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Have been having a play around with Rails new website this morning and the search feature isn't too great.

E.G. of you want to search for something by Bachmann then you get every product they make and can only narrow it down by scale.

Even the search feature is a bit broad. I put in Bachmann Class 66 and it came up with 3111 results.


Maybe the old one was better?
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"Rail News" Neil?

Have you the link please?

Pete
Rails of Sheffield

Nice looking site. not sure about the functionality though. Click Hornby... now what? How do you browse their steam locos for example? I don't want to look through 49 pages to find the category that interests me...
The website is still not finished. they had to launch early due to issues with the old servers.
Ok we'll allow them a bit longer to sort it out then. They can't realistically leave it where it is. It's too time consuming wading through 50 pages to find what you want.

Rails
It is amazing how much fine tuning a good website needs. It's only once you launch it that you discover all the bugs - customers can break a web site in a thousand and one novel ways!

60134
QUOTE (60134 @ 7 Jun 2007, 08:24) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>It is amazing how much fine tuning a good website needs. It's only once you launch it that you discover all the bugs - customers can break a web site in a thousand and one novel ways!
Presumably just like the MRF!!


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They should have user-tested a test version of the site before launching it. It's what we do at work. Our sites provide guidance for call centre operators and it would be no good publishing something that didn't work - more unhappy callers and increased call handling times - we'd be in big trouble.
Have to say that whtever else you think of them Hattons has the best website and other retailers would do well to imitate them.
QUOTE (Bilbo @ 8 Jun 2007, 10:33) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Have to say that whtever else you think of them Hattons has the best website and other retailers would do well to imitate them.

Which of Hattons' sites are you referring to?
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