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		<title>Brilliant Examples of Ecommerce Web Designs</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 17:01:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luci Smethurst</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Web Design]]></category>
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When designing ecommerce websites first and foremost consideration must be usability, and then design. Or, if you prefer, design with usability in mind.
I&#8217;ve collected (so far) 10 examples of what I think are great ecommerce web designs from across the board. In no particular order:
Paul Frank
Bright, colourful and straight away in-your-face (but in a good [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Essential E-Commerce Developer Tools</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 10:55:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Kent</dc:creator>
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When developing an e-commerce website, whether you are using Magento or creating a completely bespoke system or even if you are simply making a php-based website, you are always in need of the right tools. When you have the right tools you can do the job better, faster and stronger&#8230;maybe not stronger but you get [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dynamic Retrieval Rates for Shipping</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:02:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Moss</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[E-Commerce Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Magento]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Magento Tutorials]]></category>

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Estimating shipping rates can be a long and intimidating process as you attempt to make sure every shipping possibility is covered. By far the best thing to do in my opinion is to call official shipping rates from the actual companies themselves. Magento has this feature built in, so why not use it if it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>User Marketplaces &#8211; The New Ecommerce</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 08:14:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Moss</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Amazon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[E-Commerce Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ebay]]></category>

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For a while now, ecommerce has moved further and further towards marketplace sites, where it&#8217;s not just the website selling goods to users, but users selling goods to users through the website. The most well known example of an online marketplace is Ebay, where transactions are purely user to user. Sites such as Amazon and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ecommerce v3.0</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 13:51:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Moss</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[E-Commerce Design]]></category>

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With a brand new design, e-commercewebdesign.co.uk has relaunched for the third time in an effort to further cement itself as the UK&#8217;s top e-commerce web design company. The new design is more in line with other sites owned by the Crear Group, promoting clean, detailed design with usability.
An update to our e-commerce portfolio, as well [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reflecting on Magento</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2009 10:33:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Moss</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[E-Commerce Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Magento]]></category>

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The last couple of weeks I have been building an e-commerce website using open source software Magento. The most important factor about Magento is the ability to change absolutely anything in the code to suit your own requirements meaning anything is possible.

The one problem with this is the well-known steep learning curve that comes along [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Rise and Rise of Paypal</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 11:09:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Moss</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[E-Commerce Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ebay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ecommerce web design]]></category>
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For pretty much any e-commerce web design company setting up a new shop, the inclusion of PayPal is now considered highly important. PayPal was formed in March 2000 and has since achieved hug commercial success, largely attributed to its co-operation with eBay, which bought the firm in 2002. The UK alone is responsible for 20 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ecommerce Diversification</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:31:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Moss</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[E-Commerce Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ecommerce diversification]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ecommerce web design]]></category>

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High street stores and supermarkets alike have been diversifying their product ranges for years, it&#8217;s all part of traditional commercial growth, and it&#8217;s clear that ecommerce web design companies will follow a similar ethos. The prime example, as usual, is Amazon&#8217;s diverse selection of products which differ greatly from the bookshop the store first set [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review Comments</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 11:22:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Moss</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[E-Commerce Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[amazon vine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[comments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ecommerce customer reviews]]></category>

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A relatively new feature of product reviews on ecommerce websites is the ability for other users to make comments on a particular review, similar to how blog comments follow a post. Not only does this encourage debates regarding the quality of a product, but it also allows people to show other sides of the arguement. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Video E-commerce</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 09:24:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Bavington</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[E-Commerce Design]]></category>
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An increasingly popular feature of ecommerce web design is to include videos on the product page to give users and shoppers a more interactive experience. It certainly provides a useful outlet for websites selling DVD&#8217;s, videogames and other similar media where trailers and how-to guides provide a more in-depth showcase of what a product can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ecommerce Customer Reviews</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 09:57:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Moss</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[E-Commerce Design]]></category>
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A useful feature of an e-commerce shop and a ever-present standard of ecommerce web design is the inclusion of customer reviews on a product page. Speaking personally, if I&#8217;m about to buy an album, DVD or book, I find my decision to buy the book greatly influenced by how good the customer reviews for it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>E-commerce Usability &#8211; Add to Cart Buttons</title>
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		<comments>http://www.e-commercewebdesign.co.uk/blog/e-commerce-design/e-commerce-usability-add-to-cart-buttons.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2008 12:34:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Moss</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[E-Commerce Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shop Usability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[add to cart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[button]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[e-commerce web design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[usability]]></category>

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In order to achieve a greater rate of conversions, a bold and clear &#8216;add to cart button&#8217; should be added to each product page and it should be made to stand out from the rest of the content so that it is easy to locate for any shopper. Use reds, blues and images to display [...]]]></description>
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		<title>E-commerce Usability &#8211; Refined Searches</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2008 21:49:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Moss</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[E-Commerce Design]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[e-commerce usability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[e-commerce web design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[search]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[zavvi]]></category>

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As previously explained, as site search function is a must for any e-commerce website as it allows users to find what they&#8217;re looking for. However it is not unusual to be flooded by a huge number of search results in such an instance, so an option to narrow the criteria of a search is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>E-commerce Usability &#8211; Headlines &amp; Headings</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 14:52:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Moss</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[E-Commerce Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shop Usability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Web Design]]></category>

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There&#8217;s nothing worse in an e-commerce shop than to be a customer who doesn&#8217;t realise which part of the shop they&#8217;re viewing. It should always be made clear at the top of the page, using breadrumb navigation to shop how deep into the shop they have gone. Doing this is alos a great way of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How important is the design of my shop?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 16:09:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Bavington</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[E-Commerce Design]]></category>
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One of the most frequently asked questions that we are asked by customers, is; Why is the design of my shop so important? Surely if the prices are right and the navigation works, why do I need a fancy design?
There isn&#8217;t a quick and simple answer to this question, but in our opinion you need [...]]]></description>
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