Progress Update
Last Monday, I started what might become a weekly update (until I finish the site!) on the progress of my eCommerce site renovation. Thanks to the feedback from all of my volunteers, I have been able to finish the design of the site. Thank you to everyone who provided feedback. Even if I didn’t implement your suggestions, I appreciate them and gave them all due consideration. Once you see the finished site, you will see that your feedback did affect the final design. There was one suggestion that I tried to implement, but it ended up looking worse, so I went back on that one.
It certainly helps a lot to get some different viewpoints in the design phase, rather than waiting until the thing is up and running and getting questions from customers about where’s this and that.
I am now in the process of ripping apart the design. 
Now that I have a design finalized, I am cutting it up so that I can more easily make global changes to the site without having to edit each individual page. That will definitely be a good thing. If you were to browse the current site, you’d see three or four different designs across the pages, as not all pages got updated on previous redesigns. I plan to avoid that in the future!
I had other projects I had to complete this past week and over the weekend, so I did not get to spend as much time on the site as I had planned. But, I do think I have made significant progress since last week. Hopefully, by the end of this week, I can have the design shredded and put back together, and then I can get to work on the meat of the site.
Can’t wait to see your new site.
Design a good quality site is the easy part. Selling good quality customer services and good quality products are more critical.
I will keep eyes on your! Good luck!
Thanks for your help. Didn’t follow all of your advice, but did make some changes due to it.
Maybe I’ll do a series of blog posts after the launch to discuss the various decisions I made on the site.
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