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I'm looking for some critiques of my two Able powered sites

Post by macfuzzylogic » Mon Dec 03, 2007 4:29 pm

I have two websites that I would like some honest opinions on as far ease of navigation.

We sell a specialized product to a very specific crowd of shoppers. My main concern is, is it easy enough to navigate and shop on for a new user to the site?

Also what is your opinion on a specialized site such as mine? Do you feel it's better to have less clicks to find a product or to organize the products better within sub-sub-categories so there are less products on each page?

Mustang Parts http://www.calmuscleparts.com
Camaro parts http://www.americanrestorationparts.com

Thanks for any suggestions you might have to offer.

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Post by jmestep » Mon Dec 03, 2007 5:40 pm

Navigation seemed pretty usable for me. The only problem I see is on the http://www.calmuscleparts.com where the subcategories in the left nav were hard to follow, but you could still navigate using the categories on the page guts. Maybe a different color on the subcategories. You might want to make the left nav wider since the category names are so long.
On the other site, I didn't as much of a problem.
The only other thing I noticed was on a page like:
http://www.americanrestorationparts.com ... -C440.aspx
where you have products that have options and those that don't and it has the quantity box for one that doesn't have options. I know that is how it is set up in Able, but when we used that, customers thought they couldn't buy the products that didn't have a quantity box and they didn't click in to the product to find out that they could. So we took the buy buttons and quantity boxes off our category pages so that they have to click in to the product page to buy anything.
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Post by macfuzzylogic » Tue Dec 04, 2007 5:04 pm

Thanks for the advice.

I'm having trouble getting the menu nav. items to change color as you suggest. I've tried changing the style sheet, but must have done something wrong because I couldn't get those items to change color.

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Post by adamspa » Wed Dec 05, 2007 4:44 pm

I agree with Judy, the http://www.calmuscleparts.com is easy to navigate, but the category names are really long, the othe one looks pretty good.

One thing that I would do, separate from the navigation, is make your center tables at least as long as your side nav tables, so that it looks a little more clean. Even maybe nest them, so that no matter how little information is in the center column, the page is always the same height.

I like the color scheme, perhaps you could build new buttons too rather than using the stock buttons.

I realaize you may still be in the development stages, and this is just a new user advice sort of thing.

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