Care to judge my new site I just launched?

I like the logo and titles. I think I would prefer it if the home page was separate from the products listings and described what you are about and then there were links to the products by categories. This was is a little confusing and busy.

The T-72 seems like a bargain.

@janbb Thats a good point, I do plan to add categories a bit later as right now there aren’t that many products on there, but I agree there really is no way to filter what you want to look at. I thought the same thing about the home page but I keep going back and forth on this, the key is I want people to immediately see cool stuff and be like wow click click and send links to their friends, I’m worried about having a barrier between when they hit my site and when they find the pages to links, since it’s mostly amazon affiliate links (that’s how I’ll be making money)

@woodcutter yeah it is a bargain lol, though I wonder what shipping costs are on that beast.

shit…. it’s another thisiswhyimbroke.com type site. I waste so much time looking at shit I’ll never own lol. Looks good though man, my only real suggestion would be to break it down a bit like @janbb suggested.

I cant see the black menu links against the green bar very well on my 5” phone screen. May look better on desktop but even after magnifying on my phone its still very difficult to read that font style in black against the dark green.

But all in all a very appealing web store. Well done!

@RealEyesRealizeRealLies could you tell me what browser you’re viewing it in? It should show up as White text outlined with black shadow, on older IE browsers it should just show as white text.

@uberbatman Ha yep, that site is actually my inspiration for this one. I figured if I just Niched it maybe I would have a decent site going as well.

Oh wow it looks totally different and readable on my desktop. My 5” Dell Streak phone only shows the black type against the green. Impossible to read. It uses the standard Android browser.

@RealEyesRealizeRealLies Thanks, I’ll definitely check this out.

Nice concept, and I’m sure that over time you’ll evolve and refine the design, as every webmatser does.

The “Check Out” button confused me a bit, since ‘check out’ is the term used for when you’re done shopping and ready to pay… I was concerned that tapping the button might add the product to my shopping cart or take me to a screen that asked for my credit card. Could you change the button to “check it out”, “learn more”, “more info” or something along those lines?

The crazy font and images are overpowering. My eyes can’t focus on the text. I literally can’t read it.

I like the stuff there. Though i seldom do online shopping any more, if I were to come into some disposable income I’d be looking. Keep it going man.

@Pachyderm_In_The_Room Thanks, and I definitely will be refining this, it started out as a project with what I could to with what I knew and I figured, why not make some money off it.

@hearkat You have a great point, i’ll be updating it to “check it out”

@johnpowell I agree but the images are suppose to catch people’s attention. I am not sure how I could make it better to read other than change the font on the item headers to a more common font that people are familiar with.

@woodcutter Thanks, I’ll do my best :) tell your friends who have disposable incomes to visit haha

@LKidKyle1985 :: See sites that use a similar format. Like http://www.theverge.com

Focus on the text. The actual content. This is hard to read. Get rid of the stupid font and big yellow button. Make the actual text bigger so it is the focus. The image should be a supporting member.

And yeah, I do this for food money.

@johnpowell thanks for the examples, I’ll play around with the font sizes and see what I can do, it’s definitely given me something to think about, especially for the DIY page layout and having content be the focus with the photo being supporting. Regarding the button, I guess I like it because its kind of a “call to action”. I’ll probably keep it for now while I’m working on building up the traffic, but I’ll experiment with it later when i have enough people to test out the numbers with and without the button on there.

The button is fine. Just make it smaller and color that doesn’t hurt my eyes. I would suggest a light gray. I will help you out.

http://stfudamnit.com/ryan/tank.jpg

Looks a bit better to me. And my eyes can read the actual text.

- The font is doing some strange things with my eyes. I just can’t read it.
– The product images have sizing/resolution problems. For example, the solar cell charger and CamelBak look pixelated.
– There check out buttons are confusing. At first I thought it was some kind of “checkout”, as in purchase. But now I see that it is really serving as a link to Amazon.
– There is an old-school email image button that doesn’t work.
– The colors (dark green and yellow), along with the fonts, give me a “scammy” retro feeling that I can’t explain.

Bullet proof clipboard…for all those scared travelling salespersons out there, knock in safety.

@tom_g let me ask you about the colors, do you think its just that its green and yellow, or is it because they are just solid, non-cascading colors? I was actually thinking the same thing, but I was thinking of cascading it or going with more of a steel color.

I’ll see what I can do about adding a link to that email button.

Sorry, I’m mixing my terms up, I meant gradient colors, where it fades into another. not cascading (sighs).

The colors kill it. It steals focus. It confuses eyes. I am not joking. I can’t read the text. Even if I try really hard. Really, I can’t read the text. Did I mention that I can’t read the text?

I’m not color-blind either.

And inserting ads is kinda shit when you link to stuff on Amazon with your referrer ID embedded in links.

Right, I am making the text larger with larger line-height and swapped out the funky font headers.

Also regarding the ads, I am just doing what everyone else does with sites like this as far as advertisements go, from the people I’ve chatted with Ad revenue brings in from 30%-40% of their revenue which is too huge to leave out.