Hi everyone, Long time no post! Anyway, I've been working pretty hard at just being a web designer (no entrepreneurial projects lately), and this is my latest creation. I wanted to get some feedback, critiques, criticism...and see what the web design/development community thinks of a site like this? saleshoeshack.com (not linked on purpose) As far as the "clutter" goes, my boss/client likes to put a lot on the homepage, and in this case, he likes the first impression of the visitor to be something like, "whoa these guys have a ton of shoes." He also insisted that I make the site fit widescreen monitors because he refuses to believe that people actually use a 1024 standard resolution. So I decided I would redirect the "index.htm" to detect the visitor screen resolution; thus, there are actually 2 index pages based on resolution. Some Questions/Thoughts... Yes, the site looks different from the "norm" Most sites these days look the same, we're trying something different. Do you find it interesting to explore? Do you like the search functionality? Ease of use? If you wanted to buy shoes, would you buy from a site like this? Would you share this site with friends? What's your absolute first impression? Good, bad? If you could improve anything besides the clutter issue, what would you change? Thanks for any input, feedback, comments, criticism.
let me review your site, FYI i am just common user, not expert in web designer. Holly great in your homepage. Its awesome idea, make those homepage like a real shoe store But on the browse page, its start to hurt my eyes (hyperbolic i think), its only white background with a lot of pictures and brown frames. The frames is too thick i think, make more thin for lux view. Suggestion, why dont you add live support there. I think its great feature Panji
I like it. I think you did a good job of conveying "whoa these guys have a lot of shoes" I don't however care for the template for every other page on the site. Also with SEO, you should change the _ on your page names to -. Search engines will detect - as a space, seperating the two words while _ will be seen as an underscore. G'luck!
Its a little to much, seems to much for an average user. Maybe use some javascript to hide and display information that is not needed right up front.
I agree that it's a bit too much - my eyes don't really know what to focus on. However, I do like the idea of it looking like a store front. Any chance you can make it 1 aisle?
Well I kinda like it, as I scrolled down I began to like it a bit less but it has a good first impression. If you could put some sort of background behind the text down the page that isnt the wood floor, it would be a lot easier to read though.
The design from a graphical point of view is great. However, the main point you want to do is divert the customers or visitors to buying shoes and you've done exactly that so it's really simple to use as well.
Looks intersting and different and is that difference what make me try to learn more about the website, good for first impression but I don't know if I want to brownse that site regularly, too complicated. Just my opinion.
It's different which is good, I like the design but I think that whilst some people will find it intriguing others will find it too much, I think most people like things to be kept straight forward and simply when shopping online. Dee
wooden color don;t suits shoe store! my opinion only...and I will must say change your font style to something more good...looks childish to me... But overal styles and shapes awsome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Whoa... that's a lot of shoes! Honestly? I love the design. But those potential customers who will want to understand or buy something from that site won't. So i guess your client will keep having lots of shoes!
It looks complicated. User interface should be simple and easily distinguishable from the page's content. When I think of usability design, I view Flickr as my model.