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It's pretty good I just have a couple of suggestions on design. First of all I would recommend decreasing the size on your "featured" items at the top they are a bit large in my opinion. Also, I would recommend somehow emphasizing the price a little more; I know it's in a red color but I would recommend increasing the text size since the site is about finding lower prices and whatnot. Possibly even changing your item layouts to have 3 columns with the third column being the old price(s) and the new price in a large font (18px give or take).
Your filtering system is good (for example on the coupons page) I like it a lot. On your "content" pages that feature tips and advice, I would recommend separating your content with some headers or something as reading a bunch of paragraphs with relatively small text can at first turn people off as they don't want to sift through it to find what they want exactly (if they don't want to read the whole thing). Also, on those pages I would recommend adding some strong/em tags around some keywords to increase both seo and readability of the page.
Other than those things, I really do like your overall design, it's a good one; especially considering the massive functionality you have on the site; I'm a silly programmer so I know that your site is no small task on the development side, so good job on that one.
I would also recommend that you have some sort of intro paragraph or possibly a clear about us page, or a "what is this site?" link or something like that just to kind of clarify to some users who might not immediately recognize what the site is for; also you could lay out your major and some minor features there (or all of them) so that even if someone does know what the site does or has a good idea, they can maybe find something that they didn't know about right off the bat.
Next, I would recommend that your blog be improved on the design side; right now there is way too much whitespace to the point where it's kind of hard to figure out what is going on. I would recommend placing your archive navigation on the right side as another column instead of at the bottom as well.
Lastly, I would warn you about the fluid, fullscreen layout you have. While they can be good in some situations most of the time they are not. However, your site (because it has lots of content) does not do poorly as a full screen page like you have, but on my 1920x1200 screen the pages with mostly text (i.e. the tips and whatnot) can get a bit annoying with stretched out paragraphs. Also there is a bit of extra whitespace that has nothing in it (because you don't have a right column on a lot of pages) on most of the other pages. That being said, I wouldn't necessarily recommend changing it since, 1920 is not the common screen resolution; just something to think about for future revisions of the design. I think the site functions well with your current design.
All in all, I think you've done a good job; everything I said (while it may seem like a bit much) is not really a whole lot; they are just minor tweaks and changes and could easily be written off as personal opinion anyway; this is definitely one of the better sites I've seen here.
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Mark Hudson
Ritetek Design
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