Please Review my Gift Website

[Chrispy]

Hi Everyone,

First of all, thank you in advance for anyone who gives me feedback. All I ask is that you please be as harsh/critical/strict as possible with your reviews. That being said, there are a few things I should point out.

The site is being created for a store that my dad owns. He sells collectibles, funny things, and different types of signs.

My idea for the site was to expand on what he has and create a gift store for men using what he already sells and adding things like barware, grillware, bbq equipment, fishing equipment, neons, sports teams merchandise, golf equipment, cigars, and anything else I find.

I bought the domain tinmanstore.com already, changing it tomorrow. I am having someone design those large sliders on the main page.

So what do you guys think?

[donkey123]

Looks nice, great use of colors, I would try and get rid of the empty space at top, I was thinking of an outline of a ribbon with some images inside.mockup.jpg

[shovenose]

Quite well done!
I'm curious, what shopping cart system did you use?
You've done an excellent job integrating it!

One thing is you might want to use a more interesting font in the navigation menu...

[Chrispy]

Looks nice, great use of colors, I would try and get rid of the empty space at top, I was thinking of an outline of a ribbon with some images inside.mockup.jpg

I've been wanting to fill that area as well and I hadn't really found something that I was sold on just yet. I very much like the way the ribbon looks, and the fact that your makeshift one looks good means my designer can probably come up with a good one too.
My concern with the ribbon though, is that it will take attention away from the product category and slider images below. I want the categories to be the thing people focus on the most and I feel like if I have too much going on up top, it might lessen the focus.
Anyone think I'm I wrong in thinking this way?

[Chrispy]

Quite well done!
I'm curious, what shopping cart system did you use?
You've done an excellent job integrating it!

One thing is you might want to use a more interesting font in the navigation menu...

I used Magento free edition, not sure how much I like it yet. I've never had an ecommerce site before so I'm not sure if its good yet either.
Good suggestion, I am going to look into it and see if I can find something usable. Thanks!