Re-designing my LHBS website

[Ryan_PA]

I am currently working out the details, but I have verbal commitment from the owner that he wants me to do his re-design. I have created dozens of sites in my life, but never one I had an actual interest in. There is a beta design I have presented to him, but I do not want to show it here until I am done and it is in production...or at least complete in beta. For reference, here is the current site:

http://www.winebeeremporium.com/

The formatting of it is screwed, so he wants my design ASAP.

 

[Cheesefood]

I am currently working out the details, but I have verbal commitment from the owner that he wants me to do his re-design. I have created dozens of sites in my life, but never one I had an actual interest in. There is a beta design I have presented to him, but I do not want to show it here until I am done and it is in production...or at least complete in beta. For reference, here is the current site:

http://www.winebeeremporium.com/

The formatting of it is screwed, so he wants my design ASAP.

Couple things...

1. The graphic on the Top Right (Green graphic). If you did it in Photoshop, go back and select the text, right click and select "Anti-alias smooth". Do the same with all graphics.

2. What is the "Got Beer Oh Yea" graphic for?

3. I'm not a fan of your nav menus. How come there are no menus on the left side of the page or at the bottom?

I hate to be insulting, but I'm not very impressed by this site. In all honestly, if I were the client, I'd be pretty upset. It's not easily navagated. Your source code is horribly bloated (which means that his bandwidth will be overused). Furthermore, there's no external style sheet for future upgrades.

Your contact forms use mailto: links. What about people who don't use an external mail editor? You should set up a mail form, which will look more professional and not fall victim to e-mail harvesting spammer-bots.

You should look into putting up a custom skinned Joomla site. You probably spent a good deal of time on the graphics, but they just don't work right.

Sorry to be so negative.

 

[Walker]

Hey, Cheesefood....

the link he posted is for the shop's CURRENT website (soon to be replaced). It's not the one Ryan is designing. You are not supposed to be impressed with the one linked to.

 

[Ryan_PA]

Yeah, like walker said, that link is the fat "before" chick. The skinny "after" model will hopefully be released this month.

 

[david_42]

Whoever did the "before" obviously never hear of Firefox!

 

[Cheesefood]

I think I misread his post. He sent me a link to his design and it is really very, very good.

The current site isn't afat chick, it's much much worse. Looking at the current site is like seeing a new Goatse picture and recognizing the man as your father. It's that disappointing.