Brand New Site....What Do you Think?

I think it is pretty awesome and I love what you are trying to do. IT is pretty impressive that you are giving all the profits back to the village and is a brilliant example of fair trade at it's finest.

The range of silks that you are selling looks pretty broad and I really like the idea that I get a little picture of whoever weaved my silk.

I wonder whether more gift type items might be a good idea as by just selling the silk you reduce down the number of people who might be prepared to buy.

I am also not totally convinced by the colour of your section Why Buy Thai Silk on the home page and I am not totally convinced by the Wibiya toolbar. I can't make up my mind if I love or hate them, although I do like the youtube wall that it creates!

In design i found a bug in dropdown menu. When roll out from the dropdown menu, the top portion is disappearing faster than the remaining part.

Very beautiful site.
Your site has a purpose and the purpose is quite real.
What you are doing is profound, I hope that every person in this forum today can use what they have learned to make lives better for everyone around the world. Not just their BMWs and whatever new pictures people are putting these days.

I will be using your site in my signature as well as an example to the power of IM. If that is ok with you?

EDIT: I also note that you have some testimonials, can you please find a way to give them more attention (Above the fold if possible), especially on the home page. I think it will help greatly.

For a average user like me, I think this website looks very professional. However, I think it would look a little better if all your thumbnails were the same sizes. When I scrolled down I saw tall rectangle and normal squared thumbnails, which when combined didnt look that great. Also, I think the description font of products can be improved.

However, these are just my opinions, but again, I am an average user.

looks fine to me. it's not one of those sites i visit and want to click away immediately.
pretty nice design makes you want to look around...

I really like the layout. Well done.

I love the layout, nice white space, clean yet attractive.

Nice job!

hey there

The website is good and this is a good way to get visitors to your website.

Professionally done webpage!

The silk pieces all look a bit plain, though. Any with designs on them? (Maybe I didn't look carefully.)

Peter… Clean site but most appealing is your story of helping the village. I wonder if you could have a small box on the landing page that starts the story, some kind of graphic to draw you in and then "read more" so it takes the viewer to the page with details of your compelling story. Your priorities inspire me to want to be a better person. Thanks I hope people buy a ton of product from you.

I love sewing (and especially with silks!) and that it is for a good cause makes this really exciting.

So my focus was on looking at the fabrics. I found the navigation a bit confusing. For example, I couldn't find a general page for the Fabrics. In the breadcrumbs there is mention of "Thai Silk Fabrics" but clicking on the link did nothing. Also there were two breadcrumbs for Silk for Casual Clothes (but only one with a link).



It would be good to see a general page for fabrics so it is clear to see what options there are. I like the categories of casual/special/home but I think it would also be useful to have categories for colour and fabric type.

Also, a major market for silk is the bridal market so some tools to help brides (and rank in searches) wouldn't go astray. e.g. a page on appropriate white silks for the bride, articles in the blog on design and fabric choice.

I would recommend having a sample service as this is pretty standard for online fabric purchases. By all means charge for it. $5-20 is normal. When I bought silk for my wedding dress, I ended up with at least six metres of some $60/m fabric - there was no way I was purchasing anything without having first seen and felt a sample.

I'd also like to see more explanation of the different types of fabrics and subsequent care in a Reference section as there are so many different types of silk and if you can't see and touch the silk, information is crucial.

Good luck, I'll be keeping it in my bookmarks!

congrats for ur new website.....

great site, great idea, but just the fact that as soon as i visited the site it asked my browser to pop up a window, i am not liking that at all...but good site and idea

I like it, and what you are going to do with the site is great !! keep it up your good work

I also love the idea and hope your village does well. Just a suggestion; there are two main navigation bars that behave differently (one drop down is blue with white text and one is black text) yet the information overlaps - maybe just one navigation bar?

Then another photo navigation. The photos with people in them are great.

I would wonder what is the difference between silk wraps and silk scarves. And how to wrap them.

All in all, a very fine site. Thank you for sharing it.

Since I myself am studying to launch an online business in the spring I'm probably not qualified to even give feedback, but here goes:

I have read in a couple of different books and in some other educational material to make checkout as easy as possible. In one book Amazon.com is given as an example of ease of checkout and a model to try to follow. The material I have read said to not have a shopping cart that requires registration to make a purchase or it will cause you to lose sales. Unless I missed something your shopping cart requires registration to make the purchase.

These days while I am preparing material for my upcoming site I look at every site I can to see their checkout system and more and more sites seem to be going the route of easy checkout --- not having to register.

This is a great website and I wish you the best of luck. Now get to work promoting it.

I think that your site is excellent!

nice layout. and very well user interface. your site is great.

ashish patel

Looks great!

Your site looks great.. I like the color combination.

Powered by Joomla, right?

I like the design bro, very stylish and elegant and it serves it purpose.

It like the colours and the completeness, it is good that you have paid attention to adding a URL ICON and you've kept everything clean and easy on the eye.

Overall 8.5/10 - very nice website.


That's my honest opinion, I hope this helps,

Zer0

Great site. But please do not add any pop up

good presentation. It's dynamic. I think at the right of latest design you could add a sample set color just like the upper set for sale.

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The only suggestion I have since you do have a shopping cart is to add some type of SSL Certificate to build trust.

I like the design, you may want to make the second menu vertical, so that there isn't 2 horizontal menu's, it kinda distracts your vision away from the main nav.

really clean and easy to navigate. But I think the "New" (welcome pop-up) is unnecessary.

I think the website is great. I should buy one of those silk scarves!