Hello everyone. I run the site http://zimbabwedollars.net and would be interested in getting some feedback on it. The site sell Zimbabwe Hyperinflation money. I'm particularly interested in feedback on the design aspects of this site. I'm a programmer by trade, and wanted to program the backend of this from scratch (right now it's little more than a simple CMS using google checkout to handle shopping cart stuff). But I'm horrible at anything related to design. I paid someone to make an initial page layout awhile ago but I diverged a bit from it and am not sure if things look good. Anything that you see that you find annoying about the site, things that you think could be better, or just general design tips would be much appreciated. I was very close to posting this in the design reviews forum, but I guess I feel that makes things too narrow, really I'm open to any comments or feedback on the site. Is the content readable? Would you not buy something from such a site because it doesn't accept Paypal, or another payment processor? I'm slowly going to add features, but is there anything that you find glaringly missing right now? Like search or something? Thanks in advanced.
The header looks fine, but the buttons and the text part could be better, IMO. Blue text on blue background is a little hard to read (over the buttons) The gray text is also a little hard to read on this background color. Personnly, if I had the money, I would hire a designer to redo this part (between the header and the footer). but it's not that bad either... I mean, if I wanted to buy this money, I would probably use your Website anyway. Good luck with your project
Thanks for the feedback! I agree that the sidebar buttons look off, I tried messing with a few different things but they all ended up looking even worse. I wish I could just get good at designing stuff but my efforts haven't really paid off so far. Thanks again though, hopefully I will be able to justify paying for more design soon.
Try some sharper colors..maybe change the outer body background to white so the blue inner main body background will pop out more... Jamie
Try building the site according web 2.0 rules if you want to attract more internet customers for your business
Not a bad looking site. However, I would recommend adding your phone number throughout your website. You can also add a link to your Ebay store. Many people are skeptical about buying from e-commerce stores that don't appear 100% legitimate. You don't want to lose potential customers because of that.