Good Home Page Design Principles
The home page design is the common entry point to your website. It should serve as a compelling window to your internal web content. We explore how to shape it for success. At Receptive Media, we like to draw inspiration from shopfront displays and emulate this in our home page design. A shopfront window is […]
A guide for eCommerce store images
Preparing product images for an eCommerce store is important business. It can help make or break a web design. Do it well with these helpful tips. Note: we would strongly recommend you hire a good professional photographer for product images but if you can’t here’s some helpful tips. Include all of the product edges All […]
Preparing for an eCommerce Website
You’ve decided to move ahead with an eCommerce website so you need to start preparing the content. Nobody knows your products better than you so with a little bit of help you should have no problems. Overall Site Structure The first thing to start thinking about is the overall site structure. An eCommerce website is […]
eCommerce Website Software
Selecting the right e-commerce software is an important decision and one you should not take lightly. You’re likely to be working with the same shopping cart software for years to come and factors like ease of use, maintenance and support should all be considered. We typically use Woocommerce and Magento to design and develop on. […]
Understaning PCI Compliance
Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI) What is it and do I need it? When you make a purchase through an eCommerce website and input your card details, your details should be protected and the funds should reach the intended recipient. By following certain protocols, the operator of the eCommerce website is responsible for […]
eCommerce and Convenience
Convenience… The big box supermarkets brought it to us with car parks for our bags, a one-stop shop with all we needed and they stacked products high and sold them to us cheap! eCommerce is the next step in evolution. The growth in smartphones has brought with it great opportunities for smaller sellers. An opportunity […]