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[Frontier Firearms]

There are still a few things we are working on the website. The search engine is going to be much better then our last one, however it is going to take a few weeks to program it properly. In the mean time you may still get no results for your searches or multiple unrelated items. We should know more in a week about when we can take credit cards directly through the site, as well as we are plugging along with the icons. The flaws with the software are almost all fixed and we are focusing more on the design and layout.

[sadrainbow]

Your website is defenitely much better than the old one.

Only one complaint......the poor quality of the zoomed in photos. You can not really see the details of the product from the photo but indistinctness. thought the zoom-in would give you the real (original) size of the photo.

[ccwcanada]

Your website is defenitely much better than the old one.

Only one complaint......the poor quality of the zoomed in photos. You can not really see the details of the product from the photo but indistinctness. thought the zoom-in would give you the real (original) size of the photo.

Agreed. This is a very nice tweak that greatly improves the feeling of satisfaction when viewing a website: proper full-size images of products. Being able to look at it up close, maximized on your screen, is some sort of psychological satisfaction thing that makes a difference.

There are other companies who have great stores, but on some of their websites, when you click "view full size image", it just shows another image the same size as the small thumbnail, or in your case, a small-window pixelated zoom-in of the small image.

I don't know why it works this way, but little things like this can make a website feel cheap and it doesn't make you feel like coming back or buying off them.

Given that you are almost exclusively an on-line dealer, you'll want to have as fully functioning, satisfying website experience as possible.

[ccwcanada]

Or for example, when it says "More Images" for the product, it is nice to actually have more images. Although I realize that can be a real p.i.t.a. gathering the required images.

The zoom-in thing for the product image your site employs is a fairly unique way of doing it, and it is fairly nice. But I would suggest enlarging the product image window itself by maybe 50% in width and height, so that the product is more "in your face" so that you don't have to squint to see detail...this would be really nice.

[ccwcanada]

Correction: Make the product image "window" 100% larger, I think there's room for it, if you can.

[ccwcanada]

And turn off the "tooltip" string display when hovering the mouse over the image product.

When you do the zoom-in thing the tooltip string often gets in the way of what you're trying to zoom in on, and covers up the product.

Plus it isn't needed anyway...we know what we're looking at, and so we don't need a tooltip string to remind us.


It isn't needed on the product-grid display on main pages either. The product name is listed right there beside the image, so an additional tooltip string appearing on top of the image isn't necessary, and it generally only serves to cover up what you're trying to look at. The cursor just changing into a "finger click" is good enough.

*The tooltip string IS permissible when hovering over the product text on main pages. Sometimes that text gets cut off because of the larger font and limited text space, so in that case it IS good to have a tooltip which will display the entire product description string when you hover over the text.

[ccwcanada]

One last thing: It will be VERY nice if you integrate the CC purchase into the website. That's a huge convenience and ease of purchase/fastness factor. Not sure if you also have user profiles but most places do that, so I presume you will/do.

Whatever you can do to make EMT's more streamlined, easy, and fast, will be a good thing too.

[#1bcshooter]

Search function still sucks