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Head of Home Shopping at Fortnum and Mason
26 September 2007 10:53am
Today sees the launch of our new website - please do take a look at http://www.cotswoldco.com/ - hope you like! We also have a new Kitchen collection launched online.
Any comments, please feel free to send to me at
Steph Ridley, Head of E-Commerce, The Cotswold Company
CEO at Econsultancy
26 September 2007 17:14pm
Hi Steph
Looks good - I like the judicious use of Ajax to refresh the pages for various things. Nice and slick.
Only comments on a quick browse would be:
- I didn't find it very clear in the left hand sub-nav which level I was at. As you drill down the various levels all looked the same to me so I didn't know what was nested under what unless I looked at the breadcrumb to help me out. You could use different shadings, indents, dashes etc. to show what level you are at?
- Your site search (celebros) looks like it still needs some tuning. I searched for 'shelves' and then refined by room (bedroom) and got pretty much only cupboards back. The actual navigation within the site search could be better I think e.g. the filters are not that clear (currently on the left but could be more directly beneath the 'you searched on...' section?) and they also disappear as you drill down e.g. I filtered by room but couldn't then change that choice without hitting back.
But I have sent my wife a few links for things to look at...;) (which shows the importance of "permanent" fixed URLs). I did wonder whether you'd suffer from the Ajax bits for 'more views' on product details not being indexed by search engines and not having their own URLs but I guess you wouldn't necessarily need those pages to 'exist' in their own right.
Regards
Ashley Friedlein
CEO
E-consultancy.com
Head of Home Shopping at Fortnum and Mason
26 September 2007 17:32pm
Thanks for your comments Ashley, much appreciated and very useful. I will certainly include your comments into our phase2 discussions. It's been a busy old time as you can imagine! See you soon
On 17:14:42 26 September 2007 Ashley wrote:
Head Of E Commerce - Travel at Co-operative Travel
02 October 2007 12:51pm
Hi Steph
I love the colours and the layout of the site. I agree with Ash regarding the navigation and the search - some simple design changes will sort it out nicely. I also like the amount of info you have put in the checkout pages - delivery info, prices and times are all very clear. (you may want to add the returns policy there too)
On the lister or search results pages, I would add the page numbers, next and back button to the bottom RHS of the page to make the journey through the site easier.
All in all a great site.
Tracey
N/A
23 April 2008 10:58am
Hi,
Website looks very cool. Just out of interest, who designed it? Have a website I might want revamped....
Thanks
On 10:53:32 26 September 2007 StephRidley wrote:
Director at 2infinity Ltd
24 April 2008 08:28am
Hi Steph,
Site looks very nice - agree with all the comments above, I would just add on my screen the image options (zoom in / out etc) text are quite faint on my screen and hard to read. Best Al