Looking for advice on trade design

[Gloves 945]

As some of you may know, I spend a lot of time making my trades look fancy, but now I need your help to make them look even better!

 

This is the trade I'm currently working on, I'm pretty much finished with this so now I just need advice on what to change/add/remove etc, anything is helpful, if you think I should change one of the colors, if you don't like one of the design elements or if you just think I should write something different in the trade etc.

 

http://www.tf2outpost.com/trade/20380883#latest

 

Any advice is appreciated, thanks.

[DeatH_D 899]

Start by fixing this

 

[Gloves 945]

Start by fixing this

 

 

Looks like this for me:

http://i.imgur.com/zSXx2bF.png

 

Might be your weird font.

Edited August 5, 2014 by Gloves

[Domino 3,168]

You sooooo shouldnt have asked this! Right here goes:

 

That's screwed for me as well.

 

Top part - too many colours in a small space, specially conflicting colours, I would limit it to two colours max for the highlight. My opinion would be the blue and orange. 

 

Not used to trades - so im not sure what the numbers in green mean - are they the number of items you are looking for, or the price? You seem to have prices at the end of some lines but not others, bit confused. 

 

From the red faded line (tip) down through the list of items, I find this to be neat, concise and the font is lovely. It's easy on the eyes , though I would suggest replacing the green with the blue, as it's a little bright for my taste. Maybe making the red titles the same grey as the 'ctrl+F' text? 

 

I would reverse your 'add me' and 'trade me' lines to:

 

Send me a trade offer... blah blah

Or if required, add me: blah blah.

 

People are more likely to read the first line and click to add you

 

Not a great deal more to say, it's very neat and pretty on the most part, easy on the eyes and simple and clear. Just a few wacky colours and minor things to amend (in my opinion anyway)

 

Hope this helps

[Gloves 945]

Thanks to a 40 minute conversation with Domino I think we're pretty much done.

 

If there's anything you'd like to add feel free to do so!

[+JB. 4,800]

Looks great

 

my trades are all one font, one color, 3 lines lol 

[Se7en 10,762]

I'm banned on Outpost. Just LOL

[AIex 1,292]

why would you want to trade? it always ends like this

[Gloves 945]

why would you want to trade? it always ends like this

 

It's a good deal, you should take it, he even threw in a bonk..

Your SFM work just gets better and better.

[Domino 3,168]

Thanks to a 40 minute conversation with Domino I think we're pretty much done.

 

If there's anything you'd like to add feel free to do so!

 

Now you learnt never to ask a QA tester anything  

[Gloves 945]

Now you learnt never to ask a QA tester anything  

 

No no I'm glad I did. You're the only one with some real advice.

[Canti 386]

Can you apply that to advice on interior design?

[Domino 3,168]

Can you apply that to advice on interior design?

 

Sure 

[fever 9,884]

I think your markup may need correcting Gloves...there is some code in the spoiler below which should fix it