While I'm glad you played around with the images a little bit (which now looks great, by the way! Nice editing job!), I think you still need to read over the list of common suggestions. I'm simply going to copy-paste the couple that are most applicable to you.
1: One thing that many storefronts lack is ample description of the storefront. This can be anything from a paragraph explaining the history of the company in question to a long biography of the company's Chief Executive Officer. While I do not recommend drowning potential customers in information, allowing customers to get a feel for the company as well as what it sells is imperative to running a successful storefront. A list of common informational sections is below.
- Letter from CEO/Manager/Owner
- More history of the company
- Why you should buy from the storefront
- FAQ
- Contact Information
- Eco-friendliness
...et cetera. Have fun describing your business to your customers! Another thing that I think can help your storefront is the way that you
organize these pieces. You have most of these things in place already, but they are spread out across the entirety of the storefront. Again, I would highly recommend condensing these sections, such as moving your history into the opening post, along with any questions that you end up receiving from your customers via your inquiry form.
2: You're already using the justify feature of the alignment tags, something many people don't even know about. I suggest taking it a step further and adding indentation to the first line of each paragraph. Do this by adding [
.tab] tags, used as follows:
[
.tab=# of pixels][/
.tab]First line of your paragraph, which then is indented by the number of pixels that you specified in the first tag. I recommend using an indentation of somewhere around 30 pixels. This appears to be about the standard indentation distance.
3: Lastly, as I mentioned in your suggestions section earlier today, you (and your customers!) might find it helpful to add a navigation abr to the top of each one of your posts. This will help unify your storefront and make finding different sections easier. Just remember to update your navigation bar every time you move a linked element!
Here's a basic explanation of how to do this, copied out of
Maltropia's excellent guide for storefront formatting:
But why the
#Hist? That's one of the things I find most useful. Normally the URL will say
p=12621915#p12621915 at the end, or something like that, but you can make the bit after the # link to a subsection of a post by using [anchor] tags. Basically, you take the text/header/picture you want to link to, drop a tag around it that says
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[anchor=yourtexthere]Whatever you're linking to[/anchor]
and then stick the anchor text after the #. The only tricky bit with this is that you won't obtain a post's URL until
after it's been posted, so anchors will only work once you've edited in the correct link.
Hopefully, these more detailed suggestions can help!