BritishCandyBars

[Gavo]

Make some sort of selection boxes with assorted goods, then you can pre-calculate the postage better.

[FancyPants]

Make the background white, so the images blend in. Something like this: http://www.candyfavorites.com/candy/bulk-candy-wrapped

[NightMare]

Cool site , i liked it

[SJshah]

You still have a lot of work to do mate.

The only thing that's making the site look unprofessional are those small images, try to find bigger images, and maybe make them with rounded corners?

That isnt the only thing making the site look unprofessional IMO.
Yes, it would be much better if you had bigger images, each of identical size and background. Take your own pictures of images - upload them with your logo watermarked in the corner/across the center of the image.

But, there is a whole load of things that can be improved to make the site look more professional. Firstly the theme, its very unprofresh - use a fixed width header, body and footer - much more professional on a ecommerce website. Secondly, get a logo (unique, possiably containing the UK/British flag) and matching favicon (looks very unprofresh atm). Use a well-defined layout on product pages - images (at least 3 per product) - info - description - bookmark/share links - reviews - max of 4 similar products.

These small things will put people off making purchases:
http://feed2.me/i/n5xbmx.png - whats going on here? too many oragne buttons - confusing.
http://feed2.me/i/6ugbb8.png - cluttered
http://feed2.me/i/ki82o4.png - cluttered
http://feed2.me/i/2iochz.png - categories + tags are the same, doesnt look good + no good for seo.

You gotta remember that people are dumb, shit like this confuses them. Make it look good and the money will roll in. You need to get a new theme IMO - one which is compact and looks like a chocolat bar with a milky header


Small things make a big difference - a difference of making $100/week to $1000 a week.



On the SEO side of things, theres a lot to improve too. I would love to go into it for you, but since I'm selling an SEO service it would be unfair to analyse your site for free, hope you understand. I think I've given you enough tips on the design aspect though - work on that.

[Sp32]

- Put product images (transparent) in boxes.
- Change USD to British Pounds.
- This menu could be better, other font or jQuery/css effects:
http://imgcrave.com/?vH2tN.png

All others looks okay

I changed the theme so the white background doesn't look so visible and out of place, I have to keep it as USD as I am targeting Americans and the image returned a 404, thank you for your input l0calh0st

Website Looks Cool and Somewhat Professional But i hate those white images Background edit them with Your template colour other than, every things looks settled and impressive, Good Luck!!

Thanks, I have done this

Site is OK, but can't you just walk into any supermarket and buy these? Why spend $1 on shipping?

https://chevychasesupermarket.elssto...er-eight-mints

US$4.59

Why would people pay you $5.50 + $1.10 = $ 6.60 and having to wait days or weeks?

And why not use 'brought' instead of 'brang'. Use colloquial English instead of urban terms.

Site is aimed on the US market (and so are the shipping costs), so no need to put in GBP.

I obviously can't sell my products cheaper than local stores as it costs me to post the items, it costs me roughly ?10 per kilogram to ship to united states, the website is meant to be more of a luxury to buy chocolate that you can't get locally, no matter what your country is, so that's the reason the prices are high, I'm not going to make myself lose money, I think I'll be earning around ?2 per order based on orders of around 10 items. Also I don't understand where have I used 'brought' instead of bought, please show me, thank you for your input.

1$ shipping???? are you nuts??? 20 items 20$?? i rather buy in asda or tesco with free delivery

Once again, of course I can't be local stores, the website is meant for a luxury to get chocolate from a different country that you can't get locally, and if you work out the postage costs from the UK to the USA you'll realise it isn't free.

Make some sort of selection boxes with assorted goods, then you can pre-calculate the postage better.

That's a good idea, I shall implement this, thank you.

Cool site , i liked it

Thanks buddy

You still have a lot of work to do mate.

That isnt the only thing making the site look unprofessional IMO.
Yes, it would be much better if you had bigger images, each of identical size and background. Take your own pictures of images - upload them with your logo watermarked in the corner/across the center of the image.

But, there is a whole load of things that can be improved to make the site look more professional. Firstly the theme, its very unprofresh - use a fixed width header, body and footer - much more professional on a ecommerce website. Secondly, get a logo (unique, possiably containing the UK/British flag) and matching favicon (looks very unprofresh atm). Use a well-defined layout on product pages - images (at least 3 per product) - info - description - bookmark/share links - reviews - max of 4 similar products.

These small things will put people off making purchases:
http://feed2.me/i/n5xbmx.png - whats going on here? too many oragne buttons - confusing.
http://feed2.me/i/6ugbb8.png - cluttered
http://feed2.me/i/ki82o4.png - cluttered
http://feed2.me/i/2iochz.png - categories + tags are the same, doesnt look good + no good for seo.

You gotta remember that people are dumb, shit like this confuses them. Make it look good and the money will roll in. You need to get a new theme IMO - one which is compact and looks like a chocolat bar with a milky header

Small things make a big difference - a difference of making $100/week to $1000 a week.

On the SEO side of things, theres a lot to improve too. I would love to go into it for you, but since I'm selling an SEO service it would be unfair to analyse your site for free, hope you understand. I think I've given you enough tips on the design aspect though - work on that.

Thanks a lot for your detailed reply, I shall change the favicon to a british flag, I've changed the style back to a previous style, I'm considering removing the rating systems stars and just keeping reviews as the stars make the site look bad imo. I shall start photographing my own images once I have started earning money from the website as I don't want to go out and buy a bunch of chocolate bars that just stay dormant in my house as I don't really like eating chocolate that much, but I do agree this will be better for the appearance and quality of my website.

I shall do some more edits today, hopefully I'll be finished by the end of tonight, thanks

[sniffdog]

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I obviously can't sell my products cheaper than local stores as it costs me to post the items, it costs me roughly ?10 per kilogram to ship to united states, the website is meant to be more of a luxury to buy chocolate that you can't get locally, no matter what your country is, so that's the reason the prices are high, I'm not going to make myself lose money, I think I'll be earning around ?2 per order based on orders of around 10 items. Also I don't understand where have I used 'brought' instead of bought, please show me, thank you for your input.
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1) I do think these things are easily obtainable in the States. See the link to a small US grocery retailer. He sells it for US$4.59, instead of US$6.60 you ask for it.
2) I said that you used 'brang' instead of 'brought'. From About Us:
'Well we are a family in a small town in England called Northampton, we were all born in England and we wanted to help bring the family closer together by creating a business which we brang to the internet.'

[Sp32]

Yes, things I sell will be available in the USA but maybe not Australia, or maybe not India, or maybe they are just there to increase backlinks, either way they don't have a negative impact on sales towards other items; unless someone left the shop after looking at a price of one item.

Also I see, cheers, I will change it to "that we brought"

[doni]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVblWq3tDwY&NR=1

do you got this chocolate from this add too @sp32 ?

[Sp32]

Sure do