Redesign for jewelry website

mode beads

We are a large company who imports and manufactures Czech beads, Crystals, and all various forms of beads, and glass. With over 30,000 products, we are a large wholesaler , and sell our beads in all 50 continental united states, and many international cities.

We currently have a wholesale website, which targets bead stores, large designers, and designers who would like to purchase $100-300 or more worth of beads, crystals, and gems.

Our website is one where log-in is requires to see prices, and log-in is provided to those who are recognized as registered legal businesses, and/or reliable customers.

Navigation bar containing:

On sale
New Products
Best Seller
Learning Center
News
Mode Blog
Our Company
Community
Contact Us

A top header for the shopping cart should contain the standard links such as:

Log-in
Register
My Account
View Cart
FAQ
Customer Service

We would like a nice list of categories which will help the customer identify what type of product they want. Take a look at our site, and some of the provided for ideas.

We need a newsletter sign-up bloc
Live Chat
Deal of the day
Banner for our ads, (like free shipping)
Facebook, twitter, our blog, youtube links

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The home page should have a news section, which scrolls, and a nice space for text welcoming the visitor. In addition, we want that the front page should communicate to the new visitor that while we are a wholesale only site, we might be able to sell to them if their order is more than $150 on average...

The home page should display Popular products, featured products, etc. Again creativity is the name of the game. We want the site attractive, but most important clean!!!! We don't want too many distractions, and it must be easy to visualize, with pleasant colors, bars, and layout.

The bottom of the page should have a list of links separated in columns, like:

CUSTOMER SERVICE

* Contact Us
* FAQ
* Shipping Info
* Returns
* Ordering Info
* Order Status

* Contact Us
* FAQ
* Shipping Info
* Returns
* Ordering Info
* Order Status
*

COMPANY INFO

* About Us
* Mode Beads News
* Jobs
* Our Guarantee
* Privacy Policy

SITE INFO

* Site Search FAQ
* Site Map
* Secure Ordering
* Login FAQ
COMMUNITY

* Mode Blog
* Customer Reviews
* Facebook, MySpace, Twitter
* YouTube
* Link to Us

This is what we can think of, the more creative you get, the more you will have our attention and win the contest.

http://www.modebeads.com

We are scrapping this site completely, but you may select to use categories, text, or images and products from our website.

http://www.firemountaingems.com/
http://www.beadmasterusa.com/
http://www.artbeads.com/
those are competing websites, we don't like their layout necessarily...