Amazon Store, critique wanted
 

I just finished the first pass on an Amazon store for one of my sites:

http://www.discusscareers.com/amazon_store.php

I'm going to be adding functionality to allow selection of different categories (only ones that I define, though), different sorts, and the ability to add to your Amazon cart right from that page.

Have a look, let me know what you think!

The more I hack on vB, the easier it is... ;-)

I dont lkie the fact that theirs two big tables (guest message adn google add) between the navigation and main forum content. It seems a little vague and boring. Try adding some more color ro changing color scheme.

I don't like the portal, the tables seem very unorganised and not ordered in any way. Plus they're of varying widths too, which doesn't look good.

To your forums, you have too many forums. ;) Half don't even have posts in them! Condense down to 10 I'd say, and expand as you get more activity.

Also, some unknown large gap between your guest table and forum list, might wanna rid of that.

I don't think your using your space in a very organized manner. Instead of showing the description of the book next to it's image, you can just have the images and titles of the books all in neat rows and columns. Once a book is clicked, it's own table it brought up with additional information.

Varying widths? What browser are you using? I'm using IE & Firefox, and the tables are all the same size.

Ok, good idea.

I'm not seeing that, either. There's an Adsense block under the "Guest" block, are you seeing that?

Thanks for taking the time...

Yeah, I was thinking about doing that myself, that'd probably make more sense.

Thanks for the critique.

It's the welcome guest table thats out of proportion to the other tables.

Oh, ok. I've gotten rid of it, I've always hated that and forgot all about it. ;-)

I've changed it so a DHTML popup is displayed for 10 seconds (only once) when guests visit the site.

I've made some changes:

1 - The main Amazon page doesn't show the detail of each item any more. Clicking on an item will bring the user to a detail page with more information about the item.

2 - On all of the Amazon pages I've removed the top Adsense block, so only the one on the left hand side of the Amazon table is displayed.

How's it look, any better now?

I'm still working on the shopping cart part of it, so users will be able to add an item to their cart without having to visit Amazon.

http://www.discusscareers.com/amazon_store.php

1) Your forum design is nothing to be proud of.
But in the same turn, it's nothing to be ashamed of. Simplicity rules in my book.


2) Here's a tip from the owner of vBulletin:3) "This operation timed out when attemping to contact www.discusscareers.com"
Site is slow. Server sucks.

For these reasons I will be unable to complete this review.

How did you set that up? I need something like that for 3.5!

I like this new setup you have it is VERY professional and well done A++