Marlin Crawler is proud to release it's new Website!

[got cope?]

$1449 for all Tacoboxes? I get the same price whether I select 2.28 or 4.7. And do yall have the dang 2.7 couplers in yet? :p

[Tallchevy]

What happened to the "tech from the forum memebers" on the store page?

[Duffil]

What happened to the "tech from the forum memebers" on the store page?

he don't love us no mo. him done got fan-cee.

[Nocents]

Are ARB high pinion 3rds only $1350 now or is the pulldown in need of adjustment?

Nocents

[Jesseman445]

I like the new layout but the main page doesn't display correctly at all for me.  I'm using Google Chrome (browser) and this is the only site I've used that doesn't display well.

[yota_krawler]

What happened to the "tech from the forum memebers" on the store page?

i noticed that was gone too. wtf

[BigMike]

Looks good Mike, you rock! 

There is alot of gray.  Kinda gives a dark feeling, maybe change some of the borders or ? to kinda brighten things up a little! 

The bubbles around the screennames/information/avatar in the posts is a little distracting, it keeps pulling my eyes off the posts I'm trying to read.  Making it harder for me to read the posts.  The red fonts on the dark gray background is hard to read.

Alot of small minor grammar errors, typo's, and choppy wording in the product descriptions, but I assume that those will be cleaned up over time. 

Thank you for all the great comments! I'll keep your post in this thread despite its reference to the forum

As for the gray, brown, red, and orange colors, they will stay. What I can do for the chat bubbles is make their white background a couple shades closer to black to darken them up a tad.

I agree the red over gray is not a good combination. I have this on the list to resolve, but I am not sure what I will do yet.

As for the website, there have been three authors writing product descriptions. Of these, I would say I wrote 80%, TURBO wrote 15%, and CruzrDave wrote 5%. I would say my writing skills are close to great, but because I do most of the content between 1-4 AM, I often become so tired I produce simple bonehead mistakes (can you blame me?).

I would like to fix grammar and typos as fast as possible. Could you please PM me the links you have noticed?

As for choppy wording, I have intentionally begun using a more in-your-face approach based on past marketing research. I would say 90% of this is intentional, the other 10% is me staying up too late

Thanks for your help! Send me a PM!

Regards,
BigMike

[BigMike]

$1449 for all Tacoboxes? I get the same price whether I select 2.28 or 4.7. And do yall have the dang 2.7 couplers in yet? :p

I will have to double check for the proper price, but as for them all being the same price, YES! this is correct! We have redesigned our couplers and now only have 1 version that does not require additional mods, so all of the kits cost us nearly the same!

What happened to the "tech from the forum memebers" on the store page?

I thought about this two days ago! The current Tech section on our website needs to be themed, grouped, and organized. It is not a priority at the moment, however, but I have plans to include the information on that page. Don't worry, I still have the list and will keep updating it as well.

You'll also notice that MCI advertising banners no longer exist on this forum. I like the cleaner look without the banners but have considered placing banners at the very bottom of each page. I have not given this much thought at all (not worried about it right now).

The new website promises to yield far superior search engine rankings which will attract far more business from deeper into the market as well as outside our primary market. There will be many, many improvements on SEO within two weeks, including syndication and live bookmarks.

I like the new layout but the main page doesn't display correctly at all for me.  I'm using Google Chrome (browser) and this is the only site I've used that doesn't display well.

Ohhhh man You'll need to go back and read Reply #29 at the bottom of Page 1 for information on this. I desperately wish to make the website compatible with all types of browser software, but it has proved a real challenge for me. Less than 1% of our site visitors use Chrome, but I will be looking into Chrome-compatibility within the month. What version are you using please?

Thank you!
Mike

[Jesseman445]

Ohhhh man You'll need to go back and read Reply #29 at the bottom of Page 1 for information on this. I desperately wish to make the website compatible with all types of browser software, but it has proved a real challenge for me. Less than 1% of our site visitors use Chrome, but I will be looking into Chrome-compatibility within the month. What version are you using please?

Thank you!
Mike

Sorry I must've missed that post.  I didn't realize such a fringe minority used this browser, its pretty handy!  I'm using version 1.0.154.36. It's not really a problem, the forum displays very well, it's just the main page that is a little distorted. 
-Will

[854RUN]

WOW Mike looks like you have been busy. The site look Great!! You going to have time to do your "new" build thread now that the sit is redone?? 

[Jaysen]

Thank you for the nice site! look good!

[kneedownnate]

I saw some prices were updated... I knew I shoulda bought the front axle seal driver when it was $1 

[stealthrunner]

  The new site kicks A**!!!!!

[Cheesemaker]

The one thing I miss from the old site is the listing of part #'s on the page. 



And what about the TITS shirt???  Are they D/C'd again?  I want one.

[BigMike]

The one thing I miss from the old site is the listing of part #'s on the page.

I actually disabled the part numbers from being displayed to prevent confusion with products that have options. I might be able to display part numbers on products that do not have options, I'll have to look into this.

And what about the TITS shirt???  Are they D/C'd again?  I want one.

We are actually out of stock on them, so I pulled them from the site.

