OutfitEZ - comments appreciated

[outfitez]

I would much appreciate any comments on my first effort at a commercial site.

www.outfitez.com (http://www.outfitez.com)

The main content of the site is html and css, and then the ecommerce engine (after login) is based on osCommerce (i.e php), heavily modified since the site requires user-managed subscriptions.

If you want to play around with the commerce part of the site without creating a new account, then use:
Username: testing@outfitez.com
Password: testing
(but remember that the site is live)

Thanks,
Chris

[infinityspiral]

Very first thing on the page I saw were the graphics. They're bad. There were jagged edges on the logo and the product shots so those need to be fixed or scrapped. The main menu was good, but because the header with the logo is the same color as the rest of the page it looks like it's floating and out of place shoved up against the left side.

I didn't immediately realize the featured profiles was a widget. It could probably be pretty good but the colors need to be tweaked for the background or it needs to have a border to group it from the rest of the page content.

I didn't like graphs for the business to casual and conservative/trendy. I think it would be more useful to the customer if you made these actual shopping categories instead.

It's a cool idea though- basically the equivelent to sitting on the edge of bed waiting for the wife pick out what you're wearing to work that day :)

[outfitez]

Thanks for the comments.

At least some for the reason for the lousy graphics was that I was using the browsers to resize the images, which they seem to do rather badly, especially for gifs. So I resized all my images in an image editor first.

The "floating menu" is exactly the sort of thing that a developer stops seeing after working on a page for too long, and thanks for the perspective. I want to fix this by making the whole header into a more obvious banner (still need to set up a photo shoot to get my background image for the banner)

I played with the background and added some arrows to more clearly demark the widget on the profiles page. I also added an interactive business to casual and conservative/trendy widget to help select the profile.

> It's a cool idea though- basically the equivelent to sitting on the edge of bed waiting for the wife pick out what you're wearing to work that day

Thanks. I think of it more as sitting on the couch watching TV while the wife goes out to the mall for you:)