Critique Needed Really Bad

Hello Everyone,

I'm making a stab at a new e-commerce store selling posters.
I've made a sample homepage layout and am interested in hearing your opinions on it. If you get a moment, I'd like you to visit the link below and share you thoughts on the following:

Does it establish your trust if you were sincerely interested in buying a poster online?

Does it have a friendly appearance to it?

What do you like / dislike about the layout?

What do you like / dislike about the colors?

Would you feel comfortable buying from a site like this?

General thoughts / opinions etc....

You will all be rewarded in the end for your continued feedback =)

Here's the link - its just a layout and there are no clickable links at this point. Pretend you've never heard of this site and you just stumbled into it from a google search after doing a search for movie posters. Here's the link: www.truefocus.net/posters/


Any other thoughts that come to mind are welcomed.

Much Thanks!!!
I really appreciate it.http://www.truefocus.net/posters/

I think it looks good - nice and simple the way I like it. Are you going to use any flash? Hopefully you'll have 1000's of thumbnails also! - Nice work

Honestly I think its a little boring. The colors dont do much for me and the site lacks continuity. You really need to bring some structure to the site and better intergrate the content. Lastly, the name 'PosterPit' is ok, though honest & trusting arent the first things that come to mind about a business with that name. Keep working on it and let us know.

-Tyler

You definately need to mess with the colors some more. The grey is really boring. Use a theme with some a series of 3 colors all of similar tint but different lightness and saturation. Just push the colors more. Other than that your layout is nice and tight, very professional looking.

I like it, it looks the part. I don't know how much you need flash in it. It looks as if that page could be recreated with just html (minus the wipe effect). I like it, but you don't have to use flash just becuase you know how. Good work so far.

just my two cents

Thanks- I'm taking all of your suggestions very seriously.

I guess with reagards to the color, I picked red to create a spontaneous feeling in the end user so they are motivated to buy. I picked gray as a neutral color so when they are looking at the poster images, they can focus on the poster more rather than being distracted by pretty colors along the sides of the page.

I think it's important for their eyes to be focused on the poster images.

As for the name, I've really been struggling, but I thought the poster pit sounded kinda cool - especially since i'll be targeting 12 - 21 year olds. I also thought about PostersRule.com. All the cliche names are taken.

The whole site will be sricktly html. I see no reason how flash can help my purpose, except maybe to fade out poster images on the homepage.

I am very open to color combinations though. What about a baby blue to replace the gray? Or even flash gold? If I post more samples will that help? Or does anyone know of a good site for color theory critiques?

send me an email, tyler [at] techbinge [dot] com and ill send you a .psd w/ some nice color combos out of my color thoery book.

-Tyler

I agree it needs a little color work. There are a couple of sites below. Good Luck.

A site about color theory
http://poynterextra.org/cp/index.html

Matching HTML colors.
http://www.colormatch.dk/

Hello

I think the site is of simple design and slear layout, the colours do not work together though especially the hyperlinks at the top.

The site possibly could be a little basic, though it is difficult to say as really i would need to see the other pages.

What are your audiance?

Ryan