Megan — Thu, 03 May 2007 13:22:26 +0000

Artesania Galpi;218717 wrote: Thank you for your answer. I will keep in mind your sugestions, but I still think if somebody wants to buy anything from my site the shipping fees are easy to find in the check out pages. Also in my home page we say clear that we ship from the USA, but I will see if I can make this more clear.

My opinion is that the shipping fees need to be available before checkout. I know some sites have strange (high) shipping rates so I'm sort of conditioned to expect the unexpected when that checkout page comes up. It's best for those to be posted up front so if people are concerned about it they can see them before they bother going through the checkout process. It just saves a step.

I see the bullet point about shipping from the US office now. I wonder why I ignored that at first. I had a hard time reading that grey text so I tended to avoid reading if possible. Maybe it was the shell bullets and the placement below the main blurb, I don't know.

Oh, it would also be a good idea to make it more clear that those two product photos take you into the actual shopping areas. Just labelling them underneath as "bracelts" and "sets" or whatever those are. Then people would know that that takes them into the shopping area instead of guessing that they will.

Artesania Galpi — Thu, 03 May 2007 02:41:43 +0000

Megan;218687 wrote: The problem with flash is that search engines can't read any words in it. This is a concern when (obviously), you have text in the flash that you want the search engine to read. It's not really an issue if you're just using it to display pictures. However, the pictures in the flash object wouldn't be found by search engines either. You've got a very small amount of flash on here that is just being used for decorative purposes so I don't think it's a problem. It would be if you were displaying all your product photos in flash.

I just stopped by your site to look for a gift for my sister. The problem I'm having as a shopper is that the site doesn't have any information about shipping rates and where the products are being shipped from. i.e. I wasn't sure if the products were being shipped from Spain or from someplace else. That would increase the shipping time and cost by a lot. I finally did find this information on the policies page when I attempted to go through the checkout - I think this information should be labelled more clearly. Call it "shipping and returns" or something like that so it's more clear.

I am finding the grey text here to be hard to read. Make the text darker and increase the line-height to make it easier for people.

Thank you for your answer. I will keep in mind your sugestions, but I still think if somebody wants to buy anything from my site the shipping fees are easy to find in the check out pages. Also in my home page we say clear that we ship from the USA, but I will see if I can make this more clear.

Any ways thanks a lot for yuor comments and answer.

PD. you are always welcome to order from my site. I am pretty sure you will like my jewelry.

Thanks,

Manuel

Bluesteel — Wed, 02 May 2007 17:59:08 +0000

i like the site nice layout but i saw the 128bit encrpytion logo but i did not see the yellow lock on my try you need to make sure ssl is there.

other wise nice job.

Tommy

Megan — Wed, 02 May 2007 16:42:06 +0000

Artesania Galpi;218151 wrote: Bill,

Thank yuo for your comments. But Could you esplain why flash is not good with searh engine.

The problem with flash is that search engines can't read any words in it. This is a concern when (obviously), you have text in the flash that you want the search engine to read. It's not really an issue if you're just using it to display pictures. However, the pictures in the flash object wouldn't be found by search engines either. You've got a very small amount of flash on here that is just being used for decorative purposes so I don't think it's a problem. It would be if you were displaying all your product photos in flash.

I just stopped by your site to look for a gift for my sister. The problem I'm having as a shopper is that the site doesn't have any information about shipping rates and where the products are being shipped from. i.e. I wasn't sure if the products were being shipped from Spain or from someplace else. That would increase the shipping time and cost by a lot. I finally did find this information on the policies page when I attempted to go through the checkout - I think this information should be labelled more clearly. Call it "shipping and returns" or something like that so it's more clear.

I am finding the grey text here to be hard to read. Make the text darker and increase the line-height to make it easier for people.

mfdc — Tue, 01 May 2007 15:38:00 +0000

the images dont load quickly enough in my opinion on a T1 optic leased line, (12mb eqiv), with that in mind, couldnt you not pre fetch the images or have a site loading page whilst there pre fetched!?

nice layout though - nice site

egabuff — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 14:23:12 +0000

have you change the shells to a higher resolution?
Just wondering as I looked and they seem fine to me!

Also I have seen sight that have too high a RES and they take a long time to load up and you can loose a lot of people that way!

Just my 2 bobs worth

nell — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 14:33:01 +0000

Hi, I have just had a look at your website and was very impressed with the design, content and ease of use. It's attractive and I found it easy to find my way around.

If I was looking for unique jewelry, I would be very pleased to find your site - the pictures are clear and the text is descriptive and helpful and I would be very tempted to buy.

Many best wishes for your websites success.

Artesania Galpi — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 00:39:27 +0000

Bill,

Thank yuo for your comments. But Could you esplain why flash is not good with searh engine.

Thanks,

Manuel:confused:

customicondesig — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 01:40:18 +0000

Looks fine, you have flash in your site, it's not good with search engine,

Bill

Artesania Galpi — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 02:34:30 +0000

Thank you for your comments. I will keep them in mind. I really will consider the idea of changing the flash on my home page.

Thanks again,

Manuel
Artesania Galpicos