I'm wondering whether nopcommerce.com is planning on a whole theme update. Although I think the current design is neat and efficient, it's a little bit out-dated. At the end of day, when we / customer following the link "powered by no nopcommerce" to official site, this is the first impression we get about this platform.
Comparing with all popular platform, we would like to see following changes for the website:
1. Better visual design of the site. This includes more pleasant colour choice, more appealing picture and better modern text (the current text size is too small for reading for most of people I guess. I normally have to zoom 125% when visit the website. Also it would be good if you can switch to some modern Google fonts), better layout for organized content. I cannot emphasize how important it is for the first impression. We know the content is important. However, to get it delivered, it has to well organized and well presented.
2. Better home page. With slide for successful customer story, featured article or release, featured partner, featured extension. More dynamic content (right now only the release part of home page is dynamic).
3. It would be nice to see NC team start a blog and use it as a communication way to keep in touch with community and customers. I know we have forum. But the blog is different. It’s more official and has better presentation about content (better layout, with picture, even video). We can have discussion for specific article. And the most important thing, you can use the blog article to update your content regularly (like put on the home page), or use it as landing page for email marketing.