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almost

0 of 0 people found the following review helpful
The site is clean, so that is good, but things go down hill from there.

The logo and branding are non existent. Just type converted into a graphic, which effects the trustworthiness as well. If it looks fly-by-night, then it seems fly-by-night. Invest in your brand this lets people know you have invested in the company and plan to be around.

Template design starts off good, but then seems to give hint that it was trimmed down from a larger template. The header has a different style for each compnent left in use. Text effects on products and categories is unprofessional.

Product descriptions are long and if you do not already want this product, i am not certain that the product presentation and copy will sell you on it. But they do exist and likely come from the manufacturer.

Navigation was doing good until i tested the checkout button on the shopping cart page. The checkout is broken, the HTTPS_SERVER url are bad. No orders will be placed on this site until this is fixed. No other navigation is as important as the steps through the checkout process.

Trustworthiness is barely there. If not for the phone number on the contact us page, one would have no reason to believe this was a real company selling these products. Put your phone number out front in your header or footer. Display some trustmarks from your payment provicer, privacy vendor, ASV, hacker safe, something.

Contact Information is solid but it is only on the contact page.

It's a good start, but far from over. Keep at it.
Overall rating: 
 
2.3
Logo Presentation:
 
2.0
Template Design:
 
3.0
Product Descriptions:
 
3.0
Product Images:
 
2.0
Navigational Ease:
 
1.0
Trustworthiness :
 
2.0
Contact Information:
 
3.0
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Salvatore Iozzia Reviewed by Salvatore Iozzia
November 05, 2009

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Last updated: November 05, 2009
 
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Excellent use of advanced features

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Wow.

This is a great site.

Your logo is well done and your template picks up the color accents.

The template is solid and more then adequate for your market and product requirements. I'm leaving a little room for improvement in the typeface (some variation amongst navigation and content text) and use of composition with the visual elements of the infoboxes. Overall great looking site.

Product description are straighforward, as your product line is more than likely understood by your customers. However you may want to reach out to newbies and explain what the use of certain items are. Also you have done an excellent job on adding copy to your home page, you could also add copy to your category listings, using category description text, for SEO as well as guidance on use or tips to set your site a part from larger retailers.

Product image are ok. They are professional shots, but you are using the large image files in your small image placement. This is causing slower load times then nessecary and also makes the thumbnails blurry, due to broswer based image resizing. I recommend creating specific small files for your products, and using a sharpen filter (whenever you downsize an image, it gets blurry, alway hit it with a sharpen filter to crisp it right up)

Navigational ease. Excellent. All the links are easy to understand and go where you think they go!

Trustworthiness. Out of the park, almost. I was going to joke and say the only thing your site is missing is a mention from my mother recommending you, but then i realized that its not a joke, its the truth. You have an overwhelming display of trustmarks, but you should also display some customer feedback. In the crafting world, its very personal. Like on ebay, the items are commodity the reason they shop with you is your price and your service. Let new visitor know that your site makes happy customers.

You do display full contact information, and its good to manage customer expectations on phone availability and direct them to email if you are a small shop. I would like to see more contact us links in the template, or a box that lets them know how to contact you.

Also the shipping information box says to click to see the shipping rate, but there is no link.

One more thing, the use of Forms and Survey system for your wholesaler inquiries is spot on. Nice neat form. I would link to the terms and conditions in your form descriptions since you are requiring them to check that they read them.

Overall a great site based on CRE Loaded. Proud to be a part of your online success.

Sal Iozzia
Founder, Chief Visionary Officer and Project Evil Overlord
Overall rating: 
 
4.3
Logo Presentation:
 
5.0
Template Design:
 
4.0
Product Descriptions:
 
4.0
Product Images:
 
3.0
Navigational Ease:
 
5.0
Trustworthiness :
 
4.0
Contact Information:
 
5.0
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Salvatore Iozzia Reviewed by Salvatore Iozzia
June 22, 2009

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What's a Chirco?

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Chirco, Baby, I love ya.

When i said on the forums, i was going to trash your site in the reviews, i was joking. I did not anticipate the irony my words would place me in once i reviewed your site. I truly come to this review unbiased. The following word are only meant to help you in your success!