[MiniSimp]

We are actually out of stock on them, so I pulled them from the site.

I think having a instead of removing it from the page makes more sense. Otherwise people think the stuff is not out of stock, but no longer being sold.

[BigMike]

I think having a instead of removing it from the page makes more sense. Otherwise people think the stuff is not out of stock, but no longer being sold.

This is a great idea, but I am still working on the code to allow two separate databases to talk to each through our intranet. Like I said before, we have many, many features that are still in the works!

[got cope?]

I dont see the dual ultimate crawler on the site. Is it still offered?

[46&2]

Sorry if you already know this, just thought I'd mention it. I am running the site under OSX and Safari V 3.2.1 and every page on your actual webpage comes up fine except whatever it is I am looking at. IE when i go to the home page, i see both left and right columns in the right place but the middle part of the page is blank unless I scroll down quite a bit. its like this on all product pages as well for me. in case you didnt know

[BigMike]

I dont see the dual ultimate crawler on the site. Is it still offered?

got cope?: Please see http://board.marlincrawler.com/index.php?topic=54121.msg669213#msg669213
Dave and I are working on getting the Transfer case sections finished. Supposed to be finished this week, but mannnnn it is already late Thursday and I STILL haven't even touched it. I have so much going on -- and the shop in general, this new website has brought us a TON of new business!! We are doing exceptionally well over here!! Everyone is very busy and working very hard!

Sorry if you already know this........I am running the site under OSX and Safari V 3.2.1 and every page on your actual webpage comes up fine except whatever it is I am looking at.......

I replied to this on reply #29 on page 1, here:
http://board.marlincrawler.com/index.php?topic=53541.msg663321#msg663321

Less than 1% of our visitors are using Safari. I know I want to accommodate all users even cell phone users, but I gotta get stuff finished in a priority manner. Sorry! I actually have the following browsers installed on this same laptop I am writing to you from:
Internet Explorer 6.0.29
Internet Explorer 7.0.2
Firefox 3.0.5
Firefox 2.0.0.18
Opera 9.61
Safari 3.1.2

All 6 of those browsers are installed and operating on this same machine. Of these, Safari is the WORST in terms of CSS support. I plan to get Opera-related issues solved before Safari.

[46&2]

got cope?: Please see http://board.marlincrawler.com/index.php?topic=54121.msg669213#msg669213
Dave and I are working on getting the Transfer case sections finished. Supposed to be finished this week, but mannnnn it is already late Thursday and I STILL haven't even touched it. I have so much going on -- and the shop in general, this new website has brought us a TON of new business!! We are doing exceptionally well over here!! Everyone is very busy and working very hard!

I replied to this on reply #29 on page 1, here:
http://board.marlincrawler.com/index.php?topic=53541.msg663321#msg663321

Less than 1% of our visitors are using Safari. I know I want to accommodate all users even cell phone users, but I gotta get stuff finished in a priority manner. Sorry! I actually have the following browsers installed on this same laptop I am writing to you from:
Internet Explorer 6.0.29
Internet Explorer 7.0.2
Firefox 3.0.5
Firefox 2.0.0.18
Opera 9.61
Safari 3.1.2

All 6 of those browsers are installed and operating on this same machine. Of these, Safari is the WORST in terms of CSS support. I plan to get Opera-related issues solved before Safari.

Okay yeah sorry for being lazy and not reading back

It doesnt really bother me just thought I would mention it in case. And I dont care if you fix it either I can still read everything I Just gotta scroll down, didnt realize that few people used safari

[BigMike]

I know it is very annoying. I am sure I could fix it within a day or two. I'll see if I can work on it this weekend

[46&2]

I know it is very annoying. I am sure I could fix it within a day or two. I'll see if I can work on it this weekend

Whenever you get around to it, you have much higher priorities than the 2% of us that use safari

[Doof]

hey mike or somebody else.....

do you think it would be possible to add a feature to the forum to be able to unsubscribe to threads without deleting your posts??

is that something easy to do??

[blackdiamond]

hey mike or somebody else.....

do you think it would be possible to add a feature to the forum to be able to unsubscribe to threads without deleting your posts??

is that something easy to do??

x2 

[KDXSR5]

x3! Great idea, would be very useful

[unclejpl4x4]

good idea
X4

[emsvitil]

If you unsubscribe, your post dissappears?

I do know that when unsubscribing, notifications stop, but that topic will still show up in your

"Show new replies to your posts"    listing.   

(I would like to get it out of there when unsubscribing......)

[Doof]

If you unsubscribe, your post dissappears?

I do know that when unsubscribing, notifications stop, but that topic will still show up in your

"Show new replies to your posts"    listing.  

(I would like to get it out of there when unsubscribing......)

when you unsubscribe to a thread then you no longer get notifications of new posts in THAT thread. but your post does not get deleted


if that clears the idea up

[emsvitil]

when you unsubscribe to a thread then you no longer get notifications of new posts in THAT thread. but your post does not get deleted


if that clears the idea up

That's what I thought.   Didn't get why people were talking about deleting posts....

But I'd still like to get it out of

"Show new replies to your posts"    listing.   

when unsubscribing....