Need Help Testing New Pages On Site...
 

I'm planning on uploading all of these tonite, please help me out by taking a look at these, and let me know if you see any problems...

http://www.pelicanparts.com/catalog/shopcart/911M/POR_911M_brakes_pg1.htm

Broken images, links bad, something screwy, etc. It should work fine on Netscape, although the font size is a bit small (I have that on my list).

Thanks!

-Wayne

Why is the right side "A" front caliper more expensive than the left? Is this a typo? I ask because I notice that the carrera calipers are the same price for either side. Same thing for the listing of the rears.

Looks good on both IE 6 and Mozilla. I like the design a lot!

Dunno - this is from the factory pricing - one must wear out faster than the other or something like that.

Thanks,

Wayne

Looks good Wayne. When you first talked about refreshing the site, I though naw don't change a good thing. But now I can see how it has become dated.

My only other question is you mentioned something about 2004 being the year of the parts wizard. Are you still going this way and just not with brakes? Or will we see something later?

Yes, 2004 should bring about a wizard for each catalog section:

http://www.pelicanparts.com/catalog/shopcart/911M_catalog.htm

I've got a sharp, new guy with lots of enthusiasm and ideas (Eugene), and as soon as he earns his stripes on making updates and changes (and adding all of those new products we're currently missing), he'll be starting on making Wizards!

See, I told you guys I wasn't going to forget about the Porsche side (after working on DriveWerks).

:)

-Wayne

no tabs and rollovers! Huzzah!

Looks good. I didn't get anything busted...

Don't count your chickens - the tabs and rollovers are still coming in the future. It's just that the pages that the tabs and rollovers go to aren't created yet.

I'm going to be redesigning the whole site over the next few months. Like painting your house, the site will slowly change here and there, one day at a time. This catalog section is the first thing that needs to be done. Then, we'll start working on the main pages, and in-between, the search engine. Finally, the last thing will probably be the home page.

-Wayne

Wayne, what about the left side of this:

Pelican Parts Maintenance Kits
Back to Main

TuneUp 911
TuneUp 911
TuneUp 911

Why are all of these the same? Seems strange to me.

I also received this after checking out an empty shopping cart:


ERROR!!! PAGE NOT FOUND!!!
If you have received this message, it means that we have goofed up, and have a missing link somewhere in our site! Please help by emailing us and letting us know where the problem is. With more than 1000 pages, and more than 10,000 photos on this site, it's easy to make mistakes. Thanks for your help, and your patience!

Select Here to Send us some Email!


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Pelican Parts

Return back to our home page.

Older page - this will be much clearer tonite...

You coming out on Jan 1st?

-Wayne

To TRE's thingy? I don't know. Not likely. I would like to though.

I embraced my lesbian sexuality years ago.

When I click on the photo for the Turbo master cylinder, I get this image:

http://www.pelicanparts.com/catalog/...1_mascyl77.jpg

i like the new method to flip pages at the bottom. should be quicker, although it looks like you have everything covered on the lefts side. funny thing considering i was planning on ordering some brake stuff tonight.

How do you get to your Project List from the new pages? On the old pages there was a prominent link from the bottom of all the catalog pages, but I don't see anything on the new one.

I also still think "Back" roadsign should be "Previous" instead so people won't get that confused with the back button.

Cool! Well, if you guys are giving the big thumbs up, then I will start the generation and upload process for the rest of the catalog.

Thanks again for your feedback and support!

-Wayne

Two very good comments. I hadn't thought about the project list. I will add some links in there somewhere.

I am working on the back button / previous page thing. I think I will change the wording...

Thanks,

Wayne

Ed is spot on. The cart and project list should be *very* easy to find on every page, as should the search box.

man just think of the consultant fees you're saving. Of course that is offset by the bbs overhead, but hey, you only live once.

But we're more fun than consultants. ;)

Looks fine on I.E.
Perf. Prod. used to list the L and R alloy caliper at two slightly different prices. Perhaps after one is side is developed the other side is a little bit cheaper to tool up.

Yes one negative - popups (one at least) they are evil, don't use them. If I am buying parts why would I want to look at magazines?, How about other related parts or the always fun: other people that have purchased these have also purchased blah blah blah...

My two cents...invoice is in the mail ;)

That popup only comes at the end, when you are checking out - we sell a lot of magazines when people toss them into their order...

-Wayne

No picture for Coupe Rear Window Seal item #28 in the "911 & Carrera Seals & Weatherstripping" section.

Yes, leave it to me to find the ONE thing missing...
I guess I could walk out to the garage and look at my seal but its too darn cold outside here.

-BG

Looks fantastic Wayne. Great job. My wife has a small site that I built. I'm a technical guy (run Cisco stuff for a living), but I hate anything remotely like programming. I know how long it took me to make my wifes pages with maybe 150-200 items, I can't imagine the work you must put in with what I can only guess must be several thousand sku's.

Great job, thanks.

Also icon images of seals (click to enlarge) do not launch or enlarge.

Looks good on OSX Safari.

Nice, dense design. No nonsense.

Is there a way to make the quick links on the side show where you are in the pages?

For example, when you are on page 3, it would highlight the related quicklinks, so you would know if you need to keep going to get to whatever you're looking for.

OK, here's a nit...

What's the light source on the page? The use of drop-shadows is to add the illusion of depth. This just makes no sense.

http://www.pelicanparts.com/graphics/back.gifhttp://www.pelicanparts.com/graphics/next.gif

Wayne, looks great....clear product pics especially. Any way to include a link to a diagram (if available)? This may help a customer visualize the project and prompt them to order "while I'm in there" stuff.

Do you have a pop-up blocker? They are designed to open in a new window.

-Wayne

Most products have links to diagrams or pics?

-Wayne

Good point, I just put this on my list to fix. I was being lazy here...

-Wayne

Hmm, yes I could do that, but I'm not sure exactly what benefit that would give? Can you explain what you mean a bit more?

-Wayne

Nearly 100% sorted for Firebird, props to you Wayne ;)

Not sure what this (mozilla specific) black line is though:

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1072805975.jpg

When I posted that, I was under the mistaken impression that everything on the left was everything in the section, so when you clicked on a page, you would see where you were in listing. I think something changed (functionally) between the old version and the new version, I can't put my finger on it.

I was looking at the seals as well and it seems that there is stuff missing between the numbers 40-something and 70 something. I couldn't find the side seals for my Targa.

Sorry, I didn't explain well enough. I meant a link to an exploded view where the referenced part is part of an assembly in the diagram. You'd be able to use the same diagram for any of the parts in the assembly.

I suggest this because many time I've discovered parts are missing, installed improperly after referencing either another assembly or a diagram.