Texas Knifemaker's Supply ... Check this out !

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Hey guy's,

We just finished a major enhancement of the http://www.texasknife.com web site.

We finally published the 300 page EZ-Shop Store area and it's now "live online" at the site. At last count, we added over 1600 products to the total web site. The vast majority of these have detailed images, descriptions and application information attached. This is the area that was being rumoured at the shows last summer. Well, we can tell it now ... it was true!


HERE ARE JUST SOME OF THE NEW FEATURES:

----Knifemaking Product Supply Lineup (Live)
----Secure Shopping Cart with full credit card integration
----Catalog "Style" ordering system
----24 hour ordering (365 days)
----Easy and convenient Quick View Order Window
----"How-To" technical information with more to come
----"Web Partners" affiliate program
----Updated Show and Event Schedule
----Browser Friendly System


There's also a fully secured ordering system the cart feature has a really cool "quick view" screen to see a short version of the running orders.

To the best of our knowledge, it's now the most complex and complete knife making supply site on the web. We'll be adding how-to's and project articles over the next short while and there's a really nice "affiliate program" available for those of you who have your own websites or newsletters to take advantage of.

If you get some time, give it a look-see and let us know how you like it. If you've done business with Jim Lemcke and the guy's before, you know how great they are. We have long range plans to offer the latest product information through a newsletter announcement from the site, so sign-up for it while you're there and we'll get it to your e-mail box as soon as the first one's ready to go.

http://www.texasknife.com

Alex Whetsell
Atlanta Virtual http://www.atlantavirtual.com
alexwhetsell@atlantavirtual.com
 
This is great, it was one area on the web that was lacking, a good thorough knifemakers site.

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www.lameyknives.com
 
Yeah this place is pretty impressive.... the other stores have a bit of work to do to catch up with you
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Michael
 
Hey, Alex, Good Job!
My only suggestion is that you change the code to allow us frame-haters with bad eyes to narrow the left frame window completely down so we can see the screen well enough to read it!
Again, a job well done
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Thanks for the comments, Men! Glad you like the new site. Hope it's a useful resource for you. We're going to be adding to it on a monthly basis, from here on, so if you think of something that might be useful, shoot me a note and I'll have my guy's add it to the development list.

Dale ...
Thank you for the input. I realize that number 1 and 2 type markup is hard to read for a lot of folks. By your reply, I'm assuming that by "bad eyesight" is directed at the font size on some of the information. (However, if you get a lot of side-scrolling when you visit framed web sites, you may have your monitor resolution set below the internet design standard. Most all of the sites appearing nowadays are designed for a target resolution of 800x600.)

Actually, to quickly increase your ability to read coded text on any web page, you can go to the "View" menu on top of your browser and selectively increase the text size. This is a cross browser command, so it's available on both IE and Netscape. This will allow you to read the small prints much better, if you're having difficulty on a web page. You may get some distortion on the page layout, but that's not a problem as long as you can read it. Your browser's default is set to "medium" font size out of the box.

On window sizing, IE has an F12 feature that take you to full screen viewing mode. This will temporarily remove the navigation bars and allow the pages to fill the entire viewing area. The problem with allowing frame elements to be resized is that a system which is defaulted to cache visited web pages will remember the last saved size of the frame. Since a lot of users are beginners, in this sense, it's possible that they'll inadvertently change it from the natural proportion and not understand how to bring it back on command. You're right, frames are not the standard affair. Most sites are designed like a deck of cards in terms of navigation. That is, the next page replaces the last one visited. Because of the complexity of the TKS site and the need to keep the "quick view" order applet visible, frames were a must. We would have done it with a database driven layout, but some browser's fall apart when they encounter it and we have to design for the entire market.

Hope this helps in some way...

Alex
Atlanta Virtual http://www.atlantavirtual.com
 
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