Such A Bloke

Have been working on this for quite a while, has been live for about a week.

Have used a number of mods

Newsletter Enhancements v3.4
merkent_tab_masonry
customer_order_product_upload(v1.3)
news-blog-v3

and a few others

Its gifts for her from guys that are pants at romance.

here's the site http://suchabloke.com

nobody?

In general I like the look of the site. Is the OKE in bloke from Coke?

I find it a bit annoying that I have to hover over each product thumb (in category.tpl) to see the name, etc of the item. The pictures are very artistic, but don't necessarily tell me much about the product. I really only like grid view when it's clear with information like list view (which you don't seem to have). (and yes, my site has a grid view that is similar to yours and I have to edit it, but list view is default).

One other thing, that makes it hard to get to the the actual product page, is that the red circle (with the price) on the category page isn't clickable. It takes up quite a lot of room on the thumb, but then I have to navigate off the price to click through to the product page.

The other styling I would look at changing is the "paper roll" on the product page. I looked at this theme for a friend but that paper roll reminded me too much of loo paper.... maybe make it loop back into a hole (like the one it comes out of) at the bottom...

cheers phil, that's really helpful, will have a look at those points.

ps no the logo is a free font, comes with windows and has an open license, I assume like most corporates they would license their font and have is designed for them.

didnt notice the resemblance before but yeah it does look a bit similar

Nice use of the Genesis theme here, Alex. I would look into replacing the buttons though. A lot of this theme's styling is 'boxed' so maybe just make the buttons rectangular with a bit of padding to suit the theme better - example below:



One thing I immediately noticed was the quality of your banners & category images. A majority of the banners (more so the bigger ones) have great images, but when you add your red box with text, it seems to degrade the quality of the banner as a whole. Here's an example - http://suchabloke.com/image/cache/data/ ... 00x504.jpg - it has a nice quality image, but the red box & text aren't so clear.

Maybe try creating them in a better format and re-uploading them?

You've got some great, fun products, and the funny/quirky descriptions make it a joy to navigate from product-to-product to see what else you offer, so good going there.

Also, and this is just a pet hate of mine, open your main CSS file and find your anchor class ('a') for links and add this styling - outline: none!important; - what this does is remove the dotted border you get whenever you click on any link.

Other than that, it looks good, well done.

cheers sam, will look at that.

have noticed fireworks renders jpegs better than photoshop so will give that a go and will look at those buttons too.

thanks again

Hi there,

I agree with the people that have already commented on your site. Nicely done well done. The only thing that would put me off from buying from your site is that there is not contact phone number or mailing address either. Which if you are selling in the UK is a legal requirement.

But design and graphics are NICE

Good Luck with you new store.