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Hi everyone,

I'm getting ready to launch a new website and was hoping you could provide me with some feedback. Specifically, what do you think of the overall design and is it user friendly?

I am eager to hear your opinions...good or bad! Thanks for taking the time...its is greatly appreciated.

The site is ultigear.com.
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  • Profile picture of the author Hentie
    I like the style of the website but you should ask yourself what you are trying to achieve. There is no real focus. If you want to make a site that you can monetize and get targeted traffic to then you have to create a much more targetted theme. A general shopping site (like Amazon) is not a good idea unless you have a huge budget.
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  • Profile picture of the author John Ayling
    I'm currently using Firefox and the first page is blank for me.
    Can see the left hand navigator bar when I mouse-over, and when I click on any of the links I get a 404 page not found error.
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    • Profile picture of the author Carl Potts
      could the fancy sidebar cause crawling problems? thus harming your SEO.
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    • Profile picture of the author mikedex
      Originally Posted by John Ayling View Post

      I'm currently using Firefox and the first page is blank for me.
      Can see the left hand navigator bar when I mouse-over, and when I click on any of the links I get a 404 page not found error.
      Also I'm facing same thing. Inner pages are not found and home page is showing blank.
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  • Profile picture of the author CPANetDirectory
    Not sure whether its blank because you are working on it, or whether there is a problem on the site.
    All there really is at the moment is the fancy sidebar, and none of the links on it work.
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  • Profile picture of the author BillyW
    Blank page. I use Chrome, and like others have said, I can see the slide out nav bar on the left-hand side, but everything else is blank. I tried clicking a the links and they all result in a blank 404 error page.
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  • Profile picture of the author DanielDuffo
    I like your website. Looks like good.
    Nice idea, and I'm glad that someone does not use templates.
    Keep it on )
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  • Profile picture of the author Evocess
    Same thing here. I'm using chrome and I can only see blank page with a navigation bar.
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  • Profile picture of the author susansaunders
    Looks like you got it fixed. Im using firefox and everything is showing up for me. Looks good!
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  • Profile picture of the author antac
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    Awesome site, it's a nice clean layout. The information is clear and easy to see. Basically Love the contents, layout and templates, they are really well done. I like the overall designs.
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  • Profile picture of the author aidanbradley
    Is the site based on a chopped up Eleven40 Genesis Theme?
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  • Profile picture of the author Absolute Logo
    I think its a decent site.. I can suggest to maybe use another color, something that would gel with black. It being all black is so boring to me. Just a suggestion
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  • Profile picture of the author praneethmaddu
    Very nice....
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  • Profile picture of the author WebsiteBegin
    It's too... White. It needs some colour to pull the readers eyes to the content. It's also loading at an extremely slow pace - that will hurt you SEO wise and reader wise. If it wasn't for the sake of giving you advice, I would have left before even the content completely loaded.

    And what's the sidebar? Just a 300x300 ad? That's definitely not a good place to be starting with your sidebar. Ads are a dying breed, and it looks like that one ad takes up about half of your entire content box.

    It's a good start, but needs some work.
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    • Profile picture of the author JuneCelo
      Originally Posted by WebsiteBegin View Post

      It's too... White. It needs some colour to pull the readers eyes to the content. It's also loading at an extremely slow pace - that will hurt you SEO wise and reader wise. If it wasn't for the sake of giving you advice, I would have left before even the content completely loaded.

      And what's the sidebar? Just a 300x300 ad? That's definitely not a good place to be starting with your sidebar. Ads are a dying breed, and it looks like that one ad takes up about half of your entire content box.

      It's a good start, but needs some work.

      I agree 100% on this. It's just so....uninteresting (for me) to say the least. And the sidebar....? Well, I'm just hoping that this isn't your final design and that this is still a work in progress. Sorry.
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  • Profile picture of the author thelearningman
    This site is by no means ready from prime time. Too much focus has been placed on design (an attempt to be sleek) and moving parts, than on content. Where's the logo and the originality.
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  • Profile picture of the author Brad Stephens
    I really really like the theme..
    With people saying it needs color, I disagree.
    I think the white works perfectly for a site like this.
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  • Profile picture of the author jaasmit
    The style of your site is cool. You seem to an expert in this. I think success is waiting for you my friend.
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  • Profile picture of the author Nolimit2it
    Interesting entry gate page which I find I like a lot although I did find it a bit confusing when I first came to it.
    Great idea to create a site that is almost a Pinterest-like format but without the viewer interaction.
    Very interesting ideas though and it will be cool to see the finished product.
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  • Profile picture of the author nalakath
    Hi,

    I went through your site. The design is neat and clean. I'd suggest putting a sample ad in the ad space. Also, I saw a lot of 404 errors.

    I also noticed that you are using wordpress. I'd suggest that you update wordpress. This should solve the issue. Also try setting the permalinks back to the default. If the 404 errors disapper, then the problem is with the .htaccess file. This ll be fixed automatically in most cases by the upgrade.

    All the best!
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  • Profile picture of the author RyanTH
    Hi OP,

    The site looks good, but I would try to fill up the right side a bit. When I scroll down, half the page is just blank and it makes the site look like it was built by an amateur. If you fill it up (links, images, Twitter feeds, ebook downloads, related podcasts, etc, etc), it will really give the site a more polished look.

    Good luck!
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  • Profile picture of the author laesvirta
    Looks good, but with my chrome/mac the body text font looks blurry. Maybe if you un-bold it it would have a lighter feel to it.
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  • Profile picture of the author zotown
    i opened it to a parked hostgator page? I would of liked to review it!
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  • Profile picture of the author baker987
    Thank you all very much for your comments! I apologize for not responding sooner...for some reason I did not receive notification that there was a response.

    I appreciate your time and have taken all your comments into consideration..and I will be back with an even better site based on the input!
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    • Profile picture of the author skpearl
      The design is just ok. I would suggest to improve the contrast little bit and the right side is a bit empty
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  • Profile picture of the author KurBear
    The site is nice, but I'm not sure what it does/what it's for? Maybe make that a bit clearer?
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  • Profile picture of the author vCr8
    I love the design, it is neat and it looks really professional. But then again, I must admit it does look like any other redirect pages.
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  • Profile picture of the author Devone
    Design looks very cool looking forward to it
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  • Profile picture of the author mmrumii
    Looks good but so much simple.
    I think you should add more content.
    Then it'll be more beautiful i believe.
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  • Profile picture of the author buldogg
    The page is suspended. Are you all blind?
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  • Profile picture of the author xxmm94
    the site is down bro
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