Well we have a lot of small nuances mostly type and style sheets for our tabbed descripts but i have to go into each one and assign a tag to the descripts. But other than that I am curious if our navigation is easy to use and that finding things is easy. Having a hard time figuring out if since our switchover our rankings in seo placement. Some stuff comes up some stuff doesnt but we will give it time. The only thing we have optimized so far is our xcel wetsuits category in terms of seo as best as we could make it. Were a small mom and pop shop but we like to think we look pretty good and provide a lot of customer care service thats really helped us out in terms of loyal customers.
We would like to do a live chat and more phone service but fiscally speaking, its not a payable position we can afford right now to have someone in front of a chat box all day.

So yeah, please look us over and let us know what you think. seasidesurfshop.com

j

j:
I am in no way an expert on web design but I do look at other sites a lot and here's my 2cents. I am currently going through a redo myself.

• The first thing I notice is that the page background is a bit "Busy". It seems to distract from what you want people to look at.

• The "Select" box in the header is confusing. Make the "Search" box more prominent

Your View Cart, Customer Help and Password recovery should all be in their own boxes

• Your Drop Down Menues need to stand out more. Encase them in a button or make them Bold

• It seems I have to drill too deep (number of clicks) to get where I can place an item in the cart for purchase. I think two clicks are the norm.

• When I'm into the website I couldn't find where to return "Home". Found it finally in the Header Image. You may want to consider placing a "Home-About US- Shipping Policy- Site Map" etc in your footer or at least a Home button for Navigation.

I hope this helps. There are some great people on the boards that can lend some valuable insight into you site. I just viewed it from a buyers perspective.
Rich

I was thinking along the lines of doing most of those things and i thank you for taking the time to review and make suggestions. The thirty days of migration didnt really give me a lot of time-so i am now trying to catch up and get the tweaks figured out.

I am still having problems getting my header to be perfect. Ideally I would like the drop down to contain the words "manufacturer select" and have the word "Enter Keyword" in the search box that disappears when a cursor goes in. i used Firefox to try to understand how to manipulate it. Also in firefox the manufacturer drop down doesnt align to the right like it does in IE. I havent the foggiest how to fix that.

copying the live edit i did with firebug allowed me to see the manfucturer select text can easily be put in, what i cant find is what file i am trying to mod.
this little bit below is what showed the option value but i dont know what to do with it.

<select class="select manufaturers-module-list" id="ctl00_ctl02_manufacturers" onchange="java script:setTimeout('__doPostBack(\'ctl00$ctl02$manufacturers\',\'\')', 0)" name="ctl00$ctl02$manufacturers">
<option value="Select...">Manufacturer Select</option>