Polishing the New Storefront

New storefront design is here! love it so far and the new functionality is sweet but I have found a couple of tiny nitpicks:

  • on mobile the landing page is p busy and the slideshow controls + CTA button + hamburger menu + search box obscures the images (see below)
  • filtering by specs should be able to be done with a range instead of selecting each width individually
  • I miss seeing the number of units in stock for stuff, now it only seems to appear when the number is <10

Thanks so much for all the hard work you put into the site as well as all you do for the community @AndreBoulay; I know we’re all super grateful for everything you do!

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Still very much work in progress! Everything mentioned is happening. Soft launch to get propagation going! :blush:

Thanks for the kind words!!!

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I wish it felt less like a generic Shopify storefront.

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Everything is way too big. There’s so many rounded corners. None of this feels like it fits YYE’s branding. It looks like every other ‘modern’ website design from the last 5 years. It also has questionable accessibility, like the weird slideshow that has an arrow cursor if you hover over it.

Edit: also there’s a lot of text that now looks like this

I don’t need to be told that it’s a Breakaway twice. I don’t need to be told that it’s a yoyo trick twice. And I don’t need to be told I’m on the YoYoExpert website in the main part of the page.

Also all of the tutorials have moved but some of them don’t redirect to the new generic ‘page’ URL properly.

Hey Andre I recently made a list of brands that weren’t previously listed on the old side bar.

It’s probably not 100% comprehensive and I don’t know that all of them are still operational, but I could send you a DM with that if that would be helpful in any way.

The link in ‘Get a yo-yo’ takes you to the trick list, and the link in ‘print a trick list’ is just gone.

And all the images which were once on a white background now stick out like a sore thumb because they have opaque white backgrounds.

All of the tricks sections after Expert Part 2 are missing their white background.

Unlike every other part of the website, everything on this page has nice subtle rounded corners, or just sharp corners.

All of the images on this page are in the wrong place.

The shop button is also missing the quick navigation functionality, and because everything is so huge, navigating the site makes my hand hurt from scrolling so much.