Hi all,
My cousin and brother-in-law are big into cigars. They smoke them like cigarettes these days. They are also big "users" of the web and do lots of research on them online and buy online too. We were chatting recently and they were saying they'd love to set up a website for cigars in ireland, i.e. blog, forum, reviews, etc. So, we decided to get the ball rolling. Registered the domain, came up with a concept last night and I was wondering if ye would be so kind as to throw your critical eye over it.
Cigars.ie Design Concept
Couple of points/questions I'd like to make/ask:
- The site is currently designed to 1024x768 size. For this site, I think we'll need the extra size. I don't want to design it to 100% width but I might load up one css file for 800x600 and another for greater than or equal to 1024x768. Anyone any thoughts on this? Could I get away with the one css at 1024x768. What's the best way to load up the css based on window size - javascript with a fall back method to 800x600 if no js available?
- What do you think of the images being used for the different sections? Don't mind the iStockPhoto bits. Haven't bought them til I know we'll use them.
- Nav: is it too small or does it need to be bolder and spread out more.
- Big Image: what ya think of all the cigars together? Use something else, leave it blank?
- Tagline (top right): what do you think? has some good keywords in there. Anyone got any suggestions?
- The forum: haven't decided on what forum I'd like to use. Thinking of either phpBB or vBulletin. I'm sure I could customise both of these to fit into this site design? Anyone know of a good asp/asp.net one that works like these? Would it be possible to integrate the forum members and the blog members so they only have 1 login to the site?
- General Idea: what do you think of the general idea of the website? It won't be a money maker but with enough visitors, their could be some good adsense, banner ads and potential sales down the line. I'm in from a technical point of view and online sales/marketing. The other 2 get to do all the content and moderation and stuff.
- Any other thoughts you might have!
Thanks in advance for your time guys. Much appreciated!
Dave