@Bel_Je_Designs
Hi Maha, I’m honoured you would ask for my advice.


I think people could get lost either way, so you have to do what will work for you.Just like in a department store you might see a section that is all mattresses, or all lamps, but then you have little room settings that take different products and make them into a collection for a specific room. Think of how you want to setup your store, your products. There isn’t any right or wrong way.
You have collections on your Profile home page. People can see at a glance where they want to go.
I started out with just a few products like you. But as time went on there were more and more. I used categories, but often would forget that if there wasn’t an image for the category, none of the products would be seen by the customers.
Then Zazzle brought in Collections. At the time and until this month I was creating products and then trying to figure out how to arrange them into Collections. This month I’m doing a lot of store maintenance despite all the 404 messages etc that are going on.
So I have sat down and came up with some creative names for collections. Like “For Bold, Courageous Adventurers” and I am going to make designs specifically for a certain collection.
I had thought a collection had to be like the same design on different products. But when we go to the home page of Zazzle they have different products with completely different designs but they work as a collection. It’s kind of like putting an outfit together. They go together, but your purse doesn’t necessarily have the pattern on it that the dress does.
I’m liking Collections better because Categories are only for products from one store, whereas collections can have products from many stores. I like that about them.
Sure, you can look at my store, but please keep in mind I’m spring cleaning it. I still have collections that are product specific, but I will be changing that. For example you will see my collection ‘Love Is’. It’s a set of posters - all the same but in different colors. I will be changing that to other titles and each color will go into the title that fits it best. So the posters won’t be together until a customer is at the product page and the other colorways will show up.
You can visit anyone’s store that has posted on this forum by clicking on their name in their post and then on the page that opens up you will see their Forum Name and just under that is a link to the name they use on Zazzle. Just click on that link and you are at their Profile Page on Zazzle.
Yours looks like this:
Bel_Je_Designs
Maha Aldoori on Zazzle
I’ve been here since 2008 so if you want to chat just message me.