New Look Site

Ok, the new look site is live; Press Ctrl F5 to refresh your browser if it does not show the new layout.

Please have a look through if you have the time and do let us know here if you find any issues, or have feedback (positive or negative).

If you can think of a better layout for menus, or think something is missing... let us know here.

As you can see, we've featured some of the GOTY entries in the Home Page slider. I will try and keep this fairly fresh and feature new, completed builds, and mix up the kit styles.

As mentioned before, there's always issues with a changeover, so please bear with us while we address these.

One issue: If you placed an order between the 17th and today, it will be missing. Rest assured, we have it and, it if it hasn't been shipped yet, it will be, or the kit will be on backorder.

While the Site looks different (hopefully an improvement), much of the upgrade is in the back end, so it should be faster and more responsive.

Down the track, we will have more options for Product Bundles, Upgrades, and Recommended Add-ons.

Hope you like the new look.

Looks good, Adam, and it does load faster.

Pretty profesh mate.

Defiantly loads quicker for me. Looks swish, I was reaching for my wallet before I knew it. :D

Looks good.

One 'exception' for me - on the tools page none of the images for the BABICZ items are visible.

I like it and I'm an old bloke who usually resists change so it must actually be FANTASTIC ;)

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Originally Posted by Rabbitz

Looks good.

One 'exception' for me - on the tools page none of the images for the BABICZ items are visible.

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Thanks Rabbitz, you just found an error. Those Babicz items and the other items on that page should be in Spare Parts, not Tools.

No, we don't have pics for the babicz spare parts... it's been on my To Do List for a few months... ok over 12 months.

Looks great Adam and much easier to use and navigate.

Damn that looks good. Nice job man.
Loving pretty much everything about it. The home page just looks awesome. And all the pages are pretty fresh, which I like.
Looking at it again, my only gripe is the guitars shown on the homepage slider are zoomed in too much because of the width of the slider (had a bit of a battle with that myself on my own site, good fun). You could get around it by pushing a white or black border or something around the picture to make it wider, and fit into the frame nicely, which would get the whole guitar in the picture, and looking shmick.

I feel like ideally for new kits that come out, do a fancy shoot with a black background like the first guitar shown on the homepage has. Then show that on a small slider down the bottom for 'new kits', so the whole front page has some fancy looking shots kinda thing. Then when you go to the listing, have the normal shots. More work, but makes those teasers look delicious

Great improvement Adam, it loads nice n quick too!

It got a "wow" out of me.

Very swish, I must keep igor away from it.

Very late to this party, but yeah as others have said it looks great and definitely loads faster.

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Originally Posted by Mr.Drifter

Damn that looks good. Nice job man.
Loving pretty much everything about it. The home page just looks awesome. And all the pages are pretty fresh, which I like.
Looking at it again, my only gripe is the guitars shown on the homepage slider are zoomed in too much because of the width of the slider (had a bit of a battle with that myself on my own site, good fun). You could get around it by pushing a white or black border or something around the picture to make it wider, and fit into the frame nicely, which would get the whole guitar in the picture, and looking shmick.

I feel like ideally for new kits that come out, do a fancy shoot with a black background like the first guitar shown on the homepage has. Then show that on a small slider down the bottom for 'new kits', so the whole front page has some fancy looking shots kinda thing. Then when you go to the listing, have the normal shots. More work, but makes those teasers look delicious

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Thanks for the feedback Mr Drifter... I was being a bit "Arty" by zooming in on some of the images... plus I had to so the text would be readable.

Good idea about the new kits shot on a black background... but yes, that is a lot more work for yours truly. I think it might be worth the effort though.

I've seen other companies do "Mock Up" (partly assembled) shots on a black background and that does look good.

I wonder if it'd be worth adding a 'what members of the community have done with this guitar' to the kit area, then with a few pics from the forums of finished guitars of that kit, so somebody can see the potential they have, if they haven't already. Whether it's from somebody just putting it together, or somebody going absolutely ham and modding the tits off it.
Again, more work, but another area that could give people ideas and go 'oof'

Love the look of the new webpage, looks cool.

Glad to be of service...

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I wonder if it'd be worth adding a 'what members of the community have done with this guitar' to the kit area, then with a few pics from the forums of finished guitars of that kit, so somebody can see the potential they have, if they haven't already. Whether it's from somebody just putting it together, or somebody going absolutely ham and modding the tits off it.
Again, more work, but another area that could give people ideas and go 'oof'

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Yep, we have this on the list and just working out the best way to do it.

The "Wish List" is very long.

From the home page everything looks in order, but if you click on on any other page and scroll to the bottom, thing are a bit all over the place. There are headings for sections of the site with links underneath them that don't match. For example, the heading for the Babicz stuff lists strings and a pick up. Guitar of the Month lists a bunch of Floyd Rose trems.

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From the home page everything looks in order, but if you click on on any other page and scroll to the bottom, thing are a bit all over the place. There are headings for sections of the site with links underneath them that don't match. For example, the heading for the Babicz stuff lists strings and a pick up. Guitar of the Month lists a bunch of Floyd Rose trems.

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Looks ok to me using Chrome as the browser....

Here's what I see at the bottom of one of the kit pages. Win10, Chrome browser:

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Yes, I get that too, Win 10 and Firefox.

You don't have to look far, first kit on the ST list.

https://www.pitbullguitars.com/shop/...ony-fretboard/

Thanks for picking this up, I'll get the lads onto this on Monday. I really don't have any Jumpsuits in stock, I'd hate for some to be disappointed.

C'mon Adam! What's Glam Rock without a jumpsuit!!!!

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Originally Posted by Simon Barden

Yes, I get that too, Win 10 and Firefox.

You don't have to look far, first kit on the ST list.

https://www.pitbullguitars.com/shop/...ony-fretboard/

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Must be windows 10 then...works fine with 7.... not checked on my newer computer running 10

I was bang up for the $1 test kit. Right within my budget!

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Originally Posted by chrissyinbkk

Must be windows 10 then...works fine with 7.... not checked on my newer computer running 10

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Have you scrolled all the way to the bottom of the page?

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Have you scrolled all the way to the bottom of the page?

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yep, ok for me...its these modern computers you are all using.... stick with the old guns...

My PC is 10 years old!

I'm still disappointed about the news on the jumpsuits ☹️

Further to Mr Drifter's (and others) comments, about black background "glamour shots", I've been playing around with the Black Background look.

One issue we've got is that our new Theme is set up for Portrait photos (for mobile viewing), not the landscape photos we have been using.

I had a crack at an ES-1 in Portrait on a Black background.

Let me know what you think, Mr Drifter and others.

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Still need to play around with lighting and stuff, but what do you think about the layout.

I did try a Mock build shot and it looked terrible.

For me it makes it a lot harder to see the parts for that all-in-one style photo. Might work on bodies only and maple necks, but less sure about it with Blackwood necks.

if you knock the contrast back quite a bit the black will work. My monitor is calibrated a bit darker than most peoples , this looks pretty good on mine.
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But then it almost looks B&W, well on my screen it does.

I think that looks pretty rad in the original. Doesn't need much changing on my screen

It'll be tricky to light well and not have some kind of light bounce off the black. I think the white backgrounded stuff looks fine.

I think is will be easier for customers to see with a light background. Especially for people using phones to access the site. The black swallows everything in smaller pictures.

Thanks guys, will keep having a play. I prefer the black for aesthetics, but the white works better for functionality.

This works.

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I like this so much it's going on the home page slider. I think it was a mistake to not have a Kit as the first image people see... as much as I love Simon's Green IB-7.

Oh damn, that is nice. That's really nice