I think this is a good start Dan, what engine do you plan on using on the backend?
Here are some of my comments:
Otherwise I like the site, push the call to actions a little more and good luck!
Cheers
Noel
I really think this is great. I like monochromatic schemes with colorful content. In my opinion, it is one of the best ways to build an attractive layout without it distracting from the presentation.
There is one thing that is driving me crazy about this design though; the grey vertical space above your large photo to the right of the logo... Would it be possible to incorporate the logo into the menu bar and inverse it into a warm grey or faint green or perhaps even a faint gradient of both?
Typography looks great, although the overlying text in the photo is bold, but doesn't appear bold to me because it's all bold. How about trying to un-bold everything except "Premium"?
The picture looks good. I do not get the feral of an furniture.
Surprised you've given him all 1's without giving any specific pointers, oh well :) Guess we "r on teh interwebz"...
Looks like a good start and I feel you are very much in the middle of things. I like the fonts and the typography and the subtle colors used.
A few pointers on first look: On branding: I think the logo colors can be utilized in some form On Design Elements:
On interaction: As suggested by Noel some kind of carousel can be very neat for representation however a simple approach of pagenation would help too. But the in place bigger view of the items can really help the users without needing to go to the details page. I think they need to go there when they are convinced and need to buy for sure.
Hope this helps you to move ahead :)
Hi Dan, Its a real nice and clean design you have there. The only thing I would like to suggest is the distance between categories and the address is too much. You can add something as a filler of the gap. Otherwise its a good design
Dan,
I am liking this. There are three points that came to my mind. 1. The space on the right hand side of the logo. One way out is, you can implement the my account, cart, logout links there on the right hand side. One by one, vertically. It will give you a closed and balanced look for the top portion. 2. Now the main image. Don't you think the label is blocking a good part of the image? I would rather try the label at bottom, something like the attached image, so that there will be no visual barrier. 3. Use bred crumb, it will be easy for the user to know where actually they are.
-Aneesh
Hey this is not a great start really needs a lot of work.
Homepage
The inner pages
I think you hit the nail on the head with this one, it definitely portrays a clean look.
I do think there is far too much white space next to the logo and below the top menu. Perhaps you could extend the main image right to the top with a slightly transparent box behind the logo which would match the one used in the main image?
Otherwise not much I would change, it does look good.
The design is wonderful, it's clean nice, i love it. I even like the space on the right side of the logo, true, as someone said, that is maybe too much space, but I'm so tired of seeing website packed with everything that seeing some clean space is in someway refreshing. It makes feel you are not pushing me to buy, it makes me feel, "ooh how nice let's look into it".
My only concern is Search Engine Optimization. You probably know that bascially a serach engine is going to value more for indexing purpose your website HOME PAGE compared to all others pages.
Have you ever wondered why almost all ecommerce site show a screen of products in the HOME PAGE? Because those products (if they contain some text, not simply images) are going to be more relevant in serach engine results compared to the rest of the sites. Where did you plan in your HOME PAGE design to fit a screen of products?
Thanks Noel,
I was planning on using magneto for the backend. Any thoughts?
Just one question. On your first comment, do you mean another place for the basket and checkout buttons?