Please Review My Site.

[harry96794]

I am currently running Google Adwords campaigns and had been running Looksmart campaigns until recently. I am geting about 500-800 visitors a day to my site - yet $0 sales.

Can anyone tellme what they do/don't like about my site?
http://www.GiftsIdeasSolutions.com

I have read many forumn posts, talked to a few experts and we all seem to be stumped. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!
- Harry

[JPnyc]

Well for me it would be those dreamweaver javascript functions. Your dynamic navigation menu is way too slow to react. That's typical of functions that come out of dreamweaver. Other than that, the site it a bit busy and kitcshy visually. I'd lose the border around the whole thing, that sort of thin redish design that looks a bit like embroidery.

[dcomiskey]

A few comments. First, why do you have all of those links at the bottom? They aren't affiliate links, so I don't understand why you'd waste any space on them on an e-commerce site.
Second, I think the design of the overall site (esp the home page) looks too cluttered and amateurish. For example, your logo is terribly overcompressed and looks blurry and pixelated.
Also, maybe it's just me, but it seems there's such an overwhelming choice of random, unrelated products. I realize this is a gift site, but there's just too much stuff, IMO.

[harry96794]

Thanks for the assistance. I took several of your suggestions to heart - namely the border around the site and I altered the navigation so that it loads a little faster.

I am including free shipping on all orders to see if that helps conversion to sales.

Any other thoughts?

[JPnyc]

Well it wouldn't load at all for me just now, so I can't see anything at the moment. I'll try again later

[dcomiskey]

Your getting there. Although, one of the oldest no-no's on the Web is not to use flashing text, as you are doing with the free shipping. Also, I'm using Firefox and the navigation menu is now streeeeeetched out vertically.
Also, you have 3 top sellers on the left. I would make them more prominent, not secondary. Put them in the middle of the page.

[jgnyc]

Here's a problem - I keep cookies turned off in Firefox and only add a site to my exceptions list after I've spent some time on the site and have decided to make a purchase or register for forums or something similar. However YOUR site gave me a "cookies required" notice immediately and I couldn't even view the home page. I'm sure I don't represent the majority here, but, personally, I won't even look at a site if I have to turn on cookies without knowing what's there. So... sorry. I couldn't even visit your site to review it!

[harry96794]

Aside from some of the negative comments that have been displayed here...does anyone like anything about this site? I realize that it is useful to get some brute honesty - but it was also be useful to know what works well,so I do not fool with it. Some of the criticisms stem from the fact that I am using a packaged software that does not give me 100% control on every design aspect of the site. The last comment about Firefox - when I check my web logs of the 5000+ users in the past month - 6 have used Firefox, so its not exactly a huge concern. Internet Explorer & Netscape make up 99.98% of all my users and that is who I cater to when I develop - as do most savvy web developers. No website will ever work perfectly in all web browsers unless its an online brochure with nothing but straight HTML and even then....

[JPnyc]

I think it's a good look overall, but now the popup menus aren't coming up at all for me. Did you decide to axe em? I wouldn't have any compunction about ordering from the site, but I'm viewing in IE. In firefox the left nav is still a mess. There's about an inch of space, horizontally, between each link item.

[A.Brain]

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[vbeal]

I didn't have any problems with the category links loading on the left-hand navigation, however I do find them, personally to be annoying to use. I'm more of a straight click and go person and I dislike having to move through menus on a Web site to get to where I want to go. The main section of your Web site -- the area which your eyes will go to first is filled with text. I would recommend you remove most of that text or push it further down the page and fill that important center space with beautiful images of the products you are trying to sell online. (i.e. move that Top Sellers section to the main part of the front page and let your products speak for themselves). You can also do a section in there as product spotlights and show smaller images from different categories with text links to "see more Health & Beauty" or "See more Furniture", and make those links go to a sub category main page. I just really think you need to display more products in that white center space on the main page, instead of that text.

[AuctionMan]

Would it not be better to feature some products in a more prominent position ie. middle of the page so as to highlight what you sell. The text in the middle can be reduced drastically and the free shipping notice can be kept but made less 'texty' and more 'graphical' (if that makes sense).

Your logo needs looking at as mentioned previously, its way to compressed hence the blur.

You do seem to have quite an extensive range which I personally think is a good thing but feel you need to make more of the product stand out and highlight what the great offer is etc etc.

HTH,

Mike

[SmallBizCRM]

Are those 500-800 unique visitors every day? statbrain.com, which is quite optimistic with its results, seems to contradict this.

What keywords are they using to find you ie. how targeted are your visitors?

I would vary your ALT tags on your one page I looked at, as they are all the same and could be construed as keyword stuffing spam.

Where does the fortune3.com duplicate page fit into the equation?

Perry
www.SmallBizCRM.com