OCUK's new website

The-Plethora · 26 Oct 2015 at 14:47

I had a good chance to test this as I was pricing some stuff up over the weekend and only ordered today, these were the issues I found...

1. The delivery address had defaulted to my billing address and I usually choose work as someone will be in, luckily I checked.

2. Some items do not appear to be categorised correctly. I was looking at a lian li case but couldn't find it again. I removed the category of aluminium cases from alongside the other category of lian li I selected and it showed up but it is an aluminium case.

Overall I don't mind the colour scheme but feel it is better having the top bar stuff on th left hand side as it was previously, also the buttons are too big, I preferred the expanding categories and sub categories.

Evil-I · 26 Oct 2015 at 15:14

Personally it seems a step backwards...

Much harder to get to what I want quickly.

E-I

faceman123 · 26 Oct 2015 at 16:04

It's designed for alienware crowd. Looks so bad and harder to find things. I don't enjoy browsing it

subbytna · 26 Oct 2015 at 16:33

Have to agree, it's harder to find things. Not enjoyable to browse to what you're looking for.

snips86x · 26 Oct 2015 at 16:39

I like it, nice upgrade

chippy08 · 26 Oct 2015 at 16:59

Tried to order new motherboard but couldnt get to payment so orded from elsewhere. Dont
Ike the new site theres too much going in your face on each page much prefer the old site.

nosluom · 26 Oct 2015 at 17:07

Do not like the new website one bit! It's so cluttered with too many buttons and stuff. Why oh why do companies feel the need to change the website when the old one worked and everyone liked it. I just don't get it! It doesn't increase sales, it just annoys customers and if anything sends them elsewhere

Gibbo · 26 Oct 2015 at 17:36

zakblood said:
awful tbh, bring back the old one, looked a lot better imo

deals didn't last long either,

250GB 850 EVO SSD 2.5 SATA 6Gbps 32 Layer 3D V-NAND Solid State Drive *PROMO 1 PER CUSTOMER*

and sold out straight away "apparently this item is not available anymore" yea you mean it was only for the first 10, what a con

Nope there was 60 units.

Gibbo · 26 Oct 2015 at 17:40

nosluom said:
Do not like the new website one bit! It's so cluttered with too many buttons and stuff. Why oh why do companies feel the need to change the website when the old one worked and everyone liked it. I just don't get it! It doesn't increase sales, it just annoys customers and if anything sends them elsewhere

It does increase sales, OcUK had outgrown the capabilities of the old website, an upgrade was required which gives us a lot more power/ability that you the customer can not directly see.

As a result business is off to a good start.

I've added some sizing categories in storage to make finding SSD/HDD easier.

Homepage design / polishing can easily happen and I am sure some changes will be made to make it look less busy but on a whole the site was updated for the technical ability it has, not because the old one was looking bad.

Over the next coming days/weeks tweaks and polishing will be done, we will get it there for sure.

-Mike- · 26 Oct 2015 at 18:11

spoffle said:
No it wasn't

You're that defensive over it, you sure you don't have anything to do with it?

Scooby_WR1 · 26 Oct 2015 at 18:14

I don't understand all the hate for the new site, yes the home page has got a lot going on but i find it just as easy to browse if not easier.

Phil2000 · 26 Oct 2015 at 18:49

sorry but i just don't like it, feels like it's gonna make my eyes bleed.

keyser · 26 Oct 2015 at 18:51

argh change

GDL · 26 Oct 2015 at 18:55

Change is good, but I'm undecided at the moment.

The mouse over effect appears to be used on everything, and you're bombarded with information in such small spaces that it's hard to see what you want to rather than what's shoved in your face.

I'm not seeing this as a professional bit of work, more like a how many effects can we get on a single site. Sometimes, static is good guys.

RichardH754 · 26 Oct 2015 at 19:05

Not keen on the new website, its too hard to find stuff

xdcx · 26 Oct 2015 at 19:41

Gibbo said:
Nope there was 60 units.

So why is it still the first item on your front page? I sent the link to a colleague at 15:45 today because he was going to buy after I told him the price..... Needless to say, he wasn't bothered it was sold out, what he thought was stupid and annoying was the "apparently, this product is not available anymore".

APPARENTLY.

What was everyone saying about it not being "professional"? Stop trying to be funny and just say it's out of stock and remove it from your front page after 4 hours as well.... At it!

setter · 26 Oct 2015 at 19:47

Only logged onto the new site just now, gotta say i quite like it.

Kyiami · 26 Oct 2015 at 19:53

So uncomfortable to use

GAM8LE · 26 Oct 2015 at 19:54

Just bought something off OCUK and there was a glitch:

I changed delivery address and then on the final confirmation screen it showed my billing address as delivery so I had to change it again

snappyfish · 26 Oct 2015 at 20:53

Gibbo said:
It does increase sales, OcUK had outgrown the capabilities of the old website, an upgrade was required which gives us a lot more power/ability that you the customer can not directly see.

As a result business is off to a good start.

I've added some sizing categories in storage to make finding SSD/HDD easier.

Homepage design / polishing can easily happen and I am sure some changes will be made to make it look less busy but on a whole the site was updated for the technical ability it has, not because the old one was looking bad.

Over the next coming days/weeks tweaks and polishing will be done, we will get it there for sure.

That makes sense. Looks like a Magento theme? Should have loads of back end modules.

This forum is so active that you can take all the ideas and quickly get a majority vote on what is best.