[RBW] Re: New look for rivbike.com and new News blog

how about adding a browser tab icon ("favicon" i suppose they're called)? i might be wrong, but i think i remember one on the previous iteration of the site. paul takoma park, md. On Monday, March 22, 2021 at 5:23:32 PM UTC-4 Edwin W wrote: > Since I last posted the situation seems to be

[RBW] Re: New look for rivbike.com and new News blog

Since I last posted the situation seems to be much better: Now you can hover on the "bikes" menu up top and you immediately get a drop down of the bikes! They are, after all, the pride and joy of this BIKE company! Good job, Edwin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to

[RBW] Re: New look for rivbike.com and new News blog

Thank you for your feedback, Ted. I recently spent some time clicking around on the internal links, and thought I had found all that didn't work. If you can think of any that didn't get you where you wanted to go, please let me know. Thanks! John (j...@rivbike.com) On Sunday, March 21, 2021

[RBW] Re: New look for rivbike.com and new News blog

nice work harder than it appears. many of the internal links are broken, and wind up on the home page. it’s not a great experience, and Google doesn’t love it. fixing all the links in transferred content is a pain, but at a minimum have a good 404 page. better to tell the user you know they

[RBW] Re: New look for rivbike.com and new News blog

I was typing this before Ray's response above. Ray said briefly what I was going to say in a long-winded way. My too-long-didn't-read version is pasted below: === Generally speaking, I think of the participants on this Google Group to be somewhat on the

[RBW] Re: New look for rivbike.com and new News blog

I doubt that our complaints will change anything after all the work and money that likely went into the change, but I agree with you. I think it's a little silly to be a retrogrouch about web design, but I personally preferred the old site to the current one--even the last iteration I found

[RBW] Re: New look for rivbike.com and new News blog

I feel lost when I go there now. It's just a big photo of someone riding and my first thought is always, "Ok now what do I do?" I like Analog's page with a slide show of things to click on right away if you don't want to go search the menu. It's like a "welcome inside and look around" sign.

[RBW] Re: New look for rivbike.com and new News blog

Please consider having the top menu anchored... it would be a real boon when scrolling down through an article or product section to have the top menu navigation right there, as a sticky. - Andrew, Berkeley On Thursday, February 11, 2021 at 8:56:21 PM UTC-8 Dave wrote: > Hi Everyone, > >

[RBW] Re: New look for rivbike.com and new News blog

Hi Paul, Good catch. The restock notifications have been updated and appear on out-of-stock items. For example: https://www.rivbike.com/collections/lights/products/twofish-flashlight-holder On Friday, February 12, 2021 at 9:40:34 AM UTC-8 Paul Richardson wrote: > i for one made frequent use of

[RBW] Re: New look for rivbike.com and new News blog

Hmm, I miss the ability to see most of the products in a category on one screen, then I can click on the one I want to investigate. Now if I go to Cranks I see one product and have to scroll down through all to see what's available. On Thursday, February 11, 2021 at 8:56:21 PM UTC-8 Dave

[RBW] Re: New look for rivbike.com and new News blog

Still quite a few 404s when you click on links to frames. On Sunday, February 14, 2021 at 12:27:57 AM UTC-6 Philip Williamson wrote: > This is pretty cool. > I agree when people say to stick the nav bar to the top of the screen and > to organize the categories by subtype. OptimalSort >

[RBW] Re: New look for rivbike.com and new News blog

This is pretty cool. I agree when people say to stick the nav bar to the top of the screen and to organize the categories by subtype. OptimalSort offers free card sorting software, which can help organize categories. Its super helpful, even used

[RBW] Re: New look for rivbike.com and new News blog

Andrew, I'm not looking at my order history. When you include last year's custom the number is probably shocking!  On Friday, February 12, 2021 at 5:01:44 PM UTC-8 Berkeleyan wrote: > Dave, it's better than the old site, thanks! > > My initial suggestions are to (1) have the masthead

