Archive for the “ecommerce” category
25 Beautiful Ecommerce Websites
by Vandelay Website Design on January 2, 2012
If done effectively, the design of an ecommerce website can help to improve the user’s experience, which will also improve the results for the company. While many ecommerce sites are lacking in terms of design quality, that is not the case with all of them. In this post we’ll showcase 25 websites that prove ecommerce websites can be attractive.
25 Ecommerce Websites for Your Design Inspiration
by Vandelay Website Design on July 19, 2011
Ecommerce websites can be one of the more challenging types of websites for designers. There is a lot that needs to be considered (see 9 Characteristics of Well-Designed Ecommerce Websites) and the design decisions can have a significant impact on the effectiveness of the website at converting visitors to customers.
In this post we’ll showcase 25 ecommerce websites that feature an attractive visual design. They should serve as an excellent source of inspiration when working on ecommerce projects of your own.
30 Outstanding Ecommerce Websites
by Vandelay Website Design on January 19, 2011
Ecommerce websites have a reputation for being poorly designed or uninteresting, but of course that is not the case with all ecommerce designs. In this post we’ll showcase 30 sites that show ecommerce can be done in an attractive manner. This post presents a variety of different design styles, as well as sites that are selling a variety of different types of products. Each manages to have an attractive design while still keeping the focus on the products, not allowing the design to overpower what is most important.
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13 Options for Selling Digital Products on Your Website
by Vandelay Website Design on December 8, 2010
There is no shortage of options for managing an e-commerce website. There are all kinds of shopping carts and e-commerce content management systems that have a wide variety of strengths and weaknesses. Finding the right option for selling digital downloads, however, can prove to be a challenge.
There are a lot of factors to consider when selling digital files. You’ll need an effective setup for instant delivery. There are choices to be made between a flat pricing structure or per transaction fees. You can either host the files on your own or go with a provider that will host the files for you. You’ll also have to decide what features are important to you, such as being able to offer coupon codes and managing an affiliate program. If you’re selling a large number of products and/or large files it will only make your decision process more complicated and pricey.
We recently added functionality to Vandelay Premier for selling digital files (an alternative to purchasing a membership) and sorting through the different options took a considerable amount of time and effort. We thought it would be helpful to many designers and online business owners to share some of the information that we found. Ultimately, we decided on E-Junkie for a few reasons:
- It allows us to host our own files on Amazon S3, which reduces the cost of storing the large files of our products.
- Lots of features.
- Ease of use. Adding products and inserting buttons into your site is very simple and quick.
- Reputation.
It’s likely that your situation is much different from ours, so here we will present 13 different options for selling and delivering digital files, along with a brief description of each.
E-Junkie
E-Junkie can be used to sell digital products or tangible goods, but it provides a wide variety of features that make it very popular for selling digital products. E-Junkie will host your digital files (or you can host them yourself) and they’ll provide secure downloads for your customers while protecting your products. E-Junkie includes affiliate management, discount codes, autoresponders and more. Pricing is a flat monthly fee (no fees per transaction) based on the number of products you are selling and the amount of disk space needed, unless you are hosting the files yourself. Place “buy now” or “add to cart” buttons anywhere on your site to start selling with E-Junkie.
25 Creative E-Commerce Website Designs
by Vandelay Website Design on February 8, 2010
E-Commerce sites are often considered to be boring and unattractive, however, that is not always the case. This post showcases 25 e-commerce sites that demonstrate creativity in the design. It may be the layout, graphics, design style or site structure, but all of them break the mould of the typical e-commerce site. For more inspiration from e-commerce sites, see our gallery CartFrenzy.
35 Excellent Ecommerce User Interface Designs
by Vandelay Website Design on November 16, 2009
While user experience is important on all types of websites, it is especially critical for ecommerce websites where visitors will be making purchases. A poor user experience will result in visitors having difficulty finding what they want, frustration during shopping, and many lost sales. In this post we will showcase the design of 35 e-commerce websites for your own UI design inspiration. The sites that are showcased in this post have also been featured at CartFrenzy, our gallery of the best ecommerce web design.
