30+ Awesome Online Shoes Stores: Best Practices and Showcase
Anastasia Miles
The internet is enormous and a big part of it is, online shopping and e-commerce. In this article we have written down best practices to run Online shoe stores and after that there is a showcase to inspire you. The main goal and purpose of every online and offline shop and store is To Sell. The online sale as an event is influenced by multiples factors, let us list the main ones:
- the attractiveness of the offer;
- the wide choice or
- the presence of the desired product or brand;
- the easiness of finding the desired product;
- the simplicity of the purchase process;
- special offers and discounts;
- the overall design and feeling of the online store;
- representation of 1st class, luxury, reliability, quality whatever.
There’s probably not much difference when creating the design for the flowers, cushions or shoes online store, those several principles outlined above always remain the same and can be applied to any industry. Still and if you want to stand out from your competition there’s something unique you have to offer to your potential customers.
The style of design of your new future online shop should be determined by the brands that will be presented on the website. If that’s a one brand website you can allow a splash page with the huge photos of the products and a few introductory words. If you’re selling the costly designer shoes your website should transmit a sense of luxury and style. If that’s a stock shoes site for whatever shoes in the world there are- you should make an emphasis on the variety of choice, and if that’s a low price that you can boast then you should create the banners featuring not the products but your pricing.
The showcase of some nice online stores below is meant to help the designers who are facing the task to create a unique, nifty design for the shoes store that Will Sell. Here you will see one brand websites with the huge images and get some tips on creating the “sale” banners that work. You will see websites with the “glamour” structure and websites with clean layout; you’ll learn to build both horizontal & vertical user friendly products navigation and combine the style of different brands into one. Let the force be with you and feel free to share your own designs or links to the other cool online shoe shops you were lucky to see and visit.
33 Online Shoes Stores Providing Great Selling Tips
Schuh
Shoebacca
Betts
ShoeShed
Shoes.co.uk
ShoeMetro
Converse
Urban Original
ShoeGuru
ShoePassion
Teva
Project Shoes
Habitat Shoe Boutique
Mivo Kids
Pro-Keds
The Shoe Buff
Shoegazr
DSW designer shoes
Viva La Diva
ShoeFest
Shudoo
Overstock Online Shoes
Braska
Cinti
Dr. Martens
Allen Edmonds
Asics
Brikenstock
Born Shoes
Hush Puppies
Naturalizer
Rockport
Shoes.com
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Pantofi
Posted 18 days ago 14These are the top shoes stores in my opinion too.
ShoeFan
Posted 113 days ago 13Good group. I would also add http://www.shoppingblitz.com. They have a lot of pair from Designers that are almost impossible to find else where. Good prices and a pretty wide selection.
ShoeFan
Posted 113 days ago 12ShoppingBlitz is my favorite. Great deals on a wide selection of shoes! http://www.shoppingblitz.com
Keith
Posted 143 days ago 11Hi ,
thanks for a great article and display of what is possible with a good design. As a copywriter and a bit of a grammar and spelling freak I could not help but notice that Birkenstock has been spelt wrong but the chosen sites all show a good balance of balancing design with the need to get those conversions and sell shoes. Here is an example of a site I have been working on Love your shoes
Thanks again,
Keith
2011 Fashion Men Shoes
Posted 159 days ago 10http://www.menshoes2u.com
Shoes are making delightful waves in the world of men’s fashion. So maybe finally, we understand the satisfaction experienced by women or maybe we never will.
Stivali UGG
Posted 196 days ago 9Baraka look great! I’ll got one by that website!
Nigel Linton
Posted 224 days ago 8I’m working on Cloggs.co.uk do you have any tips for me? I was thinking something simple like Shoes.co.uk.
reebokzigtech
Posted 262 days ago 7Reebok Zigtech Boys Shoesare the new series in our store, there are also other New Reebok shoes For 2011 for your references.
Ice
Posted 270 days ago 6high heeled
Thanks for the posting. Loads of excellent writing here. I wish I had found this site sooner
An impressive share, I just given this onto a colleague who was doing somewhat analysis on this.
Tim
Posted 546 days ago 5You have to look at these sites from an objective standpoint when placing them in a list titled “Awesome” online stores. If I came to either the Cinti or especially the Born site, I have absolutely no idea what they are selling. Or even what they do. Their homepages give me no idea. Probably clothing, but I’m not sure with the Cinti site. Looks like Born sells all kinds of clothing, aside from having to wait a while for their huge Flash to load. Shoes should be the first thing you notice on a shoe site.
Sarah Hicks
Posted 547 days ago 4This is perfect timing, I’m re-designing another shoe site right now for ShoeMall. Check em’ out. New look coming in Spring. Thanks for the inspiration!
Rene
Posted 547 days ago 3ShoeGuru is really great … minimalistic and simple as possible. Nice inspiration, thanks.
Daniel
Posted 547 days ago 2Hey, nice collection – but I had to mention http://www.mirapodo.de!
They have a nice and clear design and a clever presentation of their products, like when you hover a thumbnail from left to right there is a little “3D view”. Also, there is a perfect clear overview and way to filter the results for what you are searching for.
Cheers, Daniel
Erwin
Posted 547 days ago 1SHOE GURU still my favorite. Simple – but good!