gopackin

Ads are pretty overwhelming – I know you’re trying to make some dough off of this site, but you should definitely consider look at some alternative, less in-your-face methods of placing AdWords.

The shadow on the upper beveled edges is too light, and doesn’t match the shadow that’s repeating down the left & right sides of the body.

The ‘Search Other Products Without Leaving This Page’ is a blatant lie. (Or it just doesn’t work correctly.)

I have a fervent contempt for YieldManager ads that’s difficult to articulate – particularly because they do annoying crap like this:
https://content.yieldmanager.edgesuite.net/6105/82999/971225828445306a8ddc48.gif

And last, the ‘Impact’ font is an insult to good design, right up there with fonts like ‘Chicago’, ‘Comic Sans’, and ‘Papyrus’ – If you’re going to use sIFR to replace headlines, at least use something decent like Franklin Gothic Heavy.

If you’re not up on paying for fonts, Josef Pro and Old Sans Black are two rather decent freebie alternatives.

There’s your “brutal” honesty for the day – All the best to you, and keep up the good work!

Thanks for your comments, Steve – I’ll probably do so within the next day or so, and am considering using sIFR to customize the <H1> text and make it stand out a little more.

For now, I’m trying to make well-written content the priority, which racks my brain all to hell since I’m not a backcountry packer or horseman by any stretch of the imagination. (Though the owners are, and will probably write some better stuff once everything has been handed over to them.)

Just for future reference… A white screen when accessing a page (especially under Internet Explorer) almost always indicates an error in the (X)HTML – Namely an unclosed tag or missing > character.

The quick fix? Use the W3C page validation service at https://validator.w3.org/ – Along with semantic markup errors, it’s great for picking out unclosed or incomplete tags, and will generally get you back up and running quickly.

Glad to see resolved the error, either way – Best of luck with your site!