Dan Grahn

Fineline Furniture

By Dan Grahn

   on Aug 04, 2010
10 Reviews1 Vote1 Favorite489 Views

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  • Noel Tock

    Noel Tock

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    This review has been awarded.
    Your Basket/Checkout Position

    Posted on Aug 04, 2010 at 12:31 PM

    I think this is a good start Dan, what engine do you plan on using on the backend?

    Here are some of my comments:

    • I'd create another bar above the fold to hold your "Your Basket" & "Checkout" buttons, maybe throw in the phone number right next to them (on the same bar).
    • I only noticed the dark green of the logo when I got on a product page, did you want integrate it more?
    • How is someone going to scroll through products within a category, jquery slider?
    • Social Media buttons are slightly 9-5, maybe align them to the design?
    • Spacing between characters is a little wild at parts, i.e. phone number bottom right.

    Otherwise I like the site, push the call to actions a little more and good luck!

    Cheers

    Noel

    • Dan Grahn
      Dan Grahn commented:
      Posted: on Aug 05, 2010 at 8:41 AM

      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?

  • Bart Steed

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    Re-Assess Vertical Space

    Posted on Aug 04, 2010 at 10:32 AM

    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"?

  • Mark Dewey

    Mark Dewey

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    Furniture?

    Posted on Aug 04, 2010 at 11:23 AM

    The picture looks good. I do not get the feral of an furniture.

    • Noel Tock
      Noel Tock commented:
      Posted: on Aug 04, 2010 at 12:34 PM

      Surprised you've given him all 1's without giving any specific pointers, oh well :) Guess we "r on teh interwebz"...

    • Luke Marohn
      Luke Marohn commented:
      Posted: on Aug 04, 2010 at 7:19 PM

      and he has my rank? Titan? Wow.

    • Mark Dewey
      Mark Dewey commented:
      Posted: on Aug 04, 2010 at 10:27 PM

      I am a little new at this review stuff. I am working on it.

    • Dan Grahn
      Dan Grahn commented:
      Posted: on Aug 05, 2010 at 8:44 AM

      Yeah. Sorry mark but I need a little more details to award this.

  • Dena B.

    Dena B.

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    Draft

    Posted on Aug 05, 2010 at 1:23 AM

    Very clean nice design but I feel there is too much non active space in the header..

  • Avinash Tripathi

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    More usable navigation

    Posted on Aug 05, 2010 at 3:25 AM

    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:

    1. Header space is a little wasted.
    2. Alignment of objects is a little mismatched.
    3. Shopping basket can have some more details, check out amazon or ebay for some very neat and usable ideas
    4. The primary and the secondary navigation is way apart to make relation between them

    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 :)

  • Vaibhav Shete

    Vaibhav Shete

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    Nice Design

    Posted on Aug 05, 2010 at 7:52 AM

    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

  • Aneesh Viswanath

    Aneesh Viswanath

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    Some thoughts....

    Posted on Aug 05, 2010 at 10:12 AM

    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

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  • Julio Rivera

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    Need alot of work

    Posted on Aug 06, 2010 at 10:33 AM

    Hey this is not a great start really needs a lot of work.

    Homepage

    • The nav is way to much to the right and needs some style to it. The text looks like (times) don't be scared to use colors.
    • the logo space is way to much for the top and bottom. I would use an image for the for size of the background and design on top of it. just to give the look of a showroom.
    • footer need a lot of work way to boring need alot of style and a better font.

    The inner pages

    • this looks a little better but also needs work. its best if you go look around the web for cool furniture store website.
  • Raymond Swart

    Raymond Swart

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    Clean

    Posted on Aug 22, 2010 at 5:21 PM

    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.

  • Marco Demaio

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    Wonderful design but what about SEO?

    Posted on Aug 26, 2010 at 6:29 AM

    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?