web design ideas

[The Artist]

I am planning on re building my website. Small business and gets busy in the summer. Mostly information with a page for a shop with add to cart buttons etc all done through paypal. Now it was made in Frontpage with frames so it's pretty crappy.

I am looking for some radical ideas to integrate into the website.

I am starting from scratch. Using Dreamweaver 8 and maybe expression studio 2. I can't code fluently but I can modify stuff by using common sense in the code.

So far the plan is to have a simple info site with a link to my online shop which will be php driven using a template like cubecart or similar. I hate oscommerce.

Anyone got any cool ideas for the website? Doesn't need to be product orientated. Maybe a menu you saw or any really good ideas you have seen before.

I will you so much you might actually die.

Cheers

[Matthie]

What about a starting page with a nice picture to do with the product that the person then clicks on a link to enter the page? Always makes the company look more proffesional if done right imo.
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[Matthie]

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[Bendy]

I think he means a splash page. Which would be very cool.

If it was 1998.

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[Matthie]

It was just a idea to try help, what's with all the slating?
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Tutton says: I hate random hardons, they are so weird...

[UnknownStuntm...]

Right, let's see what you meant - splash pages are indeed WAY COOL if you're 12 and it's 1996, but since neither of those are true, I'll just hope you meant a catalogue of images arranged and you click on one for more info...

Matthie, go get us an example of this idea of yours so we can either slate you or eat humblefudge.

[Albion]

Learn simple html and css! Then make your site fully validated! It will mean that the site is viewable on all devices and is better for SEO! It's easy!
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[The Artist]

Got a mate who is working on a basic design at the moment and see what he comes up with.

Im looking for complete base ideas, not individual ones so any really good ideas please let me know.

I thought splash screen if I got the rest of the website to load in the time it takes the person to click the image would be good. Less waiting time for the potential customers.

[Bendy]

[skinny]

When designing sites I will quite often browse though site like this
https://www.freecsstemplates.org/css-templates/ to come up with Ideas for menus and bits of layout. I then code something similar to get the look I'm after.
If you are not very good at coding css you could just use the parts you like as you can down load the complete css and index page.

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[s44678]

Simple is definitely best for e-commerce.

People are on there to look at the products, not look at the site design.
It obviously needs to be functional, but not much else.

https://www.threadless.com/

https://www.adventuretime.it/

https://www.oki-ni.com/icat/evisuall

https://www.pistolclothing.com.au/


Keep it super simple and let the product images provide the graphic interest.

OS-commerce for the win as well. Unless you want to spend AGES coding something from scratch. I've seen some really nice stores done in e-commerce.

[bazza]

If you can't present enough information to potential new customers to get them to click that next link within 9 seconds of arriving at your page, chances are you've lost them.

That includes page loading time.

Try not to make life difficult for them with splash pages, flash animations, bad colour choices, confusing menus and an eye-crippling layout or they'll hit the back button before the page has loaded.

This one's brilliant:

https://havenworks.com/


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[The Artist]

I prefer cubecart to oscommerce although those website make it look like they designed the whole e-commerce system themselves.

[map]

[The Artist]

Ok, looking at the newer version of oscommerce it looks a lot better than the one I tried before.

Anyone know of any other e-commerce "kits" out there? Free preferably. That are any good and you have used.

Cheers

[iooi]

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[Fel]

If you're looking for an eCommerce solution, stay tuned! Myself and a few others are working together to write a PHP based eCommerce application, drop me a PM if you're interested.

(Weird first post for a bike forum really, but I feel safe here XD *geek*)
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[djsalt]

Hi, just an idea but why not base your site on a decent opensource cms like Joomla or one of the many avaliable. They all have decent plugins avaliable for them too. Just type in 'joomla eCommerce' into google.

[bazza]

Type "joomla exploits" into google first...
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