Jim, I don't know what was there, but I can say if you were more descriptive you'd probably have a better shot at seeing it on the new site. I really don't think that Wellcraft is going to throw out thousands of dollars that they've already spent on designing a new webpage, only to drop everything and put their old site back up.

What info are you looking for? Makes and models and options? Power/Drive combos and options?



LL - one thing that is a bit screwy, the numeric values that align everything are off. 1985 and 1986 are seperated by a bunch of numbers in the 2000's. Also, was there ever any info pre 1985? And is there any motor spec info anywhere?

There was a break down of every model by year and size.. Then when you clicked on that tab it brought up pages and pages of information relevent to that model... As an example the 38 scarab AVS had 15 to thirty pages of info .. Now there is only 3 or 4 with a dark line drawn through it I know what I am talking about because I have all the manuals for that boat when I purchased it and they were also posted on the site the same way.
I have often referred the site to newbies who wanted information on their boat --- worked out very nicely!!

Now it looks like some one decided to take a meat clever to the info......


Jim

I believe the information like this was on the site before including the 1980's boats. They had it for all their boats. I just checked it a couple of months ago. A sad day in Scarab history. :(
Kudos to LL for trying to get it right!!!
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e3...Panther_86.jpg

Just checked it again. A lot more info there, just hard to navigate. Years are not in chronological order. weird

Rookie,

I just looked for the image that you posted and it is indeed there. under information/1986 after hearing cigboat1's description of how he uses the information I can see how it is hard to navigate.

Yeah I am aware of the chronological order problem. It bugs the heck out of me too. I will take some time to figure out what on earth is going on. They are certainly in order in the folder it pulls from.

I underestimated the number of people who would be visiting that section of the site and with looming deadlines focused my energy elsewhere. After the new product pages the historical information is the most popular section of the site. For now I can clean up the chronology and ask for any and all information to add to the site.

We will be revising the site for 2012 in the early fall so I can consider ways to rework searching the data. The site also has a real database for the first time (new boats only) so going forward everything should be available and not just in jpg format. Not terribly useful for this crowd but we're getting it right piece by piece.

Oh and what browsers are you folks using? Please consider upgrading to firefox, chrome, safari, or even ie8. ie6 and 7 are a coder's nightmare. Basically we are forced to do things wrong to get it to look right. So if there is a black line through something that should be visible, chances are that you are using an old version of internet explorer that does not play by the rules.

Thanks,

Daniel

I cant open any of the information there? Either directly, or by saving it to the computer. Of course, I am technologically challenged!:drink:

LLCoder,
I don't know if you are the man that can do this. Finding the graphics digitally would make a lot of people happy campers on this site. The one problem if you could do this is that Rookie would have no friends.
As for the web site I have not tried recently but I had downloaded the complete manual for a 1995 22scarab from the site in the past.
Thanks for the dedication

thanks from an "old schooler"!!

I spent a bit this morning adding a sort routine to get the years and documents in proper order. That should make it easier to look at. I will look into adding some better search tools either for the next iteration of the site, or when I have a dull moment this year.

Is a pop-up blocker intercepting the request? What error or behavior are you seeing? What browser and operating system? We try everything out on as many configurations as we can but we don't have everything.

Thanks,

Daniel