 | | Official Website Is Launched! —Jeff Byrd
| | | | Well folks, here it is. Some of the pics are being tweaked as I write this, but 95% is complete. The last minute changes will be finished by this evening. (URL) Thanks, Jeff (21 years ago, 25-Jun-03, to lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming.brikwars, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars) !
| | | | | | | | | | Re: Official Website Is Launched! —Leonard Hoffman
| | | | | | (...) the site looks pretty cool. I clicked the 'load catalog' link, another window opened that said "loading catalog" but nothing happened after that. -Lenny (21 years ago, 25-Jun-03, to lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming.brikwars, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Official Website Is Launched! —Jeff Byrd
| | | | | | | (...) LENNY, It might be your computer. This site requires updated flash stuff. Well, that and a decent modem speed. (21 years ago, 25-Jun-03, to lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming.brikwars, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Official Website Is Launched! —Richard Marchetti
| | | | | | | (...) Great! Blame the supposedly welcome and would-be customer... Things that suck about your site: 1. You have a useless portal page that forces a pop-up (and therefore forces me to change my "quick preference" browser settings to see your stupid (...) (21 years ago, 25-Jun-03, to lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming.brikwars, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, FTX)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Official Website Is Launched! —Jeff Byrd
| | | | | | | | (...) You must be joking, right? (21 years ago, 25-Jun-03, to lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming.brikwars, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, FTX)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Official Website Is Launched! —David Eaton
| | | | | | | | | | (...) Er... uh... yeah. That's Richard. He needs a nickname like "Mr. Sunshine" or something. I will agree that it might be nice if the portal page didn't spawn the popup, but everything else worked ok for me here at work (MSIE 5.0 on NT) other than (...) (21 years ago, 25-Jun-03, to lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming.brikwars, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Official Website Is Launched! —Richard Marchetti
| | | | | | | | | | (...) Nope. Read everyone else's comments and you will see that rather than being dismissive you should have been listening to the first two persons that commented they were having problems getting to everything on your site. I have the latest (...) (21 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, FTX)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Official Website Is Launched! —Aaron Muhl
| | | | | | | | | | In principle I agree with Richard. Why have a portal page that doesn't contain any info except a link to the catalog? I was also forced to change my pop up blocker settings for your page, which I don't like to do. Can you show the catalog in the (...) (21 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming.brikwars, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Official Website Is Launched! —Peter F. Guenther
| | | | | | | | | (...) While I don't think much of Richard's rhetorical skills, and I love your weapons, I have to agree with him about your site. Since some people have had no problem with a 56k modem and others have, I'm guessing the problem might be bandwidth (...) (21 years ago, 27-Jun-03, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, FTX)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Official Website Is Launched! —Austin Little
| | | | | | | | In lugnet.build.ancient, Richard Marchetti wrote: Great! Blame the supposedly welcome and would-be customer... (...) First of all, I think that was a little harsh. Second of all, great site Jeff, I had no trouble with anything on it. I might order (...) (21 years ago, 25-Jun-03, to lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming.brikwars, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, FTX)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Official Website Is Launched! —Jason Krish
| | | | | | | | I am on a Cable Modem and had no problems at all with your site. If he wants to complain, then he should at least show a little more restraint and tact. After all, you are not responsible for their connection speed/internet settings. Anyway, glad to (...) (21 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming.brikwars, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, FTX)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Official Website Is Launched! —Mike Petrucelli
| | | | | | | | (...) While a couple people have stated this might be a bit of a harsh reply, I find my self in the same boat. I would like to see the new castle stuff and probably buy some, but your page has requirements that exceed my setup. If you want to make (...) (21 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming.brikwars, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, FTX)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Official Website Is Launched! —John Herre
| | | | | | | (...) -snip- While he could have been more tactful, he is right. The pop-up is annoying, and websites that require the user to have the newest software and/or hardware are poorly designed. My initial experience (dialup/windows 98/newest version of (...) (21 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming.brikwars, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, FTX)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Official Website Is Launched! —Erick Jensen
| | | | | | | | (...) I'm on dial up here, and I can't slam the site cuz it doesn't load. I have the newest flash and 98 too. It starts the loading progress bar and then stalls out. I'd love to see it when it gets changed. (21 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming.brikwars, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, FTX)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Official Website Is Launched! —Jan-Albert van Ree
| | | | | | | (...) Almost similair experiences here (cable instead of dial-up and Linux/KDE instead of Win98) ... Please either also do a non-flash site or tweak the Flash pages to load better. Although we're perhaps a minority, there are people that don't use (...) (21 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.castle)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Official Website Is Launched! —Mark Sandlin
