Advanced ecommerce web design Tips

Oct 23, 2012
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This article covers the major aspects of eCommerce sites, one of the most frequently accessed websites on the internet. With the advent of the internet and shopping online, shopping has become a totally comfortable task. You can easily order anything online right from pizzas to gadgets to clothes etc. To cater to this growing demand for goods online and the facilities these businesses provide several companies have gone online. Just as the user enjoys e shopping, he has also become very choosy as he has a wide variety of websites to choose from. So to survive in this highly competitive field it has become essential to be the best.

Here are some tips on building an effective eCommerce website:

Flaunt your bag of goodies:

You should definitely make it clear why you are the best and why customers should purchase from you? Do you give good offers? Frequent sales? Any interesting discount? Do you provide free delivery and fast shipment? Any other interesting deals that require special attention ? Flaunt it all. Make it very clear and evident on your website that you provide excellent quality product, a huge collection to choose and all the other positive features of your business. This will help people value your website. Once you have got a good impression you now have to ensure that the design and structure of your site is up to the mark.

Multiple paths to product of your choice:
To make your website easy to navigate, provide many ways to find the product that your customer is looking for. As each individual has different methods of locating items on the website, you have to ensure that your websites suited to every individual’s requirements. You can give predictive inputs in the search box to help streamline the process while for those who love to browse multiple sites, its better to enable easy product display. Get your customers interested in you by keeping them updated with what’s new and the latest products on your site. You can help them find related products as well as to a bit of customization to get them a list of products that are similar to their previous searches. This will lend an air of personalization.

Easy and Convenient:
They key to retaining customers and ensuring a good customer-experience is to ensure that your site is totally customer centric, user-friendly and easy to navigate. The visitor should be able to easily locate what he is looking for, go through vast arrays of products and run a comparative analysis etc. If you make these basic requirements cumbersome, it‘ll frustrate the visitor and in some cases drive them away. Always give a thorough and detailed description of the products, its availability, price, variations etc. even enabling users to collect multiple items in the shopping cart and checking them all out together also makes a huge difference.

Privacy and Security:
Being an eCommerce website several transactions would be performed on your site, ensure that all of these are done in a safe and secure payment gateway. You can use popular options like Paypal and Google Checkout.

Additional Charges:
Often certain products on the site are found to be cheaper than expected and people opt to buy them, but if you impose additional charges for shipping and delivery and if they happen to be unreasonably high, customers would feel cheated and get discouraged. These are a few essentials for a successful eCommerce website.
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