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[Anonymous]

:roll: Hello from USA, North Carolina:

I am a little shy so please forgive me, its my first time ever posting to a forum. I feel like I'm standing naked in front of a bunch of strangers : -)

I am a retired Army sargeant. I was stationed at Ft. Bragg, NC, home of the famous 82nd Airborne Division. I now live in the surounding area. I am originally from the big apple, New York City. I now work in security in Ft. Bragg. I guess I subconsciously never wanted to leave the army. So I stay close to the soldiers.

Beside my full time job I launched a website earlier this year. Around August I decided to start an online shopping mall with all kinds of merchandise. Everything from consumer electronics and bodybuilding suppliments to martail art gear. The website is: www.24-7bargainshop.com if anyone is curious. I have been told and read that forums and blogs, etc. are a good way of creating traffic to the site. To date I have had approximately 1204 hits. But unfortunately no one has purchased anything. I wonder if any of you could critique my website and point me in the direction of improvement. Maybe something is missing.

Thank you for your time.

[Jayne]

Hi Bobby,

Welcome to the forum :D

Jayne

[MSOMedia]

Hi Bobby, welcome to the Forums.

There are a couple of "mistakes" made by your designer. For one, the page is too wide for about 95% of people's screens, so a scroll bar is always visible.

There's a lot of vertical scrolling involved aswell. For example, as a fat guy - which I am - I might be looking for weight loss products. I'd probably never find them because I don't tend to scroll down to read menu items. A way to get round it is to use nested categories, like "Health Products > Weight Loss", "Electronics - Cameras

You could move some of the elements on your home page around, so that the eCommerce stuff is more prominant.

You could try having something like a "featured product" on your home page with a "buy now" link, so your visitors know straight away what they're looking at.

I'd be happy to give you a full critique if you're interested, to help you increase your hits, your search engine ranking and improve your sales. If you're interested, please feel free to e-mail me at mark@msomedia.com.

Kind regards,
Mark Steadman