I've been thinking about buying a Celticsblog shirt for a while (I've also been thinking about buying a Caped Cod shirt if you're listening Redz, and a Bassthumper CD too
), and I don't know if this has anything to do with Celticsblog, or this is all on CafePress, but I think it's not the most convienant system to navigate through. The first time I ever tried to look to see what the shop had, I thought you guys didn't have much, it was only when I went back and looked again I realized there was really alot, it just took several clicks to get to.
For instance, I click on the Celticsblog Shop, and 3 options pop up: apparel, home and gifts, and fun stuff. So I click on apparel, and then 5 more options pop up, of which I choose Men's Apparel. So I would think this would bring me straight to the t-shirts, after all the picture of apparel was of t-shirts, and the picture of men's apparel was of a t-shirt too, so naturally I'd think I'm at the t-shirt section. Now 3 pictures pop up and I think this is all they have, only 3 shirts!? I don't like any of these options. But wait, that was not pictures of the shirts I could buy, but 3 more option menus: t-shirts, golf shirts, and sweatshirts. So I click on the t-shirt button, and finally I must be at the t-shirt section, because I have now clicked a picture of a t-shirt 3 times, and again I see 5 pictures, none of which is something I really want to buy, but wait I'm still not at the t-shirt section, I'm at yet another option menu: short sleeve, long sleeve, ringer, baseball jersey, sleeveless. So I click short sleeve, and so now I must finally at the t-shirt section right? Wrong! I have to choose from 6 more options: value tees, white tees, light tees, fitted tees, organic tees, dark tees. Do white, light, and dark all really need their own category, couldn't we merge that all into one and just let you pick your own color. White is the only color option there, but Light has 3 color options, and Dark has 8, you're telling me that can't be combined and you just pick from one of 12 colors? So I click on dark tees, and wow you guys have more options that I thought, about 12-18 shirt choices depeneding on which options you have actually navigated through. Maybe I'm just an idiot (well no maybe about it), but I think the whole clicking through all those option menus was a little excessive. Maybe all the other alternatives are actually worse, I don't know, but I do know the first time I ever tried to navigate through, I kept thinking I was looking at what I could buy and thought that there weren't all that many choices, when in actuality I wasn't even looking at the items to purchase yet. It is all written there in black and white, but I think most people don't take the time to read all the words, they just click on the picture and think that's what they're buying, so maybe some people don't realize all the wonderful buying options there are.
