Warmoth Website Refresh

[aarontunes]

Thanks for the feedback everyone.

 

[MikeW]

...but I hate the continually scrolling stuff. It's really annoying.
I'd much rather have the choice to scroll when I want that have it continually moving.

That scrolling business is annoying, no doubt. Doesn't add anything so it seems kinda pointless, adding salt to the wound.

Rotators like this are the way that multiple items can be shown in a given area without the need to reduce or compress images or text. This really is a design best practice and will be used more and more as sites update to modern web designs.

From a marketing perspective, the point is to have the most relevant or timely information in your Rotator. From a software perspective, you give your client the best way to highlight multiple pages in a single space. Win-win from the design perspective really.

 

[Cagey]

I understand the motivation. Doesn't make it any less annoying. You can put directional arrows at either end of a panoramic display and let the user decide when to shift it. It's not such an unusual methodology that it would confuse people.

When the display moves, it draws the eye, so you break concentration. It makes it difficult to take in whatever else is on the page. It's like somebody tapping you on the shoulder while you're trying to explain something to someone else. You can't ignore the interruption, so your presentation is broken.

 

[drewfx]

Not to mention that if your user keeps 100 browser tabs open simultaneously the CPU hit on the client side starts adding up. And of course if they have javascript turned off they get nothing. And javascript is notoriously dodgy when it comes to browser compatibility to begin with.

Now I know designers don't like to worry about what they might perceive to be a small number of people, but those people are potential customers.

I always say web designers should be forced to use 10 year old machines with dial up connections and 640x480 displays and an old browser with cookies/javascript/plugins disabled to test their designs.

 

[mark1178]

Love the mac on the site, except on ipad the main mac could use some tweaking. I'll take some screenshots soon, in a web guy so these things bug me,

 

[Cagey]

I always say web designers should be forced to use 10 year old machines with dial up connections and 640x480 displays and an old browser with cookies/javascript/plugins disabled to test their designs.

Funny you should mention that. I've worked at several design houses where we did exactly that. We had old machines with minimal memory/processors that we'd test things on just to see if they'd work in an acceptable way. Usually they did because we wrote mostly in C, but you sometimes had some serious load times to deal with, particularly with file-intensive applications. No such thing as SSDs back then, unless you were richer than Croesus.

 

[mark1178]

Not to mention that if your user keeps 100 browser tabs open simultaneously the CPU hit on the client side starts adding up. And of course if they have javascript turned off they get nothing. And javascript is notoriously dodgy when it comes to browser compatibility to begin with.

Now I know designers don't like to worry about what they might perceive to be a small number of people, but those people are potential customers.

I always say web designers should be forced to use 10 year old machines with dial up connections and 640x480 displays and an old browser with cookies/javascript/plugins disabled to test their designs.

Sadly it's true. For probably 5 more years the motto will still be "If it doesn't work in IE8, it doesn't work at all"

 

[Mapleg4]

There's something wrong with the beta showcase, the list of the color choices gets cut off when you choose the finishes on the lower part of it.

 

[croquet hoop]

Sadly it's true. For probably 5 more years the motto will still be "If it doesn't work in IE8, it doesn't work at all"

Well, that can't be worse than when it was "If it doesn't work in IE6, it doesn't work at all", can it?

 

[Cederick]

It was better when for example all bodies in the builder where in the same screen instead of having to scroll to get to another body

Otherwise the LOOKS is good but the functionality is not really any better

 

[Kostas]

I noticed the latest option to look & search in the showcase is missing. I preferred it.

 

[Cederick]

It should be possible to see Floyd necks in the showcase, as well as only stainless steel ones. (maybe even as specific as SS6100 for example).

While it works using ctrl-F and typing "ss6" or "prep" or "floyd" I still think it should be able to search easier for that stuff.

 

[Cederick]

What I said above is still an important question for me  :icon_biggrin:
Any ideas why it's NOT possible to search for floyd preps and actually specific fret types and sizes?

 

[Cagey]

This is strictly a wild-assed guess, but Warmoth doesn't normally fret or do nut prep on speculative necks. I suspect that on the odd occasion where you see one, it's something somebody reneged on or returned. As such, they shouldn't be something you can search for, because in a perfect world they wouldn't exist.

 

[RedHotFuzz]

I'm new to Warmoth (just ordered my first bass build today) but I really like the website. It's better than 90% of the guitar manufacturers websites out there. The guitar biz is pretty bleak for good website design. Many of them look like something from the 90s.

Keep up the good work Warmoth!

 

[Cederick]

This is strictly a wild-assed guess, but Warmoth doesn't normally fret or do nut prep on speculative necks. I suspect that on the odd occasion where you see one, it's something somebody reneged on or returned. As such, they shouldn't be something you can search for, because in a perfect world they wouldn't exist.

That sounds reasonable, in that case, I will keep looking hard for these (not that can afford it all, but looking for stuff and dreaming a bit is actually quite fun too).

Good thing it's possible to floyd prep unfinished necks too  :glasses9: