BlueDreamer

Here's a few things: 1. Why hide the navigation on large screens? 2. The home page video is nauseating to watch, the speed changes could induce seizures so an accessibility issue there 3. Where's my cursor gone? Custom cursors were a thing back in the early days but they got so annoying people stopped using them. The black blob for cursor did make me laugh, but did you actually try clicking a link with it? 4. There's way too much animation, it's distracting. If you must animate be more subtle: delight don't distract 5. Inline link colours are invisible, black links with black text, at least put text-decoration: underline on inline links to help people. 6. You could be leaking PII to Facebook and Google, their surveillance scripts are being called but I had no way to opt in or out.

There's are 100's of ecommerce platforms so you'll need to do some homework to see which might best for your clients needs. Although it doesn't cover every one then https://ecommerce-platforms.com/articles/shopping-carts-software-ecommerce-platforms is a good pace to start looking.

Well it's so nice not to see a bloated site, your home page weighs in at just under 300kb, awesome - good for your visitors and good for the environment. Everything is good for me, I can easily browse, search and download fonts without any faff. Does what it says on the tin. The only things I noticed: 1. You're using Google Tag manager which can set surveillance cookies, you really need to get an opt in consent for that. 2. There are a few accessibility errors, mainly colour contrast, missing form labels and superfluous links. It'd be worth running the site with an accessibility tool.

The app used for creating mocksups shouldn't really matter so long as the supplied files are in an open format (unlike PSD). I do prefer written notes listing things like general typography settings, colours etc.

What does "bac" mean? It looks like this text is from a cut n past email.

^ Me too. I "joined" them when they first launched, I never had one enquiry via their site so no great loss!

If you're going to use the same domain name you'll only need to add redirects if any page URL's change (or at least the ones you want to redirect, some you may want to go 404-not found). If you're changing web host yes you'll need to update nameservers to point to your new host.

Welcome to the forums. 2-3000 products isn't a huge amount in the grand scheme of things, so any half decent platform should work. The thing I'd be looking at is how good the platform is with many more products and orders in case you need to scale up in the near future. I suggest you list out all your requirements, both what you need now and what you might need in the near future. Then look at as many cart systems as you can to find the best match. There's are many hundreds of ecommerce platforms out there so don't just stick to the big names! For old/new URL's get a master list of all your current pages. Then when you launch the new platform add some 301 redirects where necessary so any page value is transferred to the new URL.

Question - why would someone use you over an established domain seller?

Overall presentation and typography I do like, but usability is not good at all. For me the site is very laborious to use, why have that counter on every page load? It get very frustrating having to wait for it to finish before you can do anything. Where's the navigation? I'm looking on a 15" laptop and there's plenty of space for it - please don't hide it. Too much animation, two or three pages in I was feeling queezy. Poor accessibility for colour blind people (affects 1 in 5 men and 1 in 200 women). Your links don't have enough contrast to surrounding text because you've applied outline:none; and removed text-decoration on links. You've also not provided :focus states so even tabbing through the page you can't identify where the links are. So overall yes it's probably good as a showcase item, but real world needs work to make it usable and accessible.

You only need one site to sell your products, display all your products as normal but require a login to buy anything.

Ordinary Paypal buy buttons allow you up to 10 option fields, that should be enough to cover your needs.

A few things I noted: 1. You have 7 empty form labels 2. Numerous contrast issues (32 reported by Wave on the home page) 3. Home page weight is 8mb, try reducing the number of images, optimising images, and shedding unused CSS and Javascript.

Welcome to the forums. I've never heard of apprentices for web development, most people seem to be self taught, at least for basic HTML/CSS knowledge. My advice would be to start learning yourself, there are plenty of tutorial sites around such as https://www.learn-html.org/ or you could enroll on a course from the likes of https://www.codecademy.com/

Content marketing = filling the web with endless crap Real marketing = helping people solve problems

According to https://downdetector.com/status/bluehost/ lots of people are having issues with Bluehost in the last few days. I think you need to look for a better host.

Please don't add background music (or any other auto playing sound), that fad went out with the ark! Reasons not to: Its annoying Can be confusing, people might not know where the sound is coming from Can cause undue stress and anxiety Could be embarrassing if someone opened up the site at work or when they are in public and their speakers are turned on The audio file is dead weight and uses more energy to store and serve to visitors, many people have limited expensive mobile data, don't use it all up for them

Welcome to the forums I generally only measure the desired outcome(s) the site owner wants. For instance if it's an ecommerce site that's completing a purchase, or a general business site might want to use number of enquires as the measure. If those outcomes are not what's aimed for then I backtrack to see where failure points may be, for instance with ecommerce a checkout may be too confusing or long winded and people just give up. In that case you look at the process and see how you can improve it for customers. The metrics you mentioned are mostly pointless for me, they don't add anything useful. Success is having customers complete whatever task they set out to do.

A quick look revealed you're calling loads of Google fonts before your sites general styles. Add to that it seems to be fetching 0.5mb worth of font files before which is a huge amount and that could be delaying the rest of the page load. Suggestions: 1. Use fewer fonts, two or three should be more than enough 2. Call your Google fonts CSS after your site CSS, that way you'll get most of your layout/presentation before the fonts finish loading

Closed this thread as it's old.

There's no hard and fast rules as to how you do things like this. If you're using this to help sell a product it's worth experimenting with different approaches.

Welcome to the forums First off hosting the site in the USA isn't going to help, GoDaddy haven't got the best reputation either. Recommendation is to use a good UK based web host for a UK sites with a local audience. I counted about 1731 DOM elements on the page, couple that with all the Javascript you have can slow things down. Recommendation is to simplify your themes HTML structure, remove any plugins you're not using, and only call javascripts on the pages that need them Use fewer Google webfonts, currently you're calling 13 of them, if you can reduce that to 2 or 3. You're calling 16 individual CSS files, 600kb in total - that's a huge amount for a relatively straightforward site. A test reveals over 5800 CSS rules, most of which will never be used - as a comparison I manage a fairly big complex news portal and that only uses 1 CSS file with 286 CSS rules in total. Recommendation is to strip out CSS rules you'll never use and concantate your remaining CSS into fewer files. Finally, look at things like the home page carousel. Is that really necessary? Replacing that with a single static image could halve the weight of the page and help speed up load times.

You need to look at the types of thing you're going to be doing then make some judgments based on that. For example: If you wrote a custom theme and it took you 10 hours how much would you like to be compensated for that work? If you wanted £500 then that equates to £50/hour. If you wrote a quick plugin taking 1/2 hour how much would you want to be compensated for that? If you're doing some consultancy for a new client and need to attend some meetings do you charge your hourly rate or a fixed fee? If you're doing a full build with consultancy, planning, mockups, custom theme, commercial addons etc that may be a long project that spans over weeks and months. Do you charge per hour, or estimate the time you need and come up with a fixed price based on your hourly or daily rate? Charging hourly may blow your clients budget, so for bigger jobs you might want to use a slightly lower hourly rate. A potential client may have £3000 budget but you cost it in at £4000, what do you do? There's no one method to all of this, really it boils down to you finding your ideal hourly/daily rate and applying that to estimates. Be flexible if you want the work!

Both videos look like they're using a mockup/wireframing tool to demonstrate interactivity. I don't think there are any specific terms for this sort of thing, to me I'd call it a "wireframe demo".

I wouldn't either but if it's easier for the OP and all that! I built a credit card comparison site a few years ago using ExpressionEngine. That was actually much easier than I thought, just a case of using search to get 2 or more entry ID's, then pumping out entries for those ID's. No 3rd party addons required!