{"id":82,"date":"2012-11-15T14:47:40","date_gmt":"2012-11-15T14:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/killervideostore.com\/blog\/?p=82"},"modified":"2012-11-16T04:37:17","modified_gmt":"2012-11-16T04:37:17","slug":"simplifying-the-store-simple-is-better-than-slick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.killervideostore.com\/blog\/2012\/simplifying-the-store-simple-is-better-than-slick\/","title":{"rendered":"Simplifying the Store &#8211; simple is better than slick."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi,<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve come to the store in the recent past, you&#8217;ve probably noticed that our layout has changed a lot. We went from very basic to slick, and now we are back to simple &#8211; with a few additions.<\/p>\n<h3>Simple Sells &#038; Slick Sucks<\/h3>\n<p>What we found with the ultra slick layout, was that it just confused people. It looked great, but the layout got in the way of making the site usable and I got constant messages from people try to find courses. The lesson in this, is to always lean towards simple layouts and leave the high-end design to concept sites. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>If you want pizazz, look to using a nice set of icons, nice photos or even great looking video, rather than distracting your site visitors with heavy design. For example, check out our new simplified thank-you page:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/killervideostore.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/video-store-thank-you-page.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/killervideostore.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/video-store-thank-you-page-300x290.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"video-store-thank-you-page\" width=\"300\" height=\"290\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-84\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.killervideostore.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/video-store-thank-you-page-300x290.png 300w, http:\/\/www.killervideostore.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/video-store-thank-you-page-1024x992.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.killervideostore.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/video-store-thank-you-page-309x300.png 309w, http:\/\/www.killervideostore.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/video-store-thank-you-page.png 1217w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks for reading,<\/p>\n<p>Stefan Mischook<br \/>\nkillerSites.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, If you&#8217;ve come to the store in the recent past, you&#8217;ve probably noticed that our layout has changed a lot. We went from very basic to slick, and now we are back to simple &#8211; with a few additions. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.killervideostore.com\/blog\/2012\/simplifying-the-store-simple-is-better-than-slick\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.killervideostore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.killervideostore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.killervideostore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.killervideostore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.killervideostore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.killervideostore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93,"href":"http:\/\/www.killervideostore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions\/93"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.killervideostore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.killervideostore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.killervideostore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}