What I have been working on lately....

TLRam1 · Post by **TLRam1** » Wed Apr 08, 2009 9:53 pm

Several months of work, unable to post for opinions while it was opened and closed as needed for maintenance, last night we lost a lot of the site, my brother had to frantically rebuild. It still might be closed for periods of time but think I'm ok to post for your review. Tons left to be done as the process moves forward. Climax Riding Gear is the name.

What do you think?

What product to add?

www.cli-maxridinggear.com

jkevinlilly · Post by **jkevinlilly** » Thu Apr 09, 2009 3:31 am

Good luck with it Terry.

Kevin

Suzukidave · Post by **Suzukidave** » Thu Apr 09, 2009 6:41 am

The site is easy to get around on and good prices .. looks like a winner to me

tz375 · Post by **tz375** » Thu Apr 09, 2009 7:02 am

Terry, that looks really good. The template is fine. I would suggest that your brother grab a copy of the site code, page by page in case it crashes.

If he has no web authoring tools, then open a word document for each page, open the site, View (page) source and cut and paste each page into the blank Word document and save it. Hopefully Word won't decide to reformat it for you!

of course all of the above assumes that the site allows you to cut and paste HTML

Looking good.

Post by **Suzsmokeyallan** » Thu Apr 09, 2009 8:40 am

Hey Terry its good a lot going for it, great outlay and the prices are sweet too.
I wish i had a pair of those bifocal biker sunglasses.. super cool.

TLRam1 · Post by **TLRam1** » Thu Apr 09, 2009 8:42 am

Thanks for the comments!

TZ, good idea, since you mentioned this I looked into this further, and thinking the same as you, what I am learning is to save into Note Pad for the reasons you stated that Word would probably reformat where Note Pad would be closer to the same if not the exact copy. Sounds like you are familiar with some of the workings on the backside.

We both liked the clean look of the template, wanted a customer friendly return policy (I think we have that), competitive pricing - your sources are out to make the most from you so that takes a bit of negotiating to secure better deals for customers (that will be an on going process), the site will be added to continuously, all of this is learn as you go.

It takes a Ton of time to add a product, securing a photos, resizing, descriptions, meta tags for each, search words for each, matching our part numbers to the sources, getting your cost info together, etc. Not complaining, like these bikes, more involved than you thought, we can all relate to that.

The photo at the top will change periodically, currently we have one from a trip in Arkansas.

Post by **oldjapanesebikes** » Thu Apr 09, 2009 9:38 am

TLRam1 wrote: TZ, good idea, since you mentioned this I looked into this further, and thinking the same as you, what I am learning is to save into Note Pad for the reasons you stated that Word would probably reformat where Note Pad would be closer to the same if not the exact copy. Sounds like you are familiar with some of the workings on the backside.
complaining, like these bikes, more involved than you thought, we can all relate to that.

You can also usually save each page as an HTML file directly from your browser - in Chrome and Firefox its via a 'Ctrl+S' or just off one of the utilities menus. I don't use Microsoft's Internet Explorer, but would assume it does the same thing. Once you have the saved page, then often you can do a view source to see the under laying code.

TLRam1 · Post by **TLRam1** » Thu Apr 09, 2009 1:29 pm

oldjapanesebikes wrote:
You can also usually save each page as an HTML file directly from your browser - in Chrome and Firefox its via a 'Ctrl+S' or just off one of the utilities menus. I don't use Microsoft's Internet Explorer, but would assume it does the same thing. Once you have the saved page, then often you can do a view source to see the under laying code.

Ian I will give that a shot, I use FireFox, I will play around with that this week.

tz375 · Post by **tz375** » Thu Apr 09, 2009 2:17 pm

Ian, great idea. Then open it in notepad to preserve the code.

Terry, It's good to spend time on the rear end from time to time. Gives a different perspective - on web design.

Yes, we have done a bunch of simple sites and created catalogs of templates. Even created a series of templates for a UK accounting firm at one time - a long time ago.