Megan — Thu, 09 Sep 2004 13:13:46 +0000

Thread merged. The posting agreement says something about not posting a site more than once in three months. We don't like to have more than one therad about the same site floating around.

Looks a lot better. One thing that stands out for me here is that the logo is really, really tiny. There's lots of space there so make the logo bigger to fill that up. I also think the navigation menu could stand to be bigger (in text size), and higher contrast.

Personally, I would use the red/yellow colour scheme of the "TRUTH" gear rather than the boring shades of blue you've got going here. That would be really eye catching, maybe with a beige or grey text background.

Dirty_Dawg — Thu, 09 Sep 2004 02:02:15 +0000

Much better.. best of luck

TriumphantGear.com...site redone

banners4pennies — Thu, 09 Sep 2004 01:38:31 +0000

After some recommendations from previous reviews/critiques, TriumphantGear.com has been redesigned. Any comments or suggestions on the new design would be most helpful.

Thank you.

TriumphantGear

heebiejeebieclu — Sun, 29 Aug 2004 10:46:42 +0000

Yeah, you have but the comments are still valid and the fact that more than one person has spotted them indicates that it's an obvious issue...

sbmontana — Sat, 28 Aug 2004 22:17:33 +0000

I'm writing this without looking at the other comments:

I'm not sure what this site is about? The title makes me think of camping/ mountaineering gear; and there is a man who seems to be sitting on top of a mountain -- but I see nothing else referring to that?

I can't tell if the 3Howards ad is part of this site, or an ad from another site.

Ok, now I see the Triumphant Gear shop.

The other links seem to be news (& open in new windows) -- is this a news site then?

Basically, I don't know what this site is about. The Family History link, which I thought might take me to information about the site owner, instead takes me to a genealogy site -- another ad?

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Now I've read the comments, and see I've done some repeating.

urbizanywhere — Sat, 28 Aug 2004 12:10:41 +0000

The site design is not much appleaing. You should place spacing btw the header and the navigation. It is not place properly.

Color theme is good The logo is nicely written and the bg of the looks great.
But over all its like an ordinary site design.

Regards,
Urbizanywhere.

Triumphmant Gear

dbliss — Fri, 27 Aug 2004 23:49:23 +0000

I was confused instantly what was the purpose of the site.

Outdoor gear or newsfeed.

What's worse, nothing stands out in terms of site identity.

Footer seems lacking in what you would normally expect, placement to left odd ( to me ).

Rich

KarenArt — Fri, 27 Aug 2004 22:24:40 +0000

I don't want to sound harsh here because I think you have an interesting idea going, but...

First I have to ask you, do you really need all those ads on your page?
You have 2 ads (or places for ads) at the top, a whole column of ads on the right and links to sponsors on the left... There's barely any room for your content.

Second, I understand that why you might want to open a new window for the cafe press shops but, you have a new window opening for the store's front page then another window for the shop. Now I have 3 seperate open windows... that's too much for me. I really like the simple design you have for each of the store's front pages! Can you do something like that for the homepage and (at least) have the front page for each store open in the same window?
You also have each of your news items opening in a new window. I can understand this also since it's from someone elses site. Honestly though, it looks like you don't have any original content at all when EVERYTHING opens a new window.

I would suggest (just my opinion now) concentrait just on the apparel items. Create a great store front and pages for each apparel section (Men's, Women's, Hats, etc.)
Don't add items from other people's sites just to fill space. You'll have enough of your own content before too long and you'll be more satisfied knowing it's all yours!

*Edited to add: I noticed that you said that you were after repeat customers which is why you have the news. I honestly feel that your customers are more likely to bookmark the site where the news item is at than yours, so I'm not sure that's going to work. Discussion forums, blogs, "submit your story", etc.... those are the type of unique items that can be on your site that will keep people coming back again and again.

banners4pennies — Fri, 27 Aug 2004 20:00:18 +0000

some changes have been made to the site bearing some of the comments on this thread. please take a chance to review the changes as they will be activated soon, http://www.triumphantgear.com/new

thank you

Dirty_Dawg — Thu, 26 Aug 2004 19:52:26 +0000

It appears that you are offering "news" for your content. That is OK, but compared to the news sources on the Web it does not stand out has it offers stronger news // in others words news that is difficult to find, and that would give your site the edge.

What I like is your shop for buying hats and shirts.. but that is buried.

I hope I am not sounding like a old goat, but content is as important as design.

Good Luck