Yahoo! Store Design & Development

Let your visitors compare any number of products side by side - close more sales!

Change the checkout pages to match the look and feel of the rest of your store. Increase shopper confidence and close more sales. Read more...

Show relevant questions and answers on each product page and let visitors submit additional questions about any product right from the product page.

One of our most popular add-ons. Let your customers post reviews or ratings of your store's products. Fully functional, self-maintaining (no need to receive the reviews and post them yourself to your store). Works seemlessly with any editor-based Yahoo! Store (requires php/mysql-enabled web hosting such as Yahoo! Merchant Solutions). (www.sportsunlimitedinc.com)

Allows store visitors to access complete item detail information (image, price, description, etc) by hovering the mouse over the product thumbnails on section pages without actually leaving the section page. Increase conversion and add sophistication to your site.

Automatically break up large sections into multiple pages without having to rearrange the items in any way. Dramatically improves the load time of large sections. (www.gallerydirectart.com)

Our Smart Breadcrumbs follow the visitor, so if a page is part of more than one section, the breadcrumbs will still be correct!

Allows you to upload any number of images with their associated destination URLs and it rotates the images at a configurable interval. Random rotation, image change upon page refresh, advance controls, etc. available.

Show a different customer testimonial each time a page loads. Showing a different testimonial on each page visit is a great trust-building element. Testimonials show that your store has actual customers, and that those customers are happy with the service or products they received. (www.gallerydirectart.com or right here at www.ytimes.info)

Show thumbnails and hyperlinks to the most recently viewed items much like eBay does it.

Display the contents of the shopping cart on all the pages (like in this store). Reduce the risk that your customers put something in their shopping cart and forget to check out. Please note, that because of security issues, the running shopping cart does not work with a "Single Page Checkout".

An extension of the Cross Sell feature. Not only shows the related products but also allows the visitor to check-mark the related products and add them all to the shopping cart with a single click on the "Order" button.

Show your customers how much they will save (for items with sale prices) either as a dollar amount or as a percentage (or both.) (www.efunctional.com)

For stores that offer quantity discount pricing, this feature reformats the price into vertical or horizontal tables. (www.founderstelecom.com)

Similar to the regular best sellers but here you can set up a pool of items to feature, and only a portion of them (also specified by you) are shown at random.

Allows you to edit any page through its link in the store editor. You don't actually have to go to a page and wait until it loads before you can hit Edit to make changes to it. Save tons of time!

This feature allows you to create a special section that will include all on-sale items (those with a sale price) completely automatically. No need to copy on-sale items, they appear in the clearance page as soon as a sale price is entered and disappear from the clearance page if the sale price is removed (www.distinctionsplus.com)

An automatic "shop by price" page. You define the price range (from $x to $y) and the items that fall within the range automatically appear in this special section without having to copy them. (www.knifeart.com)

Usually located at the right of the home page as an additional column, best sellers let you highlight products. This is in addition to the built-in "Specials" feature. (www.notetools.com)

Let visitors to your site email their friends interesting products they find in your store. (Requires php-enabled web hosting such as Yahoo! Merchant Solutions.) (www.antiquejewelrymall.com)

This features gives direct, quicker access to the first level sub-sections in your store by showing a menu of the sub-sections when the mouse hovers over the navigation buttons.

The above list is by no means complete; it simply represents some of the more popular features we offer. Contact us if you need any other feature or functionality not on this list. For an ever growing list of Yahoo! stores we have designed, redesigned, or enhanced, please visit our portfolio page.

Y-Times and William Lewis Web Development have jointly developed a number of template-based solutions that automatically optimizes any store for the search engines. For more information on these, please contact Bill Leskinen of William Lewis Web Development at 763.546.2024 or wm@wmlewis.com.