16 photos for every item!
I'm also starting to roll out my 16 image script that eventually i hope to add to most product descriptions - jeeeez thats a lot of photos to tweak, crop, resize, watermark, upload etc! For some items i don't have enough photos so i've done 8 and 12 image versions of it too. At the time of writing this, i've done about half of the CB's, so follow the link above and see what you think.
As i'm typing this (1.30am Friday), the site has just come back online after around 19 hours of downtime! Thanks to the efforts of the staff at our hosts, things are back to normal but apologies to anyone who tried to visit this site between 5.30am and midnight yesturday - believe me it was worse for us than it was for you... Thursday tends to be a very busy day with people ordering stuff for delivery on Friday ready for fitting/use over the weekend!
Thanks to everyone who sent messages via facebook and the site's contact page about the proposed photo viewer for the products, as mentioned in my last blog post - the general consensus is that it works for everyone and fits MOST peoples browsers ok, so i'm going to start rolling it out for all products as soon as i get the chance.
It's pretty labour intensive resizing and cropping all the photos etc and i have thousands to put up so its a bit of a mammoth task i've made myself!
I'd still be interested to hear any comments about it, especially if something doesn't work for you so if you've already viewed it please see the blog posting from 11th May and have a look.
I've been a bit remiss by not updating the £20 a month voucher giveaway, for photos page with information about the winners - it's probably been putting people off sending in photos! Anyway its done now and soon they'll be May's winner to annouce... sometimes it's pretty hard to decide the winner as some people do send in some cracking photos, but i just stick to my points system and see who comes out on top!
I've just finished a new bit of coding which (if it works for everyone) i will be rolling out across the site... it's an image gallery showing 16 product photos, and it should preload the images (so theres no delay when you're switching between them) and change the images when you move your mouse over the thumbnail pics.
Please ignore the text that say "click on the small pictures to view them larger" - it should work without the need to click them!
2/ do the images change as you move your mouse over them?
4/ any comments on this way of showing product photos... good... bad ?
I've now got dozens of new products to add to this site including quite a few "4x4cb exclusives" - products you won't find anywhere else but here... items we've imported or had made for us... watch this space over the coming weeks as i'm going to switch emphasis to getting this on here pretty soon.
At last, this radio is now back in stock... we've been waiting months for it to come back in - i was starting to think the newly introduced Midland 278 was going to be it's replacement!
I've finally updated this page, i hadn't updated it with the winners of the vouchers for months!
Some new products are starting to make their way onto the site, although there will be many many more cool and useful accessories and some really nice new radios being put on very soon.
I've just added the new Midland, the 278 to the site here and will shortly be adding the Intek M-760, Midland 220, Cobra 19DX IV EU and the Maxon CM70 - theres also a removable front radio made by Albrecht which we have in stock but not on the site yet.
Regular readers will have noticed the change to this blog - it's now in three categories, that are viewable seperately, with the main blog page having all the blogs together.
OK, i'm probably making work for myself here but i wanted to seperate them, and be able to go into some of the more technical aspects of this sites development without making everyone read it - if you just want to read about the sites development, you can, if you just want to read about general CB stuff, you can, likewise my personal blog. Hopefully it'll work out well, but only if i get around to posting regularly!
A new "In Stock/Out of Stock" and "Delivery Via:" box for each product which can be updated in real time - just to provide details of how an item is sent (and how quickly) and to imform of stock situation - out of stocks will have expected restocking date info.
Related products box, showing photo, title and short description of 6 items that are related to the product who's listing is being viewed, along with more info and add to basket buttons.
Many other subtle improvements and ideas being worked on too.