Our major product is hand carved and hand painted Christmas ornaments. I would appreciate any comments or suggestions to help improve our site. While I am rather technically inept, I am most willing to learn. Our site is http://www.treetreasurescanada.com

To anyone who is kind enough to review our site, I would be pleased to return the favour.

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Margaret
Christmas Ornaments by Tree Treasures

Hi,

Your site is very nice and I think will be a success.

One thing that I'd do is make a back to HOME link appear at the top of each page. For me, once I got down inside the site, the navigation wasn't very intuitive. Visited links should be a significantly different colour from unvisited links -- yours are almost identical and difficult to distinguish.

The "GENERAL" section, which contains corporate stuff, should go underneath the last of the carving pages. I'd try to keep 'like with like' etc. to make navigation more intuitive.

US dollars are probably a must-show detaill for your website.

Otherwise -- very inviting and welcoming.

Cheers,
Matt

Margaret,

Thanks, I was carried away to winter wonderland and forgot why I was there in the first place. I was tempted to visit the other links to explore all of the different items, but I will have to do that when I have more time.

I did a who is for your site in google and found over 500 results. You say you want to improve your site... is it due to lack of traffic, or do you just want a new look? I have to ask, because from my perspective your site looks good. Your pictures look good and they are displayed well.

Personally I prefer the navigation listed on the left, because it just seems easier for me to read. If the navigation is across the top, it is easier to read if they are underlined and/or seperated by the slash or hash what ever it's called. Many sites will put the navigation across the top and bottom, this can be good for search engine results if your links have key searh words in them.

Maybe just some simple changes like have a different picture in the heading for each page. or maybe some pictures of the ornaments being made... Maybe our websites like our rooms at home need to be re-arranged just because we get bored with them the way they are.

Well, thats my two bits, sorry I could not offer any more suggestions, maybe some one else can add something more usefull.



A review of our site is respectfully request and greatly appreciated, Thank you!

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Clicken
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Thank you Matt and Clicken for your thoughtful replies. Regarding link colours, our links should be dark green with visited links burgundy. Is this what you are seeing but finding the two dark colours to be too similar?

It is not cost effective for us to accept US dollar credit card transactions as well as Canadian dollar transactions. The bank charges are just too high. Do you feel that approximate US dollar prices (with a footnote)would be beneficial? Also, how about approx. Euro prices?

Clicken, I asked for a review in the hopes of improving traffic and/or conversion rates. While internet sales are historically very slow for us to the end of August, this year has been a disaster so far. Our sales to the end of July are lower than they've been since 1999! Not a good omen. I also prefer the navigation bar to the left and will likely change it in next year's major overhaul.

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Margaret
Christmas Ornaments by Tree Treasures

Hi,

Yes, they're very similar -- except to the person who designed the site!... it were me I'd make them tonally as well as chromatically different.

Cheers,
Matt

Matt,

I would recommend getting a (much smaller) header and footer on each individual product page that lets you navigate back to the home page... you can also use this area to beef up your keyword density for each page.

I also agree that you should have a consisitant navigation scheme throughout the whole site. The big box at the top of each page might be too tall, as I only run 1024X768 and have to scroll on every page to even see the first row of products.

Hope this helps. . . Good Luck!

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