just wondering is this just your hobby or is this your full time job?
Well, it is kinda both. Whenever I work on the webpage, I am on the clock and getting paid as if I were in the shop building crawlers. However, I only work on the webpage maybe 0-10 hours a month?? Furthermore, I am a full time college student and I only get to work 10-15 hours a week at the shop (half of 2 days a week; Tues. & Thurs.).
Now the last two weeks in a row, Marlin requested that I spend my time working on the webpage since we have some new things that you guys don't even know about. So I need to get them up, and I usually find other things to do that need to be added or modified first, so usually it takes me a couple of days to actually get something that Marlin wants up.
Now, this will all change in two weeks because my finals are then, and after that I'll be working full time until the fall. So, I will once again,
finally, add some weight to my wallet, and
finally be able to work 40+ hour weeks.
So,
I will also once again be able to update the page in one single day because I will have a full day to do it. Also, many of the articles and write ups are about 3-5 years old and were actually done by Chris Geiger (now working for All Pro Offroad) when he used to be our webmaster. Now that was wwaayyy back in the day. Those articles all need to be updated. They are way to long and Geiger is definitely not a virtuoso article writer, so I have always wanted to rewrite all of the information on the dualcase page and the 470 page, I just haven't gotten around to it. I have since made 2 different reversions of the page since becoming webmaster. Usually I get an idea, implement it, but then my time ends because I head back to college and the process is then very slow. But I was able to put up a very decent page, if I may say, and have been able to narrow my concentration to single sections of the page.
That's why some areas are complete, and others are not completed as of yet. But I am getting ready to make a serious overhaul from ideas that I have thought up while in the 'off-season' (working only 15 hrs/week) and will do some new work and clean up the site a bit during my break.
So to answer your question, yes, this is my hobby. I enjoy scripting and writing html as I do this all 100% free hand under Notepad and from memory. But if you are looking, as others have to become our webmaster, we at this time we don't really need any future services. I am not offended by you or others offers of webmastering, but the thing is that we have so many orders coming (and standing) that we are happy. We are not looking for Toyota 4WD World Domination, like some other companies are, but rather we are just happy to be here in business and happy to provide some darn good products for those who are interested.
So is the site old? Maybe. No flash or complex interactive scripting.
But I know that the site provides the information that we would rather
not spend telling each and every caller about. The site does the job that we intended it to: Prepare customers to make there order. It would be nice to be more in depth and offer internet ordering of parts, but when you consider the line of business that we do, it is merely impossible. Yes, selling low profile drain plugs would be a go, but not selling crawlers. Marlin doesn't want ordering from a mouse. He wants us to build a personal relationship with the customer, and this is what has kept us in business through all of the rough waters.
Regards,
BigMike
