www.soldit.ie Please Critique!

It is not obvious wher or how i create an account from the Homepage.
More social links needed i.e. twitter etc.
Clicking the Help button takes me to a very red page just full of text.
The Help Topics button on the Help page doesnt seem to have functionality.
Home button needed in the Help section
moving cursor over the "search for" word on the home page makes other items underlined then not underlined once moved.
Clicking on "Place Ad" on right hand side doesnt do anything
I dont see a place listing payment types,Laser ,Credit Card etc.

You're entering a very competitive and already dominated area. You have a chicken and egg problem - nobody is going to put up ads on an empty directory that is unlikely to get them any sales, and nobody is going to buy from a directory if there aren't any items for sale!

If you can offer something the others can't, you should build the message of the site around that. Otherwise I'd be very careful with how much more time or money you're investing in this.

Probably not what you want to hear, but there you go.

padraig341 wrote: »

Clinton thanks for your comments, the "Place Ad" button seem to work fine for me could you possibly try again? Your other comments are duly noted and exactly the type of thing Im looking for.....Thank you. James I think your comment is hardly constructive or helpful. Of course all classifieds will be judged by the DoneDeal yardstick but I am looking for some input not just a put down.

Hi

With regards the Place Ad icon(red box) i have just noticed that it does work,however at a glance it just looks like it refresh's the page,i would suggest that when the Place Ad button is used that there is more of a significant change on the page.
I would also suggest that your Logo form part of all pages so that it provides a link back to the home page.

due to recent copyright changes and a story i heard the other day,i hope you have permission to use the images that you haves used on the home page.
Having selected the Auto notify button the page you are brought to seems a little cluttered and onesided,too much of the text is underlined and i think it should be spread more to the right hand side to make it look less congetsed on the left.

Rgds

Clinton

The dark background gives it a very unprofessional feel. I always tend to stay with the bright colours.
The "Place An Ad" & "Manage My Ads" buttons are pretty poor. The font does work well there, and just seems to big
SoldIt.ie logo could do with some work, make it a bit more professional again, just doesn't seem right for this type of website. It also seems to be to large compared to other items on your website.
I don't see any contact details if someone has a problem with their ad or something? Maybe I'm just missing that.
Personally, I don't think the red sits very well.
On the ad page itself, the return to search button takes up a full column, when it really doesn't need to. Maybe place an advert along the site with it, something that will at least fill the huge empty space.

Overall, I think you need to re-think your design if you want to get into such a highly populated market.

Look at other advertisement (adverts, donedeal, autotrader) all have great designs - Some allow you to search by area, make, model, year etc

Small white text on a black or dark background is hard to read. You may need to look at that design on a number of devices and browsers.

Regards...jmcc

white writing on black background burns my retina.

If you neutralized the background image and made the white fonts grey but keeping the same overlay concept, you wouldn't be warding people off.

At the end of the day, your customers wont really care about the design but they will care about how easy to use the site is (navigation) and the cars themselves.

This is now the third thread for this site.

If you had simply updated one of the pre-existing threads contributors could at least get a feel for what changes have been made along the way.