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If you can find a middle ground. Start with that pink, it hurts! Let her keep green and do something with the pink. If it's not negotiable, find ways to hide it behind text or anything! She might have to learn by tial and error like the rest of us, let her. It's worth it for peace in your home.

Us mommies want relaxing soothing-repeat relaxing colors to rest in while we shop, not colors that make us want to hurry up so we can run from the discomfort-we have kids to make us uncomfortable and to feel like running away-lol.

You are onto a good idea. Lots of really great suggestions on this thread! Has she read this thread? The best to the both of you on your new venture.
 


Okay, here's an example of a similar header (mine's not as good, just pastel colors) V.U.H.Q. - Host Your Files For Free

That's just a download for the .jpeg. All I did was try and recreate your header (couldn't figure out how to make the star rounded, and the font's different) and use lighter colors. Still green and pink, but a little easier on the eyes. See if you wife likes those colors.

(sorry I butchered your header, I was in a hurry and I'm not very good with designs) :error:

~Mike~
 
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ok, here goes

1. i like the links New Arrivals Infants etc..
2. stick some alt text on the logo for the search engines.
3. needs products on the homepage
4. them colours are awful (sorry i know u said not to give u shit about them) maybe darken the green if she wont compromise.
 
DogShit

Sorry dude, I wouldn't by dogshit from a site like that let alone anything related to a child.

Do your wife a favor and grab any number of simple templates from the web and populate it with your products.

Integration with zen or os-commerce should be relatively easy.

Better yet, follow the suggestion of one of the gents earlier and use os-commerce and pay a few dollars for one of the nicer templates, customize it with your wifes shitty taste in colors and she'll be happy.

Even one of the default templates would be better that that turd you have.

Or more specifically the fonts are shit and too small, the product list layout makes the site look like early 90's style web and therefore not so trustworthy, that blue on top of white makes it really fucking hard to read then some pink thown in there makes it look like a 5 year made the site all you need is a crayon font style and you'll be set).

Seriously, grab a template and fuck that custom hand crafted shit.
 
I'm not sure how to describe this well, but I don't think that the products match the target audience of the site. Your landing page, site name, and descriptive tag made me think it would be cutesy little outfits for the baby, maybe some nursing clothes for the mother, etc.

Instead, what I got when I looked at the products were irreverent, humorous t-shirts. Definitely a market for them, but I think that anybody who wants to buy those t-shirts would be turned off by your site before they even saw the products. Conversely, anybody who likes your site and wants to check out your products probably won't want to buy what you're offering.

This is just my opinion of course, but I was genuinely surprised and a bit put off when I saw what you were actually selling.
 
The purple background sort of scares me.

Maybe go on rent-a-coder, or pay someone from around here to help you out. Check out some layouts that other tee-shirt stores are using.... might give you a couple of ideas.
 
It took me at least 4 clicks to get a larger image of a onsie, then it was a popup at I had to resize to view it...and then it was just a digital camera pic of a onsie on a clothesline...in quite possibly a trailer park?!?! And what the hell is that site running on, an old 286 with a 28.8 dialup modem? WTF!! That was a painful visit.

S.
 
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a digital camera pic of a onsie on a clothesline...in quite possibly a trailer park?!?! And what the hell is that site running on, an old 286 with a 28.8 dialup modem? WTF!! That was a painful visit.

S.
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Blow me, that is the front yard of my 1900 square foot house that I had built about a year ago.

Yes, the images are a digital camera pic because we rushed getting it up because a bunch of her friends wanted to buy some. Site is slow due to a busy shared hosting account.

But thanks for the feedback.
 
Jdog said:
Blow me, that is the front yard of my 1900 square foot house that I had built about a year ago.

Yes, the images are a digital camera pic because we rushed getting it up because a bunch of her friends wanted to buy some. Site is slow due to a busy shared hosting account.

But thanks for the feedback.
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Jdog,
I didnt mean to offend you, but apparently I did. Let me clarify....

Trailer Park - Nothing wrong with them, but there's no way to tell where the hell your clothesline picture was taken. And to be honest, I see more clotheslines with onesies at trailer parks than I do at 1900 sq ft houses.

Slow connection - It's true. Do you like shopping at stores with 50 people in line and only one checkout line?

Both of those comments are "feedback" about what I though about your "site". Nothing about you. I think the site would be better if you improved in those areas.

S.
 
Not offended here bro. The clothesline idea was my wife's to be cutesie. Hopefully next week I can start working on it again.
 
Anytime you're trying to sell something with a picture, it's best to find as bland a background as possible. Preferably a white background. People are there to buy your clothes, not the background.

So, while it may seem boring, it works and its what the big dogs do.
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