Template Underground - Site for graphic artists

[MrRoyce]

Website URL: http://www.templateunderground.com

Template:  Customized

Additional Extensions (Components, Modules, Plug ins): virtuemart, flash rotator

Custom Development: Some VM customization, the site is mostly static pages that display templates available for purchase

Other Features: e-commerce, pdf-word converter

Three (at least) specific areas of my site that I'd like feedback on (design, code, graphics, etc.):  Design, Usability, Overall Impression

Additional Comments:  Hi there, this is a site for graphic artists that want to get InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Word, etc templates.  We will evenutally offer services, but the primary focus is downloading templates.  Looking for a better flash rotator for main page - I know the birthday banner is a poor one to start off with.  We will evenutally make the banners more of a "story" and description for the site. 

EDIT - The "graphics" menu item is the most filled out to date.  The others have a handful of items or is empty.  We are madly building content,  but gotta sleep sometime!

[matthewhayashida]

Looks very nice. The simplicity is great. All you need is to finish the content. Didi you use a component for the images on the graphics page?

Great site and good luck.

[MrRoyce]

Thanks for the compliment.  No, there was no component used, I have a template that makes it a bit easier, but it is still a bit tedious to use.  As usual, its all about getting content and we are struggling to define exactly what we will provide.

[tcraw1010]

Might I ask which script/module you use for the item image rollover effect with you click on one of the products - such as the business cards? (i.e. when you mouseover one of the business cards, an image of it appears to the left).

[MrRoyce]

It's a combination of a this:

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function YY_showHideLayers(L2show, L2hide) {

  if (document.layers){ //ns
    for (i=0; i<(document.layers.length); i++){
      if (document.layers[i].name.search(L2hide) != -1){document.layers[i].visibility = 'hide';}
      if (document.layers[i].name.search(L2show) != -1){document.layers[i].visibility = 'show';}
    }
  }else
  if (document.all != null){ //ie
    var yydiv = document.all.tags("DIV");
    for (i=0; i<(yydiv.length); i++){
      if (yydiv[i]) {var yydivname = yydiv[i].id;} else {var yydivname = '';}
      if (yydivname.search(L2hide) != -1) document.all[yydivname].style.visibility = 'hidden';
      if (yydivname.search(L2show) != -1) document.all[yydivname].style.visibility = 'visible';
        }
  }else
  if (document.getElementById){ //mz
    var yydiv = document.getElementsByTagName("DIV");
    for (i=0; i<(yydiv.length); i++){
      if (yydiv[i]) {var yydivname = yydiv[i].id;} else {var yydivname = '';}
      if (yydivname.search(L2hide) != -1) document.getElementById(yydivname).style.visibility = 'hidden';
      if (yydivname.search(L2show) != -1) document.getElementById(yydivname).style.visibility = 'visible';
    }
  }
}

and this:

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onmouseover="YY_showHideLayers('1','amx')" onmouseout="YY_showHideLayers('9','amx')">

and some funky FF browser bug stuff 

[armstead]

Looks great, and a useful sevice.

One comment is that it seems to be rather, er, enigmatic, in terms of who you are and what you offer. Perhaps a short text paragraph somewhere on the front page just to fill out what you already have.