thread Re: Greetings in Community Corner

Greetings

Richard-drake — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 14:42:36 GMT

Hello everyone,

I'm new to Square and have recently made a site where I sell handmade Canes/Walking sticks, Staffs, Wands, and Handfasting Cords, and I'm looking to find ways to improve my site in order to attract people to buy them.

the sits address is: drakes-craft-workshop.square.site

This is the first selling site I have made and I know that it's not the best, which is why I'm looking to get some advice on ways to improve it, I've only every sold a few little things on E-Bay before so have no experience about how to run a website and make it look good enough to get customers, so any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.

Kind Regards

Richard Drake

Re: Greetings

Sam_400º — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 18:21:43 GMT

Hey Richard - good to see you in the community!

Congratulations on getting your website all set up and running. I do find it a little hard to read with the colour choices and font - this is even when I’m wearing my glasses!

I love the levels of customisation you’ve gone into but I’m actually unable to read the item descriptions on a 15” screen so think with most people looking on their phones these days they may struggle even more.

I actually ended up copying and pasting your descriptions for a couple of items into word to be able to read them - you’ve written some great descriptions and have all the info I’d want before ordering in there so that’s really going to help with your search optimisation too.

Re: Greetings

Richard-drake — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 18:51:43 GMT

Hi Sam,

Thank you for your feedback, I was thinking that it was a bit hard toy read the descriptions, and I have tried to change the font size for them but It doesn't seem to have worked out at all, as there isn't an option when writing the description to change the font size, even I have difficulty reading the descriptions, and I'm on a 24" screen. do you know how I can change to font size in the descriptions for each item?

Re: Greetings

Breffni — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 08:58:14 GMT

Hi @Richard-drake and welcome 🙂

We love to see new faces here on the Community.

Building websites is not the easiest but I think you've done an amazing job! I do agree with Sam, I had a brief look yesterday and my only note was that I found myself squinting a bit at the font and colours.

You can find the steps to customise and change font sizes here.

There are more tips for customisation here.

Some other tips we have would be:

Update regularly: Keep your website content fresh with blog-style Stories to give visitors a reason to come back.
Use your social networks: Post your site to Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or other social networks whenever you update your content.
Promote your site: Add a link to your email signature, and include a link to your site when you post to forums or comment on articles.
Start an email newsletter: Use newsletter sign-up pop-ups on your site as a tool to bring visitors back to your website and continue email promotions with email marketing.
Get reciprocal links: Swap links with other websites that have a similar audience to drive free, qualified traffic. Join our Seller Community to get connected with other sellers who also use Square Online.

I hope this helps - if you have any questions at all just let us know here!

Re: Greetings

Sam_400º — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 18:04:25 GMT

I think it’s got more to do with font and colour than it has the size.

Could you use the colour in spot places instead, so it keeps your brand colour there but improves readability?

I did use my brand font on mine for a while but have removed it for readability, it was fine for most but not a web friendly for for anyone with any vision difficulties.