PatinaStores.com was recently launched. The site features really cool items in a variety of different categories. Please take a look at the site and let me know what you think of the overall design, layout, navigation, visual appeal and structure. Also, if you have any suggestions, I would definitely appreciate them. Thanks, and have a great day!
With my slow internet connection it takes forever to load the page. Very nice layout tough. The site is also easy to navigate. I would suggest to have a nice offer on the first page so that´s the first thing a visitor will see when she enters the site. A visitor will always want to know "what´s in it for me?" The information about you could be moved to another page.
I've got adsl and it's still slow to load. I would expect that the load is in the images and these just need to be optimised in a tool like photoshop. It is nice looking. good luck
hey u got a nice website but as sarahk said u shoud refine the images in photoshop and make the top bar slides...inorder to load faster.and other thin is that the main text that first apears...try to justify the text and also the left navigation it needs some refine....
Highland Park NorthEast Uptown/Kenwood South Minneapolis 651.695.9955 612.788.8933 612.872.0880 612.821.9315 The locations are white on white in FireFox 1.0 .
Just a quickie - your header image is 750px, so I expected everything below there to be limited to 750px width; retrosanta.jpg is too wide and pushes the width beyond 800px, so does the Customer service/privacy/contact bar - this means I get an unecessary horizontal scroller when seeing page at 800px wide. Just 1 alt= missing, but all title= missing. Otherwise a nice uncluttered design. (Viewing in FireFox 1.0PR, 1600x1200 on 19" CRT)
Looks good! There must be a real good margin on that stuff (sorry to let it out... I'm a printer!). One thing, however, some of the menu titles didn't accruately describe some of the items in each section, I'm wondering if your customers are patient enough to scroll through everything and check each page to find what they want?!? Good luck!
Thanks to everyone!! These are some great observations and I'll definitely be addressing each one of them.
The address/phone issue has been fixed. Firefox MUST have # signs in front of colors. Santa has been compressed and greatly reduced in size. And as far as the 800/600 issue Lever, no idea what your talking about. Maybe you should update your Firefox. Looks good here 800x600
The site has some built-in content management capabilities that, while being very useful to the client to keep the site updated, can sometimes result in images being used that are much larger (in file size) than the need to be. The speed increase on load time is greatly improved. ALSO, we added a handful of Google and Overture pay-per-click words that are beginning to direct some good traffic. Word of mouth has been really good on this site and over the weekend, the site saw a sales increase of 500% Thanks again for your help and comments.
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Wow this is OLD LOL. They need to up the copyright date and get a new licensed template IMHO good luck.