Car sales site

**Cloud** · 02 February 2013, 01:17 PM

I had a customer approach me a while back to create a website for his car sales business, at first I thought of doing it in either wordpress or opencart but the client was a little apprehensive about a cms so took a while to work out and instead I did a static site linked to autotrader. Then anotherclient asked for a site for the same thing and I decided to use xara plus ecwid shopping cart, and with some css codes (actually a long list) managed to create the site so that the client can make changes to the 'shopping cart' without affecting the website.

http://www.peterjamescarsales.com

The client has started adding the cars, unfortunately the image file sizes are a little large so could be slow for you.

**gwpriester** · 02 February 2013, 05:53 PM

Isn't she the lady who does live chat on your printing website?

I think the site is very classy. You are a really good designer who knows how to get drama from a clean website with lots of white space.

**Cloud** · 02 February 2013, 06:43 PM

Thanks Gary, that's what we call stock photo syndrome, you often find images magically moving around.

**pauland** · 02 February 2013, 07:21 PM

Great job on the site.

**Cloud** · 02 February 2013, 07:24 PM

Thanks, I need to have a word with the client, I mentioned to upload 500px sized images as a maximum but need to get it through to him. Ecwid resizes the images and accepts images upto I think 4mb in size so if a client can upload a massive photo they will.

**TXAlba** · 03 February 2013, 06:58 PM

Very good example of what can be done

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**Advocate** · 08 February 2013, 01:39 AM

Perhaps the British version is different, in the U.S. it would be "Financing available."

1 - Change "Range" to "range."
2 - Change "Full details" to "full details."
3 - Change "continues" to "continuous."
4 - 100's irks me, it should be "hundreds," but I understand that the lines of apostrophe use are becoming increasingly blurred.

Put a period after "UK," or put the word "and" after the comma.

"our team is on hand," not "our team are on hand." A team is considered a singular noun. Or you could say, "all members of our team are on hand," which makes it a little more personal.

Your text in the colored boxes ends with a period in two of the boxes, but not in the first box.

Change the copyright date to "2013." On the Contact page, please change "Piece of mind" to "Peace of mind"

That's all I have time to eyeball now.

You have a great eye for design, and I like the way the colors all harmonize without being absolute matches.

**Cloud** · 10 February 2013, 05:34 PM

Thanks for the comments, although I have to point out the certain terms have not translated well over to american english. I think by 'range' are you referring to the 'Used 4x4s We stock a large selection of 4x4s from Freelanders to Range Rovers' in which case the Range referred to is a model, the Range Rover, not a generic range-rover. 100's is the usual terms here in the UK. You are correct on Full details and that will be changed, as well as 'continues' and the periods, or as we call them here; full stops.

**Cloud** · 10 February 2013, 05:51 PM

I see which 'Range' you meant, that too will be sorted.

**diamondpacific** · 28 March 2013, 03:31 PM

It's a beautiful site, Skech. You've got a real talent for taking XWD to its full potential. When we're ready I'd value your opinion on our forthcoming in-house sites!

RDS
Diamond Pacific Media Group