[thelist] [Site Review] Gemsnjewelry.com

[Pooja Suri]

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marc,

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> From: Marc Seyon
>
> Interesting use of the CSS to place the image in the
> header in the background. Seems a bit complicated
> though. Couldn't you have simply used the image in the
> foreground, with the text in the span as the alt text?
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i could have.  but, this was an experiment in building a site that degraded
to essentially a text-based version of the site if css wasn't used.

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> That way even without CSS they get the header image
> (though you'd need to set the background colour so it
> won't look out of place). I would also have placed the
> entire bit into an h1, that way even without CSS or
> images loaded the text is given h1 styling. (And also
> weight in SE rankings?)
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potentially good idea about the <h1>.  however, an <h1>, for best search
engine relevance, should reflect the words found in the title, the url, and
the text linking to that page.

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> - The "Featured Item" appears to be lavender jade
>   earrings and large garnet necklace.
>   Couldn't (shouldn't) that wording then be "Featured
>   Items"? (plural)
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got me on the plural bit.  that's fixed now.  fwiw, the product that shows
up on the homepage is completely random.

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> - There seems to be more verbiage on the front page than
>   is usually seen these days. Whether that's good or bad
>   is debatable. Personally, given that it's an online
>   storefront, I would have wanted more items visible up
>   front.  "Sell before you tell" as someone recently
>   sold me.
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that's something i would have done with a complete redesign.  however, this
is strictly based off an existing design.  the difference with this
implementation is the client has complete control over the content on the
homepage.

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> - On the gallery pages (eg http://beta.gemsnjewelry.com/gallery/ebay/)
>   every item has "Price: Call for pricing!" Why not give
>   a blanket "Call for pricing" statement at the top?
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i did a quick job of entering the product from his old site into the system
for the new site.  i'm leaving the tweaking of things like pricing up to
him.  i'm guessing he'll fill the price fields in with relevant information
so it won't say "call for pricing" anymore.

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> - On the item pages, I know very little about selling
>   jewellery, however the differentiation between
>   "Retail" and "Price" confused the heck out of me.
>   And even the retail info, eg "$ 50.00. Your price
>   for 3 or more is only $14.99 each" didn't exactly
>   clarify matters much.
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this client is in the business of obtaining great products at rock-bottom
prices and turning them to one of two types of customers.  the first is the
basic consumer who's interested in buying one.  every one of those sales
happens on ebay.  the second type is the customer who wants to buy in
quantity to resell on ebay.  in both cases the retail price is there to give
both customers an idea of the retail price of the goods.

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> Also, very minor, in the retail info, there is a space
> between the first dollar sign ($ 50.00) and the number,
> however the second one the  "each" price does not have
> this space ($14.99).
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> - Browser-specific comment. In IE5.5 (Win2k) the bar
>   underneath the navigation links slides over to the
>   left and overlaps the border.
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that's probably due to my use of "margin: 5px auto;".

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> I'm going to withhold any copy/colour comments cause I
> know lots of times developers don't have much say in
> this, especially when it's an old site being rebuilt.
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and in the case of copy, no say since the client has tools to control every
last drop of it.

thanks,

.jeff

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