[RBW] Re: New look for rivbike.com and new News blog

Dave, it's better than the old site, thanks! My initial suggestions are to (1) have the masthead "stick" to the top of the browser window, so I always have access to the triple-bar widget, and the human head,magnifying glass,and shopping cart icons. (please consider activating the script that

[RBW] Re: New look for rivbike.com and new News blog

It's a little clunky for me, too, but I suspect I think this every time they update the site. I'm going to give it a couple weeks to forget how the old one worked. On Friday, February 12, 2021 at 4:24:56 PM UTC-8 eddietheflay wrote: > Not to compare...but the Velo Orange site of course does

[RBW] Re: New look for rivbike.com and new News blog

Does anyone know where the scans of grant's pics that were recently uploaded went? On Friday, February 12, 2021 at 4:24:56 PM UTC-8 eddietheflay wrote: > Not to compare...but the Velo Orange site of course does not have the > quality to photos that Riv does but 1000% useable and easy to

[RBW] Re: New look for rivbike.com and new News blog

Not to compare...but the Velo Orange site of course does not have the quality to photos that Riv does but 1000% useable and easy to navigate. Why when you are in a category do you have to look down at the bottom of each page to make the screen advance to next page. Why not simply load the whole

[RBW] Re: New look for rivbike.com and new News blog

The product pages, with some large photos and many small photos is very unfriendly and if you want to change categories, you have to scroll all the way back to the top to find the three little lines (which are almost invisible in those huge b images at the top) and click it again. Maybe once

[RBW] Re: New look for rivbike.com and new News blog

i for one made frequent use of the 'email me when this item is back in stock' option and would very much appreciate if that returned. paul takoma park, md. On Friday, February 12, 2021 at 11:50:44 AM UTC-5 Dorothy C wrote: > I like being able to see my whole purchase history in my account, via

[RBW] Re: New look for rivbike.com and new News blog

I like being able to see my whole purchase history in my account, via the page number scroller. I think the old site used to cut off at about 1 year’s worth of transactions On Friday, February 12, 2021 at 8:16:22 AM UTC-8 Tim Baldwin wrote: > I like the new look. Great to see Leah's

[RBW] Re: New look for rivbike.com and new News blog

I like the new look. Great to see Leah's excellently appointed Platypus build up on the new news section. It would be nice if you could click on an image to expand it. I like being able to check out all the little details on people's bikes. On Friday, February 12, 2021 at 10:00:43 AM UTC-6

[RBW] Re: New look for rivbike.com and new News blog

Looking good. Regarding the sub categories, which indeed can be helpful, if you open the "3-bar" menu, you get the drop down major categories--Parts, Gear, Garage Sale, etc. By clicking the "+" sign next to a main category, you get subcategories--eg, under Parts, you get Bottom Brackets,

[RBW] Re: New look for rivbike.com and new News blog

Thanks for the comments. Search is still in progress. The problem is that we have SO MUCH text on our product descriptions and articles that it throws the standard search for a loop. We're working on it. Stay tuned. On Friday, February 12, 2021 at 5:29:24 AM UTC-8 islaysteve wrote: > I was a

[RBW] Re: New look for rivbike.com and new News blog

I was a webmaster (of sorts) for a while, so I know how tough it can be to redesign a page or site. Thanks for your work. I took a quick look around the site just now. I don't mind the general look, but the search function, in particular, needs looking at. I went to "Brakes" and searched

[RBW] Re: New look for rivbike.com and new News blog

My first desktop impression in navigating it is "awkward". Some large images, some small. 2 columns only, lots of empty white space. On product pages the product detail font is oddly small/compressed/faint in relation to the title font and large images. I find it an awkward . I prefer

[RBW] Re: New look for rivbike.com and new News blog

It's Dave! Thanks for all the hard work on the new site and good to hear from you again man! ‍♂️ Joe Bernard On Thursday, February 11, 2021 at 8:56:21 PM UTC-8 Dave wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > Just a heads-up that we launched a new theme today for the rivbike.com > webstore. We enlarged the