Competition among ecommerce solutions is a blessing to merchants, especially new ones. Because of competition, many shopping cart firms have started offering goodies for free. This goodies include, free ecommerce templates, free live chat software and content sliders.
Many new merchants are still apprehensive about using free ecommerce templates. I can hardly blame them. When shopping cart solutions first started offering template designs for free, they looked like they were designed by the same octopus that kept picking the winning teams for the 2010 World Cup Finals.
Since then, designs of free ecommerce templates have improved quite a bit with the trend moving towards clean and simple designs. More color variations are now available and some newer designs are thematic so merchants need not think that hard about which templates to choose.
But how a page looks does not solely depend on free ecommerce templates alone. There are other elements available for free that can also contribute to a page's visual aesthetics and purpose.
One such element is the content slider. We all know that images help draw attention and help make a page more 'sticky'. If a page is more sticky then perhaps visitors will tend to remain longer and have a look around. And what can be better than attractive images if not attractive moving images. As gimmicky as it sounds, a combination of moving images combined with functional or purposeful content can pique the interest of a visitor. Read Full Story
Many new merchants are still apprehensive about using free ecommerce templates. I can hardly blame them. When shopping cart solutions first started offering template designs for free, they looked like they were designed by the same octopus that kept picking the winning teams for the 2010 World Cup Finals.
Since then, designs of free ecommerce templates have improved quite a bit with the trend moving towards clean and simple designs. More color variations are now available and some newer designs are thematic so merchants need not think that hard about which templates to choose.
But how a page looks does not solely depend on free ecommerce templates alone. There are other elements available for free that can also contribute to a page's visual aesthetics and purpose.
One such element is the content slider. We all know that images help draw attention and help make a page more 'sticky'. If a page is more sticky then perhaps visitors will tend to remain longer and have a look around. And what can be better than attractive images if not attractive moving images. As gimmicky as it sounds, a combination of moving images combined with functional or purposeful content can pique the interest of a visitor. Read Full Story
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