Really need to darken up the search box on stores please, heck even this title box...

[thecardattic]

Hi support,

The search box on the Ebid storefronts is nearly impossible to find, can you please darken the rectangle? We have had several customers email us and say they "click" the word search and cannot search for anything in our store, i.e. the box is so light and difficult to see, the potential customers think they need to click the word search. Even in this new post, seeing the box for title is nearly impossible. Any help asap would be greatly appreciated! If I am missing something that I can do on my end in editing my store, plmk, thank you, John thecardattic

[cornishmaid1961]

I agree. There are some areas of eBid that are just too subtle. Stronger outlines please eBid.

[thecardattic]

I agree. There are some areas of eBid that are just too subtle. Stronger outlines please eBid.

Exactly! Perfectly Put!!!

[HerMajesty]

AMEN. I have mentioned that before. Especially for older eyes, the pale to invisible boxes make them difficult or impossible to find and therefore use.

[astral276]

AMEN. I have mentioned that before. Especially for older eyes, the pale to invisible boxes make them difficult or impossible to find and therefore use.

Gazza is getting older. His bits will soon start to fail and then he will be where we are. Then he will appreciate our problems.

[thecardattic]

AMEN. I have mentioned that before. Especially for older eyes, the pale to invisible boxes make them difficult or impossible to find and therefore use.

so very very true! My God that is part of my problem, getting older, I just struggled AGAIN to log into the forum to reply to this post LOL but seriously, the boxes really do need darkened. As I said in my original post, the fact that potential customers have emailed me asking how to search my store is a REAL problem. None that I have responded to ended up ordering and I do not doubt that because most customers want to buy and be done, by the time I responded, they had moved onto other sites to make purchases. Easily one of the most upsetting things to me through the years of being in business on the internet is potential lost sales due to things not in my control like website layout in this example.

[astral276]

Plus, on narrow viewports the store search box disappears completely - hidden behind an icon.



I would have thought that the View and Sort Order boxes could be relegated to the dropdown and the search box put at the top and visible. I would put search facility at a higher priority than view/sort preferences.

[thecardattic]

So last night a potential customer actually sent my phone a text asking for my store link. I sent it to him and he said thanks and subsequently texted me back and said "I just bought this". Well IT WAS NOT FROM ME! I let him know and he said whoops! He could not see the search box for my own store and used the overall Ebid search box at the very top and accidentally didn't realize he was searching the entire Ebid site as opposed to just my inventory. Now mind you, I am glad he got SOMEONE else a sale but this really specifically shows the problem that all of us our discussing about the issue with the storefront search boxes. I got NO sale because of it last night. UGH GRRRRRRRRRRRR

[JanetB]

Are you all talking about this area?

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[hurryb4itsgone]

As Astral points out in post #7, on narrow views there is no store search box .... that might be even more of an issue. The only visible search box is for the site and not the store.