| | | | | | (...) I did have a bit of trouble when loading detail pages for different weapons. Sometimes pictures of other weapons would pop up in the sidebar, even though the description was correct. -Grand Admiral and Keeper of Fleebnorks (URL) (21 years ago, 25-Jun-03, to lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming.brikwars, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, FTX)
| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Official Website Is Launched! —Terry Prosper
| | | | | | Very nice work! I love your space weapons! God luck with this business. Terry (21 years ago, 25-Jun-03, to lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming.brikwars, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars)
| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Official Website Is Launched! —Bruce Hietbrink
| | | | | | Hey Jeff, Congratulations on the new site. It looks great! I really like the "in situ" photos especially. I also noticed that on several of the space weapons, when you click on "view details" you just see the detail of the robot blaster. These (...) (21 years ago, 25-Jun-03, to lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming.brikwars, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Official Website Is Launched! —Jeff Byrd
| | | | | | | (...) Bruce Thanks Bruce. Specific pics have or will be fixed this evening. I don't know what to tell you about the "view details" thing. It works fine for me, as well as MANY others. Jeff (21 years ago, 25-Jun-03, to lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming.brikwars, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Official Website Is Launched! —Spencer Nowak
| | | | | | (...) I like the design of the weapons and most of the page works fine for me. However, i have 3 questions. First, how do the droids hold their robot blasters? Secondly, are the handgrips on the castle weapons and blasters round? They look a bit (...) (21 years ago, 25-Jun-03, to lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming.brikwars, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Official Website Is Launched! —Jeff Byrd
| | | | | | | SPENCER - The handles are round. Look at some of the "detailed" pics. Sales?, unlikely. When I reach LEGO-like status, maybe. Those of you complaining about the pop-up index - Humor me for roughly 30 sec. Imagine you're clicking a button on some (...) (21 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming.brikwars, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Official Website Is Launched! —Philip Painter
| | | | | | | (...) Generally sales sites that use Flash offer an HTML-only alternative. And though I have a good connection with all the fixins, I still click that one. Flash is just that—flash. Nonetheless, I like the design of the site (save the pop-up). And I (...) (21 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming.brikwars, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, FTX)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Official Website Is Launched! —Amado C. Pinlac
| | | | | | (...) Good luck on your latest venture! One thing though you missed out on posting it to .market where I think this should belong. Or at least all FUTs should be there rather than flooding all the other newsgroups with the announcement. Regards, (...) (21 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming.brikwars, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars)
| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Official Website Is Launched! —Larry Pieniazek
| | | | | | (...) Jeff apparently doesn't know (or doesn't care, but I suspect the former) about conventions here, but the original post, in my view, was appropriate for somewhere in the market.* hierarchy **only**... perhaps market.buy-sell-trade? Could (...) (21 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming.brikwars, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Official Website Is Launched! —Stephen Wroble
| | | | | | (...) Hey Jeff, The site looks great, well designed and easy to use. I am on a phone modem and it does take a while to load, but it's worth the wait! Stephen (21 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming.brikwars, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Official Website Is Launched! —Jeff Byrd
| | | | | | | In regards to any technical problems, go here - (URL) Jeff (21 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming.brikwars, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Official Website Is Launched! —Mike Petrucelli
| | | | | | | (...) Well, Okay then. Give it a few days. Good to know. Thanks. FUT lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade -Mike Petrucelli (21 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming.brikwars, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Official Website Is Launched! —Lindsay Frederick Braun
| | | | | | (...) Very nice. I had no problem on a 56K modem, calling from (cough) southern Africa. Now, if *that* doesn't show up problems, nothing will. It took a bit to load, so maybe an indicator of some kind on the screen (loading...please wait) might help (...) (21 years ago, 27-Jun-03, to lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming.brikwars, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars)
| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Official Website Is Launched! —Jean-Marc Détraz
| | | | | | (...) I'don't like weapons anyways and they give me the creeps! As a Lego purist, I don't like to see other type of products in Minifigs hands, even when there're more or less well made. PEACE ON EARTH, JM (21 years ago, 27-Jun-03, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Official Website Is Launched! —Bruce Schlickbernd
| | | | | (...) Sold-flipping-out?!? Nooo...ooo..... -->Bruce<-- (21 years ago, 30-Jun-03, to lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming.brikwars, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, FTX)
| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Official Website Is Launched! —James Stacey
| | | | | (...) So despite the problems some people had with the site, enough people seemed to be able to see it ;) Nice one Jeff. I look forward to seeing what series 2 holds (21 years ago, 30-Jun-03, to lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming.brikwars, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars)
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