Yea I wasn't quite sure if I want to keep HAWGBUSTER the home link or not. Maybe what I can do is put another text link below it that says Home but still have the image point to index.
Reason I have that is because each category button is going to link to a page - I'm going to have a Products page that focuses on all the products with links to the sub-pages. And I will have Shopping and Fun Stuff pages too. This is to intentionally break the linear page layout, create a mild hierarchy. Will improve search engine rankings as well increase content richness. I actually had something like this a few site designs back but my menu system wasn't laid out well so it wasn't effective.
When I originally started working on a Members page, I didn't like how it was thrown together so I pulled it apart into seperate pages, but if I redo it as the Fun Stuff page then that gives someone a Home Page if they want it.
Next I'm going to have to change the colors and header in the forum... no hurry though since nobody seems to use it anyway.  I did sign up with 2checkout.com about a month ago, but I don't know if I'm going to go through with that for retail orders becuase of the statistically high occurance of chargebacks vendors experience through them. I am working out a plan with the owner and will be setting up a special section on the site just for wholesalers/vendors, so they can order through the site in bulk at wholesale prices. that's what I'll use 2checkout for since I'm not as worried about chargebacks, I will have more direct communication with those people. I'm probably just going to install a SSL certificate on the site and create a generic storefront for retail orders and Joe will just process them himself. |
