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After 2 months of work, the site is finally stable, bug-free (hopefully) and
ready to be used. I wiped out all test information on the site including
everyone's inventories, orders and profiles. The site can now be accessed by
its domain name:
http://www.brickbay.com
I added a couple things since the test mode began and have been able to
implement most of people's suggestions. Here are some of them:
Selling in Bulk:
You can set the minimum buy of each item you have for sale so that a buyer can
only buy them in multiples of that number. For example if you have 1,000 red
bricks and want to sell them in batches of 100. The system will only allow
you to have minimum buy if it is a divident of quantity or else people would
never be able to buy the rest.
Password Recovery:
3 people actually forgot their password during the test mode so I added a
secret question/answer to the registration form which will later send your
password to the e-mail address you supplied on the form if you answer your
question correctly. (this feature isn't in place yet but will be soon).
Making Inventory Unavailable:
You can turn off your inventory to the general public if you for example go on
vacation or if it takes you couple hours to build your inventory and don't
want people buying items before you're done.
Images:
You can select parts from drop-down menus or type in the part number and
request a 80x60 black and white image of the part and copy it into your item
URL by clicking a button. There are now only few images of the parts but rest
will be added soon since generating these images is a pain.
This site will still be worked on and more features will be added. Auctions
should be there soon. It is much much easier to create an auction site than
what's there now since here we are moving people's items all over the place.
Everyone's profiles have been wiped out since now everyone has to accept the
TOS if they want to use the site. If you intend on using the site and have
any suggestions on what other features you want to see, please feel free to e-
mail admin@brickbay.com
Thanks for reading this and big thanks to everyone who took their time testing
the site.
D.
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"D. Jezek" wrote:
>
> After 2 months of work, the site is finally stable, bug-free (hopefully) and
> ready to be used. I wiped out all test information on the site including
> everyone's inventories, orders and profiles. The site can now be accessed by
> its domain name:
Yo Dan,
On my browser (Nestcape 4.67) running at 1024x768 screen res, I think
something is wrong. There's nowhere to sign up, but there is a thin
light blue line between the black top area and the dark blue main screen
area with the store list. Is that light blue area supposed to be bigger,
and have buttons on it??
Kevin
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--> On my browser (Nestcape 4.67) running at 1024x768 screen res, I think
> something is wrong. There's nowhere to sign up, but there is a thin
> light blue line between the black top area and the dark blue main screen
> area with the store list. Is that light blue area supposed to be bigger,
> and have buttons on it??
Kevin,
I had this problem during the beta stage, turned out that it was because I
had my system set to "Large Fonts". Once I switched back to small fonts, it
displayed properly. It also displayed properly at 640x480 or 800x600.
Granted, this should not be a problem to begin with. I'd suggest making the
frames resizeable atleast so that people that experience this problem can
just make the top frame bigger.
Troy
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Please note my new e-mail addresses:
Personal: mnementh@dsl.telocity.com
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Troy Cefaratti wrote:
> I had this problem during the beta stage, turned out that it was because I
> had my system set to "Large Fonts". Once I switched back to small fonts, it
> displayed properly. It also displayed properly at 640x480 or 800x600.
Well, that pretty much means I can't use Brickbay as it stands. I *have*
to have large fonts on my monitor in order to read the screen, and
1024x768 in order to do my work. I'm disappointed that you reported it
(in fact now I remember that you did) and it wasn't one of the things
that got fixed.
Dan, any chance this will move up to the top of the list soon? I would
like to be able to use Brickbay!
Kevin
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http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/kwilson_tccs/lego.html
eBay auctions: http://members.ebay.com/aboutme/kevinw1/
Guild of Bricksmiths: http://www.bricksmiths.com
Lego Dacta sets (coupons 39574SVTR and 39613PRMT till June 15th):
http://www.vstore.com/vstorehobbies/kevinskits
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In lugnet.market.shopping, Kevin Wilson writes:
> Troy Cefaratti wrote:
> > I had this problem during the beta stage, turned out that it was because I
> > had my system set to "Large Fonts". Once I switched back to small fonts, it
> > displayed properly. It also displayed properly at 640x480 or 800x600.
>
> Well, that pretty much means I can't use Brickbay as it stands. I *have*
> to have large fonts on my monitor in order to read the screen, and
> 1024x768 in order to do my work. I'm disappointed that you reported it
> (in fact now I remember that you did) and it wasn't one of the things
> that got fixed.
>
> Dan, any chance this will move up to the top of the list soon? I would
> like to be able to use Brickbay!
Kevin,
Your request was immediately taken into consideration and implemented. :o)
I changed the background too. Hope you have a pleasant experience using the
site.
Dan
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> Kevin,
>
> Your request was immediately taken into consideration and implemented. :o)
> I changed the background too. Hope you have a pleasant experience using the
> site.
>
> Dan
Ohhhh...pretty! I may not be fond of green, but that is quite nice. It looks
like one of my homemade backgrounds, but I know it's not. Hmmm...maybe I should
make those available for public consuption. Another future project...lol.
-Dave
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"D. Jezek" wrote:
> Your request was immediately taken into consideration and implemented. :o)
> I changed the background too. Hope you have a pleasant experience using the
> site.
YES! Thanks muchly Dan, now I can see what I'm supposed to see! I like
the background... looks like underwater seaweed!
Kevin
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Personal Lego Web page:
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/kwilson_tccs/lego.html
eBay auctions: http://members.ebay.com/aboutme/kevinw1/
Guild of Bricksmiths: http://www.bricksmiths.com
Lego Dacta sets (coupons 39574SVTR and 39613PRMT till June 15th):
http://www.vstore.com/vstorehobbies/kevinskits
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Kevin Wilson wrote:
>
> "D. Jezek" wrote:
> > Your request was immediately taken into consideration and implemented. :o)
> > I changed the background too. Hope you have a pleasant experience using the
> > site.
>
> YES! Thanks muchly Dan, now I can see what I'm supposed to see! I like
> the background... looks like underwater seaweed!
As opposed to above water seaweed?
Sorry, I am sleep deprived.
Brickbay looks cool.
Now how do we promote it?
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In lugnet.announce, Dan Jezek writes:
> Making Inventory Unavailable:
> You can turn off your inventory to the general public if you for example go on
> vacation or if it takes you couple hours to build your inventory and don't
> want people buying items before you're done.
This is nice and well, but I'm browsing and about 80% of the "stores" are
unavailable. Perhaps something on the main page noting it is unavailable?
That'll save the time of clicking on each one, only to discover they're
(almost all) unavailable currently.
-Shiri
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