please review my McCainMcSucks blog

[gralmy]

Please keep in mind that this design is not yet live. I'll need to upload the actual blog entries, but you'll get a good idea of where I'm going with it. Comments on the design...NOT THE CONTENT...are welcome! I haven't added the footer yet, nor are the "archives" added. Just starting on the new design and would like feedback before I continue. Here is the link......John McCain Sucks!

[wige]

Hmm... I think McDonald's might have a McProblem with the site title...

Beyond that, I would flesh out the order page. Right now, it has no navigation links so that a user can return to the blog. The url indicates the page is a part of the blog, but the formatting make it look like it is hosted elsewhere. It's hard enough to get a customer to trust a blog site, it is even harder to get that customer to trust a page that doesn't look like part of the blogger's site if that page is not hosted on Google checkout or some other payment site the user already trusts.

[gralmy]

I don't think McDs can do anything about the site. They don't have a copywrite on "Mc". The "buy the t-shirt" thing will, of course, look like the rest of the site. Yeah...all of the navigation and links will be corrected when I'm satisfied with the design. I was looking for feedback on the basic layout, look, etc.

I haven't hosted McCainMcSucks yet, although I do own the .com. I'm just building it on my regular site. I'm sort of investigating the possibilities right now to see if it would be worth my time.

[cw1865]

Ironically it will only be worth your time if he were to win the election which would give you four years to build the site and market the shirts!

Other than that it is fine. Obviously your site readers will most likely be pro-Obama and you should probably consider selling pro-Obama apparel as a cross-sell.

[austin video production 1]

I think you should downsize the photo on the right and give more screen real estate to the actual blog posts.