that a craft industry did not exist, so it was great to see that you are based in Belfast.

So, feel free to be the first to list your details.

http://www.ukcraftfairs.com/promote_your_craft.htm

It would also be good if you could link back to us, so that perhaps we could get a few month Northern Ireland exhibitors and maybe a few faris too (use the following code)

http://www.ukcraftfairs.com/logo_text_current.gif (http://www.ukcraftfairs.com/index.htm)

Regards

Michael

[utopiapoppy]

The site looks great with e-commerce.

It's nice you've gone for the neat discreat "add to basket" buttons - too many people go for the whacking great huge buttons to get people's attention, but yours looks very smart.

I wish you all the luck.

Fiona

[minvera]

thats weird! I was just looking at your site! I notice you've gone for the same buttons as me! you're site is fab, the pink is really fresh and the whole site looks very colourful and cheerful. I had a conundrum trying to come up with the right colour- - I had green first, but finally settled on the black and white with hot pink. I must say I prefer sites with a lighter background- sometimes I think black can look very opressive. Anyway, I like your site too and wish you the best. some of your beads are lovely - I'm not a beader although I have tried in the past - much to fiddly for me, but now and again I give it another bash, so you never know
thanks again, nicola

[0103media]

Don't forget the forums are run from our craft directory which promotes UK crafters....
http://www.ukcraftwebsites.co.uk/jewwlery.php

Enjoy..