Internet Retailer’s Retail Web Design Guide Reveals Key Design Features of the Top 500

Does a certain retail web site support video? Does it offer some form of personalization? What kind of payment capabilities does it have? What kind of gift registry does support? Does it offer such rich media as zoom and product rotation. Does it have advanced site search such as guided navigation? The Internet Retailer Retail Web Design Guide analyzes two dozen core features and functions (63 in all) and reports on which ones are supported by each of America’s Top 500 e-retailer’s, as ranked by the Internet Retailer Top 500 Guide. This analysis of the features and functions of the web sites that control two-thirds of the e-retail market provides readers with much of what they need to know about a competitor’s web site, so far as its design and usability is concerned. By looking at your competitors through this penetrating lens and you will quickly realized who’s a serious competitor on the web and who is not. You’ll understand who the leaders are in possessing the most important features and function—those that spell excellence in an online retailer’s web site. This analysis alone justifies many times over the $69 price of this 272-page Guide.

Retail Web Design Guides Boasts 14 Case Studies to Learn From

The 2010 Internet Retailer Retail Web Design Guide contains 14 two-page case studies about how top e-retailers enhanced their web business by redesigning their sites to achieve greater navigability, excellent product searches and better product presentations, by a vastly improved check-out process. Design and usability of a web site holds the key to e-retailing performance and growth. The market is your to exploit, but if you don’t have among the best designed and function retail web site, your competitors will fast be exploiting you by taking away market share. There are ways you can measure yourself against the leaders in the market, but the best way is by comparing the design and functionality of your site and those of your competitors. And the best way to do that is by purchasing a Guide that contains concise and informative lessons from top retailers who decided to excel in web design.

Designing Great Sites Requires Advice From Pros, and This Guide Has It

Few aspects of a retail web site depend more heavily on outside expertise than design and usability. Internet Retailer knows who these experts are, and it asked six of them to pen “how-to” articles on some aspect of web site design for the 2010 Internet Retailer Retail Web Design Guide. Think of it: six top designers provide the reader with their expertise in a variety of specialties of web design. You couldn’t duplicate this level of design intelligence for 10 times the price of this Guide. Following their practical tips you can maximize your site’s ROI, reduce its abandon rate, and increase its conversions. Conversions are where’s it’s at, and nothing improves conversion fast than improved design and functionality.

What New Web Design Features Are Capturing the Eye of E-Retailers

The 2010 Edition of the Guide to Retail Web Site Design & Usability provides readers with the results of a recently completed survey of e-retailers about the web design features they consider the latest and greatest. To keep abreast of the leaders in e-retailing, you need to know what others in your business are thinking when it comes to web design. Otherwise, you may be very disappointed if you spend a lot of work adding a new feature to your web site only to learn that most e-retailers are looking at another feature much more than the one your hopes are riding. Find out what new design features e-retailers believe will produce the fastest return on their investment.

When It Comes to Retail Web Design The Right Designer Means Everything

E-Retailers rely on many outside vendors for help in building or maintaining various aspects of their web business. But in no area of e-retailing is the selection of a third-party solution provider more critical than in web design. No two web design firms are the same and all of them specialize in some area of e-commerce and knowing their strengths and weaknesses is important to making the right vendor choice. The Guide to Retail Web Design and Usability profiles, client details and contact information on the170 web site design solutions providers that serve the e-commerce industry.

Before You Redesign Your Retail Site Be Sure to Follow a Complete Checklist

This is where Internet Retail possess some inside information. For more than a year, we have studied, planned and executed the complete redesign of our 10-year-old web site. With the help of experts in the field, we developed a comprehensive checklist of things to do and when to do them in redesigning your web site. That checklist is included in the Guide to Retail Web Design & Usability and it can be a wonderful road map to follow when redesigning your site.