Smokey Mountain Knives
Thomas M. Reynolds
promised. Guess what? Today June 1, the site reads that people should
come back when the new site is up and running on ....June 1. Slick
site. As I recall they didn't have things under control on the old site
what with the specials section not listing the specials (I think the
specials were where the new things were supposed to be). These people
need to be told their contractor needs to hire a 14 year old geek to
clean up the site. Take about an hour probably.
Roger Ma
that thing is hideous. Now, from a local knifesmith without alot of time to
setup himself or pay someone to do it, I understand, but SOG? Geez, guys,
open up the coffers and pay some snotnosed MIS grad student to do it...
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Jax 25M
looked pretty darn good. Everything was working and they had pictures of the
store and everything. I can't wait to get up there - I hear it's like a museum.
By the way - if you saw the old site, this one beats it hands down!
JOhn
Not really worth the trip if you are driving a long way. At least it
wasn't for me. I got a couple of trinkets but that is all.
JOhn
JOhn
mlb...@juno.com
wrote:
>Jax 25M wrote:
>> store and everything. I can't wait to get up there - I hear it's like a museum.
>Not really worth the trip if you are driving a long way. At least it
>wasn't for me. I got a couple of trinkets but that is all.
True. Don't drive too far out of your way to visit SMKW. Unless you
love those Paki-Blades. They have a ton of those......
Plan about 15 minutes for SMKW, then get over to Cades Cove in the
Smokies, & take the 11 mile loop. Deer, bear, it's really a lot of
fun.
mark
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>JOhn
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>JOhn
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Thomas M. Reynolds
>
> Hey - I know it's june 2 and all but - I just went to the smkw's site and it
> looked pretty darn good. Everything was working and they had pictures of the
>
to fix it up.:-)
Carl J. Paulsen
there a new url or something?
Carl.
Thomas M. Reynolds wrote in message <3755C9...@erols.com>...
Slayer666
Thomas M. Reynolds
old URL saying "come back here on June 1" and then not arrange for a
link to the new site or a message there is a new URL. All those with
bookmarks for them will keep trying the old site until they just give up
and buy elsewhere, etc. Their web approach always was sloppy and so it
continues.
Thomas M. Reynolds
do I personally know anybody in the business. I have finally had the
time to visit the new Smokey Mountain Knives site (once I was pointed in
the right direction)and it is simply....infuriating! It doesn't fit my
screen (everything else on the WWW does fit however). It is a kludge to
load. Must be connected with a 2400 baud modem or something. It uses
frames...very badly the indes dominates the pictures and information. I
really will avoid them simply because the site drove me nuts. No idea
if the prices are any good or not since it was simply too much work to
figure it out, but they need an overhaul immediately and 10 times the
bandwidth for a start.
Carl J. Paulsen
>I have nothing against these people and I am neither in the business nor
>do I personally know anybody in the business. I have finally had the
>time to visit the new Smokey Mountain Knives site (once I was pointed in
>the right direction)and it is simply....infuriating
I'll second that. I don't have any problem with it fitting on my screen,
with the exception that the size of the frame you want to look at is about
1/2 the size of your open window. Whoever designed it has obviously never
shopped for knives on a web page, because there is no brand name index, and
scrolling through 100+ knives on a single elongated frame is about the
crudest and least convenient thing I can imagine. Oh yeah, and it's
definitely slow.
The idiots apparantly forgot they had a framed page, end you can end up with
a redundant frame of the same crappy index next to it. AND... the page
still doesn't show even close to all of their knives! While I understand
that they have a lot of knives, and it might be a lot of work to update, if
they haven't changed that then why is this new page any better?
Carl.
Thomas M. Reynolds
fun at the old page for confusing specials and new items, but then it
worked OK from there on in. This thing is an absolute mess. As you
noted, the index/contents on the left takes half the page. Want to see
a whole knife? Scan side to side and then hunt for the price later. An
example of how not to sell knives (actually anything) on the Web.
A. Dale McLean
I could view it no problem. Just bring your screen resolution up to
1024x768.
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A. Dale McLean
ADaM Sharps Specialty Cutlery
http://www.nt.net/~admclean/Index.htm
Frank
I agree. It's one of the worst knife sites I've ever been to. I didn't
bookmark it.