Website Review and Suggestions

**relic200** · 08-14-2009, 10:31 AM

This is actually my second version, but the site's just about finished and I was looking for some feedback. Still have a small list of changes and fixes to attend to, but most of the site is finished for now.

NOTE: THIS IS AN OFFENSIVE T-SHIRT DESIGN STORE. Lots of profanity, vulgar humor and controversial topics. Don't visit if you're not ok with this sort of thing.

http://www.skullcrow.com/index.php

NOTE #2: Orders are NOT being processed right now, although the checkout pages are all setup and mostly finished. Just FYI.

**TRANZIT JIM** · 08-15-2009, 03:19 AM

I like the homepage.

Also like the way you placed all the buttons on the home page.

It may be worth your while to break up such a long list into related groups, have each group under a heading.

**relic200** · 08-16-2009, 10:30 AM

I was thinking that too. Right now the file size of the main page is much too big, and mostly due to the product images loading (each is around 10k).

I suppose I could simply break the list up into pages of about 20-30 images each. Although I'm curious if there is a way to force the browser to load up everything else on the page before starting to load the images? Also, isn't there some code somewhere that sites are using that only loads a certain number of images at a time depending on how low the user has scrolled? I think that's a pretty slick way of handling it...

**Fartzor** · 08-16-2009, 10:44 AM

Nice designs!

The site is OK, the nav could be neater, but apart from that I like it all.

**johnnyz525** · 08-16-2009, 01:23 PM

I love those shirts.....site looks great, logo and navigation are well designed..overall a really well put together design

**relic200** · 08-18-2009, 12:44 PM

Fartzor, by "nav could be neater", did you mean the appearance of the nav buttons and links, or the actual structure of the site?

Any other issues with the site? I really appreciate negative feedback, because it gives me some direction on what to focus on when updating/upgrading things. I'm sure many of you know, it's really difficult to see a site you've been building and staring at for days, weeks, even months, in the same way your visitors do so it's harder to spot the problem areas.

One thing I really need to know, is the process of registering and/or logging in easy or confusing? Is it quick enough, or is it too complex?

Also, there are two very distinct themes for the site depending on if you're looking at storefront stuff, or community stuff. Does this make sense, or does it just come across as weird? If weird, anything specifically weird about it or just in general?

**weblover50** · 08-18-2009, 01:21 PM

nice design.. suitable for commerical purpose..

**golden14** · 08-18-2009, 02:45 PM

Advertise in back pages of "Loaded" magazine and this site will fly. Great example of how off line advertising could result in online mega $$$. Only comment would be I am on 20 Mb broadband and the images still took a while to load. Of note is that when I ran a site speedchecker on one of my clients sites (mobile phone reviews) I found it was his download speed (images of mobile phones) that was causing the problem. He decreased the image resolution and as a result of the faster download speed, his adsense income went from $3 a day to $30 a day within 24 hours! Not bad for a simple change and think same might apply to your t-shirts. e.g. the more that load faster the more that people see them, and the more people buy!
Hope this helps
Dickie Boy
Adsense guru and general help people out dogsbody....

**emofree** · 08-19-2009, 01:55 AM

nice the design is wickedly cool ... lol at the Twenty 4 ...

**Kworth** · 08-21-2009, 10:06 AM

I think the design looks pretty cool

**vasoa** · 08-21-2009, 11:51 AM

Great lay-out of altered logos on the main page. Is it possible to make t-shirts with real logos on this web-site?

**relic200** · 08-21-2009, 09:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by vasoa

Great lay-out of altered logos on the main page. Is it possible to make t-shirts with real logos on this web-site?

Are you asking if we're going to let customers order shirts with actual unaltered trademarked logos of companies?

Well, no. The altered logos on this site are parodies and are thus protected by parody law, although we could go and purchase rights from companies to do this but the site and the brand are intended to be a sort of counter-culture thing. Having unaltered company logos available goes against that goal.

Of course, first and foremost it's about growing the business and if things work out we may decide to add some official logos to our catalog if the trade off looks to be a net gain.