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Well, as Ive said before, its still months away before I get my store online, and I've finally gotten to the step of implementing the actual product on the pages.
So far, I have them laid out 3 designs across by 4 rows down. Although my designs are still being made up, I have downloaded some random fantasy pictures [as my store is a dungeons and dragons niche store] and cut up the pictures into even square boxes, each under neath displaying the name of the shirt, the add to cart button and the price.
At first I had actual tshirt templates up, but I realised even with a picture of the entire tee, the picture would be even MORE smaller to see, so I figure just a box of the actual tee design would be easier.
And man, its amazing what the smallest things can do to a website. I find it very similar to designing a glossy catalogue you would expect to find in your mailbox from a fancy store. Even though the pics arent mine, ive just used them to give me an idea of how the layout of "said designs" would look overall.
Only beef I have is that in a previous discussion in these forums I came to the conclusion that a left sided navigation list running down the side would be easy for anyone to navigate from any page for easy access [as I will have a few design categories the customer can shop for] and heres the prob....
You cant have the pic boxes too big, it squishes the width of the design out too much, and takes the site longer to download each pic, and you cant make them too small otherwise some of that wonderful design is lost in the shrinkage.
I was thinking maybe just maybe theres a way I could code the pages so that the pics would be sorta small but not too small but when you moved your mouse pointer over them the pic in question would jump out at you and then revert back to its original size when the pointer moved away.
That way when a customer had an interest in a particular design, they could 'look closer' in a virtual kind of way to inspect the goods.
What do you all think of this?
So far, I have them laid out 3 designs across by 4 rows down. Although my designs are still being made up, I have downloaded some random fantasy pictures [as my store is a dungeons and dragons niche store] and cut up the pictures into even square boxes, each under neath displaying the name of the shirt, the add to cart button and the price.
At first I had actual tshirt templates up, but I realised even with a picture of the entire tee, the picture would be even MORE smaller to see, so I figure just a box of the actual tee design would be easier.
And man, its amazing what the smallest things can do to a website. I find it very similar to designing a glossy catalogue you would expect to find in your mailbox from a fancy store. Even though the pics arent mine, ive just used them to give me an idea of how the layout of "said designs" would look overall.
Only beef I have is that in a previous discussion in these forums I came to the conclusion that a left sided navigation list running down the side would be easy for anyone to navigate from any page for easy access [as I will have a few design categories the customer can shop for] and heres the prob....
You cant have the pic boxes too big, it squishes the width of the design out too much, and takes the site longer to download each pic, and you cant make them too small otherwise some of that wonderful design is lost in the shrinkage.
I was thinking maybe just maybe theres a way I could code the pages so that the pics would be sorta small but not too small but when you moved your mouse pointer over them the pic in question would jump out at you and then revert back to its original size when the pointer moved away.
That way when a customer had an interest in a particular design, they could 'look closer' in a virtual kind of way to inspect the goods.
What do you all think of this?
