Graphic Design Tips for the Online Seller.

If you sell online via one of the popular selling venues, i.e. eBay, Yahoo, OverStock or even iOffer. You may have a need for a graphic designer to help you build a credible store front.

Online Sellers can use graphic designers for;

• Building their eBay stores.


• Building their eBay about me pages.


• Building their Yahoo store fronts.


• Building their OverStock store fronts.


• Building their auction templates.


• Building their Blogs.


• Building their web sites.

Specific task that designers can provide;

• Create better navigation then provided by selling venue templates


• Better product placement. Cross selling and linking and referring


• Use of advanced image techniques
  - rotating photos
  - roll over enlargements
  - using anchor text and alt, title, & caption HTML tags


• Improve page meta tag usage and other SEO advances


• Stream line the code used to create your store

As an online seller you may have a need for any and all of the above services. Well where do you start. James Maguire of eCommerce Guide.com has written a very interesting article that answers some of the questions that an online seller faces when choosing a good graphic designer. You can read his article Yahoo Storefront Design Tips - Part 1.

While this article address Yahoo store fronts I think that it provides information that can be used by any online seller looking for a graphics design company to help them give their online sells ventures a more professional look and feel.

One last idea that a graphics designer can help an online seller with is to give all of their various and fragmented sells efforts on different selling venues a common look and feel. Which will help in branding.

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graphic design, online sales, selling, Yahoo, eBay, iOffer, auctions