Old and new websites

I've been wanting to add a shopping cart for fabrics and books to my website for a while now.  My site has been hosted by 1&1 for over eighteen months, but when I tried to upgrade to a site with a shopping cart, I started to realise a) how difficult it was to select the right kind of package from their site, which doesn't show you what you are buying until you've bought it, b) just how clunky some of their website tools are (e.g. uploading photos, copying text accross etc.)  So I have decided to move across to a Wix site and spent a few hours this morning building my site there.  It was MUCH quicker than working on the 1&1 hosted site.  I really used to find editing the 1&1 site a drag because it took so long to do anything!

Both sites will be up for a day or two - the old one at www.susanbriscoe.com and the new one at Wix -  http://susanbriscoe1.wix.com/susanbriscoe

The screenshot at the top of this post is the new site and the one below is the old.

It will be a while before I can get the fabric pages and shopping cart features sorted out (much photographing of fabrics is required first) but I'd like to know what people think.  BTW, the Wix logos will disappear off the new site once I've transferred the web domains and upgraded it a little.

New website

My new website went live a couple of days ahead of schedule.  The site addresses www.susanbriscoe.co.uk and www.susanbriscoe.com are still the same, and I have added the .org.uk domain name as well.

I will be including all the talk and workshop booking information from my old site, but for the time being there isn't any online pattern ordering - I'm looking at getting my patterns into downloadable pdf formats, probably using an online pattern website to sell the patterns, but staying with printed patterns for quilt shows etc.  That way, you won't have to wait to order a pattern if I'm unable to send one out because I'm away at a show etc.

Kits - I'm redirecting to my kits on the Euro Japan Links website rather than selling the show kits online.  When I make kits, they are often in very limited quantities as I rarely buy more than 11 - 12 metres of any fabric.  I am designing some new kits combining recycled and vintage kimono fabrics, so those will be listed once I've got them done, but they will be limited editions of around 20 - 30 kits, depending on the fabric cuts included (a recycled kimono only gives certain repeatable lengths and widths).

There will be more photos, more quilts in the galleries and I am planning to add a proper biography once I've gone through my records re dates of shows etc. :-)  This blog will be staying exactly where it is.

Any other suggestions?