Love it! I think the home page for a lot of sites is underutilized, and giving it a sorta brick and mortar shop vibe is a clever approach since you're always first greeted with what's new...not sure what the confusion is since the navigation is pretty much identical. I also dig the oversized bounding boxes for sale items, I don't think I've ever seen that but it's a nice tone on tone, and a smart work-around versus having to take all new photographs of items on same/complementing backgrounds kinda like what Crust did with the color backdrops.
Thumbs up, Andrew On Friday, February 12, 2021 at 9:30:50 AM UTC-6 Benjamin Kelley wrote: > I've noticed some other sites switching to this theme for their > site/webstore. I find it hard to navigate to find things. > My main complaint is it tends to merge the website and the webstore into a > seamless amalgamation of "site" and I can't tell whether I'm going to be > reading an article/page or looking at a product. > I prefer separate more defined experiences. But that's just how I use > websites and shop. Ever walk into a store and think, is this a store or > someone's house? That's the kinda vibe this style of theme gives me. > That being said, I'll still use it if I have to. > Just my $0.02 > > --ben > > On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 7:49 AM Eric Daume <eric...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> If you use the more common term “brake pads,” the Kool Stops pop right up >> as the first result. >> >> On Friday, February 12, 2021, 'islaysteve' via RBW Owners Bunch < >> rbw-owne...@googlegroups.com> wrote: >> > I was a webmaster (of sorts) for a while, so I know how tough it can be to >>> redesign a page or site. Thanks for your work. I took a quick look >>> around the site just now. I don't mind the general look, but the search >>> function, in particular, needs looking at. I went to "Brakes" and searched >>> for brake shoes. It came back with a few products, including whole >>> brakes. I know that you carry Kool Stop shoes, because I just looked at >>> them recently. But no Kool Stop came back with the first search. When I >>> just searched "Kool Stop", I got the Kool Stop products. So this is not >>> good. I would prefer that there be subcategories, i.e. click on Brakes, >>> then get another menu for the various items people might search for >>> pertaining to Brakes. I hope these comments are helpful. Cheers, Steve >>> >>> On Friday, February 12, 2021 at 5:54:02 AM UTC-5 Garth wrote: >>> >>>> My first desktop impression in navigating it is "awkward". Some large >>>> images, some small. 2 columns only, lots of empty white space. On product >>>> pages the product detail font is oddly small/compressed/faint in relation >>>> to the title font and large images. I find it an awkward . >>>> >>>> >>>> I prefer seeing more items on one page, utilizing the available space >>>> with content, not plain white background. I can see plain white background >>>> anywhere. >>>> >>>> The 3 bar thing for desktop websites is to me not a good look or >>>> function. It seems as web design and function professes to >>>> progress/improve/evolve, it does the very opposite. It's like jumping out >>>> the bedroom window and walking around the block to get to the kitchen. >>>> >>>> "Just the facts" ... so to speak. >>>> >>>> >>>> On Thursday, February 11, 2021 at 11:56:21 PM UTC-5 Dave wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi Everyone, >>>>> >>>>> Just a heads-up that we launched a new theme today for the rivbike.com >>>>> webstore. We enlarged the photos all around, spruced up the homepage, >>>>> improved the search, and updated a number of things for a smoother >>>>> experience on desktop and mobile. We hope you like it! >>>>> >>>>> The other big reveal is that the Blug, our newsy blog that has been on >>>>> Tumblr ever since 2010, has now moved within rivbike.com to >>>>> https://www.rivbike.com/blogs/news. With that move, you now have >>>>> one site for all the latest product updates, news and Grant's blog. 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