Date:         Wed, 14 Nov 2012 19:53:08 -0800
Reply-To:     Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: busdepot
Comments: To: The Bus Depot <vanagon@BUSDEPOT.COM>
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Hey Ron, can you tell me how to find the cable that operates the
footwell air flaps on an '84? I took a look today and wasn't able to
drill down to a specific part.

And by "tell me how," I mean describe the most effective steps to take
to find this item? Because it wasn't clear to me.*

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* I probably

--
Jack "Rocket j Squirrel" Elliott
1984 Westfalia, auto trans,
Bend, Ore.

On 11/13/2012 05:48 AM, The Bus Depot wrote:
>> The new website sucks. Can't search
>> anything or find things. It takes longer too.
>
>> I love it.
>
>
> This seems typical of the responses I've been getting - some people like the
> site more, some less.
>
> If you haven't been there lately you might have missed a lot of
> improvements. There are incremental changes occurring almost daily, so you
> may find the site a little easier to use each time you visit. Just this week
> alone we made reduced average search times from an unacceptable 15 seconds
> down to 5 seconds.  (Still tweaking the code and shooting for 3 seconds.) We
> also improved the left navigation pane so you can more easily filter your
> results by department.  (Still working on further tweaks there too.)
>
> The biggest challenge has been getting all the cataloging right.  We have
> merged product catalogs from over 20 different sources. The result is the
> single largest Vanagon parts catalog on the internet, bar none. But the
> challenge is that each database uses different categories. (For example, one
> may put a brake pad in Wheel>Front>Brake, another in
>> Brakes>Mechanical>Pads, and so on.)  As we continue to merge all this data
> into one cohesive listing, there may be parts in wrong categories or
> uncategorized, or two similar categories that have not yet been merged.
> We're working on this literally daily. My suggestion is that if you're
> looking for a specific item, instead of browsing for it try selecting your
> vehicle and then searching by keyword (either from the Search tab on the
> main page, or the Search box at the upper right).  Personally I find it much
> easier to search by keyword and then use the left navigation pane to narrow
> down the results, rather than browsing.
>
> - Ron Salmon
>    The Bus Depot, Inc.
>    www.busdepot.com
>    (215)  234-VWVW
>
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