Logo - you have no logo. Text on a photograph do not make a logo brand. Invest some engery into a visually reproducable logo mark, or treatment. The lack of consistency is more apparent when visiting the other properties in your domain, each takes a different stab at a logo or branding attempt.

Could you make your site a little narrower. God man, for the love of wide screen monitors, make your site 1000 pixels wide. The largest majority of monitors now are largest than 1024 x 768. Many now are 1440 wide.

Your product description are good, they seems throughout, but are as short as possible im leaving a little room for improvement for more keywords optimization in the product descriptions

Navigation was great until i clicked on the tabs in the header, which sent me to whole other applications or domains, with no consistent navigation back to the store. Work on your matching your headers or make clear that there are other sites, like instead of Whats Happening, let people know its a blog.

Trustworthiness, your site could use some better trust marks, or customer testimonials. Yes it has a Starfeild seal, I have never heard of starfield and its only ssl seal, your social media efforts make up alot of what makes your site trustworthy. Good trust, but room for improvement.

Good contact information, it's all there, I love phone numbers in the header.

Overall the site is good, cold be wider, better more consitant branding and navigation, which is more about setting customer expectation in where the links go.

Keep it up, look forward to seeing what is next.

Sal Iozzia
Founder, CVO and EO
Overall rating: 
 
3.7
Logo Presentation:
 
2.0
Template Design:
 
3.0
Product Descriptions:
 
4.0
Product Images:
 
4.0
Navigational Ease:
 
4.0
Trustworthiness :
 
4.0
Contact Information:
 
5.0
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Salvatore Iozzia Reviewed by Salvatore Iozzia
June 10, 2009

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Nice Start. Dont Stop now.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Nice site selling cables and related accessories. I can understand keeping it simple, but you might want to change the colors of the template from the default template or purchase a professional template.

The logo presentation is clean, nice use of the slogan feature.

Product descriptions are nice and long but easy to read because they are broken up with paragraphs and formatting

Product Images are very clear and crisp, although small in places, i like how the pop up image is not always the same as the small or medium. Do a close up show some detial. I did not see any use of additional images. Also product listings did not display images in categories, consider changing your listing to Columns verses rows.

Navigation was easy, basic categories and some FAQ's and supporting pages.

Trustworthiness, overall good, but no phone number, I like the seals on in the footer, and the company address is on the contact page, but you should have a phone number as well, this also effected your contact information vote.

Overall Very good site, you have some room to improve.

Also i checked your source code and you could use more meta tags keywords. Good to see you using SEO urls. But dont forget to LINK OUT to other sites. Use the Product URL feature to link to the generic Brand sites for the product info. Consider using the links manager for related site links.

Keep it up, and good hunting!

Sal Iozzia
Founder, CVO and EO
Overall rating: 
 
4.2
Logo Presentation:
 
5.0
Template Design:
 
2.0
Product Descriptions:
 
5.0
Product Images:
 
4.0
Navigational Ease:
 
5.0
Trustworthiness :
 
4.0
Contact Information:
 
4.0
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Salvatore Iozzia Reviewed by Salvatore Iozzia
June 10, 2009

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Always there, giving 110%

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
I cannot recommend anyone more than Jason Miller to work with for your creloaded site. He is a knowledgeable community member and the most dedicated of them as well.
Overall rating: 
 
5.0
Professionalism:
 
5.0
Timeliness:
 
5.0
Workmanship:
 
5.0
Affordability:
 
5.0
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Salvatore Iozzia Reviewed by Salvatore Iozzia
May 26, 2009

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The Market Leader

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
The template is good, very engaging if a bit busy. Logo is well done and professional. Vivid excels at solid product descriptions for its thousands of products. The images are small until you click on them, then you see huge high rez sharp image.

Navigation is easy, thanks to the Year, Make and Model code (custom code via works).

The site invokes a strong sense of trust. Has ample contact information.
Overall rating: 
 
4.6
Logo Presentation:
 
5.0
Template Design:
 
5.0
Product Descriptions:
 
5.0
Product Images:
 
3.0
Navigational Ease:
 
4.0
Trustworthiness :
 
5.0
Contact Information:
 
5.0
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Salvatore Iozzia Reviewed by Salvatore Iozzia
May 19, 2009

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