Modern Vespa

Check out the new site, and let me know if you come across any bugs. We've been working on this for two years, so we're quite excited about the launch.

http://www.beta.scooterwest.com/

Nice! I browsed around for a while. easy navigation. No bugs for me.

Just a suggestion that you break the "Super" out from the 250

I would call it the "GTS 300 Super"

Soon you will have GTS 300 specific parts, like seats, topcases, parts, etc.

I noticed that the other day when I was looking around

I like the new look of the site Max, congratulations. I too would like to see the 300 Super separate from the 250's unless any and all performance and tuning parts are interchangeable.

I placed an order yesterday using the 'old' version. I hope the order makes it through the 'beta' way. Nothing was wrong with the old one. Why change?

I like the new site. No bugs detected from my short visit.

The new one seems to load pages a bit quicker which is always nice.

The checkout process was really clunky. This one is much improved, and is more secure. It will also allow us to add all kinds of really cool features. You can now search by model so people will know what fit s what bike.

It looks good, but my login information doesn't seem to work. I can still log in to the old site. Will I have to create a new account?

aesthetics is everything!!!!! lol

"form over function"

Very nice Max. I found seaching for GT 200 accessories for my much easier than I did using the original site.

found it hard to navigate. every time I finished looking at a particular item and wanted to return to the list it brought me all the way back to the begining. Every time I looked at something I had to start over

Adding a stock belt to my wishlist brought your system to its knees. Trying again in a new window worked.

cheers

I also think you should add a 300 super section. I was going to order all sorts of stuff for my 300 but i'm still confused what will work on my particular ride....

I'm looking for :

Top case and rack

Windshield - Large , Medium , Fly ...

Filter and filter tools...

I only buy original and am not interested in aftermarket....

How about a GPS mount for a GARMIN 660 ? etc.....

Generally it looks nice.

One suggestion though would be to decrease the height of the top banner area (the part with the logo, the search box and the scooter images) for the secondary pages (secondary being anything that isn't the home page. You could make the images smaller and incorporate the search into the menu bar (Home Page, New Scooters, etc)

This way your users would see more of the product info on each page without scrolling. For people running a browser at 1024x768 resolution (the most common setting) they only see one item at the bottom of the page, and might mistakenly think that's all there is. I'm assuming you'll get rid of the beta banner (the brown one) eventually, so they'll see 1 1/2 items, but this is still a lot of scrolling.

There's too much "fluff" in the new site. Prefer the old site, mainly because thumbnail images are larger on the browsing pages and I don't have to scroll as much to see the same number of products. Prefer the "grid" view to the "list" view.

Also, the "scooter fit" section is a bit odd, as clicking on one of the scoots in the popup takes you to products for that scoot. I would expect it to show me the current product I had selected ON that scoot. A solution might be to disable clicking on the popup images, and instead just leave the hovering enabled.

With link navigation, there also seems to be a lot of wasted space. For example, navigating to "GTS Electrical Parts" does not show the following on the same line:

Vespa GTS250ie-Super » GTS Spare Parts » GTS Electrical Parts

Instead, GTS Electrical Parts is shown to the right with an unnecessary thumbnail, separated from the other navigation.

Less drop shadows.

I like the faster page loading and new color scheme. Seems to be more robust and easier to manage over time.

Just my 2 cents.

+1

Max - Have you fixed the problem with the on-line order page estimating huge shipping costs for out of country?

I believe when I used the Search function embedded within a specifc product area (i.e. tires) I didn't get the results as I did when I used the General Search function at the top of the page. Got results from General Search function.

Flicked through the BV500 pages and it seemed stuck on page one.

Noticed that when you press the back button in a browser
you don't end up at the section you left off at on the previous page,
Instead you end up at the top of the previous page.

It's just a minor bug to me, I hate scrolling,
It only happens deeper into the website catalog.

Perhaps all the pages weren't anchored properly.

It looks like a big improvement. So far I like it, but I'll let you know more when I make my next purchase.

When is the iPhone version coming out?

Shane

got an error popping up...

Win XP Firefox 3.5

"Carousel: No width/height set for items. This will cause an infinite loop. Aborting."

IT happens when i click on some pics that i get thrown that error from within windows XP... the site still works, but it freaks out...

On IE8 and when browsing through various products, the line at the top of the screen where you can "Search" or change the default view from "10" to "20 or 50" is NOT working or displaying properly. When trying to change the view I keep getting an "Error on page" notice and the entire bar area looks out of alignment with the page.

The same line works correctly on Google Chrome and Firefox.

+1

like dani said, the back button does not do what it is supposed to do.

site looks really nice.

Thanks tons to everyone for the feedback! Very much appreciated. I will forward this on to our web developer!