Greyprint is open - Finally.

[pisquee]

I think you could do better with the menu being the full width of the page and only across a single line, rather than clumped up and pushed to the right of the page over 3 lines

If you move the mother's day voucher over to the right, and then the try out lettering tool guy up, you will free up some currently white space, and make it less of a scroll to the bottom of the page.

Lateste products needs to either be centred, or have four products across the page width. I would also suggest changing this to best selling products, and having it towards the top of the page, so it is visible on first opening the site - have products people can see immediately they can quickly buy.

If you could have the "welcome to GreyPrint" to the right of the mug logo, it would be better.
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[Dave271069]

Haven't had a look yet and please remind not to ask forum members for there opinions on my site as it's enough to make you want to give it all up...
I say it's all about sales, and building a customer base,

[FutureProject]

First off a web presence is 100% better than not, so that's a major positive.

The aim for a clean, fresh site is not a bad one, particularly when your product base has a wide scope with a very wide target audience.

Your home page has a lot of fluff on the top, your carousel could do with being max 200px high and more 'as one', I would also consider making it about 75% and using the other 25% for a same height banner for your current special offer. (I've done a quick mock of a potential banner.

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I know you've spent a long time (and probably money) on your diy lettering tool and are quite proud of it, but it's mentioned in too many places on the home page, and it also has too many menu items for it, that should be cut right down to one, I would also get more products on your home page, at the moment I can only see 3 (and I have to scroll a long way to get to them).

Listing pages are ok, your description text for me is too large and bold and your popular products (being not focused on your current section) could do with being shifted to the other side.

Product pages again are fine, do what they need to do.

I didn't see a contact page, this is not only a legal requirement, it's absence is a massive wall in the way of a customer making a purchase.

So all in, your home page needs pulling together but you're not as far off as it may seem.

[Mattie]

I would say the structure is there it just needs to the layout to be corrected (white space is dead space)

give your banners a background colour to help them stand off the page as having everything with white background is to hard to look at like the one attached

[pisquee]

hmmm, Sunderland, Durham, Bishop Auckland - bit of a northern thing going on here!

[arko]

What about the Vale of Glamorgan?

[Mattie]

Technically i'm in Washington but nobody ever knows where it is so it's easier to say Sunderland lol, (even the government) we used be under Durham council then Newcastle and now Sunderland council but we still have a NE postcode

[spongerobinson]

sure i may as well chime in with the northerners too!

the menu is definitely something I'd make a priority Nik. I think somebody else already mentioned it (ah, it was pisquee), but I'd make it full width, under the logo/header, and probably add a colour background to it, something along the lines of the blue when you hover on the drop downs. should be relatively easy to sort that by adding a few lines to your main CSS file.

I also think the text is probably too big throughout, again easily remedied generally by one or two changes to the CSS file.

I'm not familiar with cubecart, but what I would say is if you can install a second version of it on a subdomain, you can play around with making changes to that version, without affecting the live site until you are happy with them. This is generally something I do with all sites I design.

Also one final thing I've noticed is there seems to be no products in the Latest Products section at times, just a big empty space. Seems to be random.

[RogerC]

Nik you might like to reconsider the: "Selection of Decals we have already created for Kawasaki". It gives the impression that 'you' created the logo which you most certainly didn't and as such the possibility of being 'chased' over the implication is there. It is certainly misrepresentation.

Additionally the spelling on the motorcycle page is something that will most likely put people off. After all if the 'sign maker' has a site with spelling mistakes/errors it is highly likely the potential customer will look elsewhere.

"We decided to offer these because of the prro quality offerings on various Auction Sites, unfortunately in most cases from what we have seen low quality vinyl is being used. not only that but the Decals are not the original sizes making them look a little out of place on peoplesBikes which as we all know will not do at all."

The above has spelling and grammatical errors and in all honesty does not read very well. If I was a potential customer I would be looking elsewhere.

I wish you all the best with the site and the comments are intended as constructive criticism not as 'knock you down' points.

[NikGrey]

Thanks again all, I can assure you that all comments are being taken as intended and are a great help.
I am working my way through the suggestions as we speak - its already looking much nicer.