Date:         Tue, 13 Nov 2012 22:27:34 -0700
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From:         OlRivrRat <OlRivrRat@COMCAST.NET>
Subject:      Re: busdepot
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                Hey Ron

        I just took a BriefBrowseAround the NewSite & it seems quite fine to
me ~ of course I'm on a Mac

& pretty much everything works pretty fine on a Mac ~ Keep up the good
work

                                                        ORR ~ DeanB


On 13 Nov , 2012, at 6:48 AM, The Bus Depot 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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