I like the new Magento based site , like any large number of items
store it takes time to set it up.

Good job Ron !

Now what about an Ipad App :)

Nick

On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 8:48 AM, The Bus Depot <vanagon@busdepot.com> wrote:
>> The new website sucks. Can't search
>> anything or find things. It takes longer too.
>
>> I love it.
>
>
> This seems typical of the responses I've been getting - some people like the
> site more, some less.
>
> If you haven't been there lately you might have missed a lot of
> improvements. There are incremental changes occurring almost daily, so you
> may find the site a little easier to use each time you visit. Just this week
> alone we made reduced average search times from an unacceptable 15 seconds
> down to 5 seconds.  (Still tweaking the code and shooting for 3 seconds.) We
> also improved the left navigation pane so you can more easily filter your
> results by department.  (Still working on further tweaks there too.)
>
> The biggest challenge has been getting all the cataloging right.  We have
> merged product catalogs from over 20 different sources. The result is the
> single largest Vanagon parts catalog on the internet, bar none. But the
> challenge is that each database uses different categories. (For example, one
> may put a brake pad in Wheel>Front>Brake, another in
>>Brakes>Mechanical>Pads, and so on.)  As we continue to merge all this data
> into one cohesive listing, there may be parts in wrong categories or
> uncategorized, or two similar categories that have not yet been merged.
> We're working on this literally daily. My suggestion is that if you're
> looking for a specific item, instead of browsing for it try selecting your
> vehicle and then searching by keyword (either from the Search tab on the
> main page, or the Search box at the upper right).  Personally I find it much
> easier to search by keyword and then use the left navigation pane to narrow
> down the results, rather than browsing.
>
> - Ron Salmon
>   The Bus Depot, Inc.
>   www.busdepot.com
>   (215)  234-VWVW
>
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