New Website

[Deblieux]

Congratulations on your new website! I know it takes a lot of work to put this all together, and that you have a lot more to do. I'm getting used to it, even though there were some of the old features I already miss.
I want my Back-Button back. Navigating the site is like jumping on rocks in a storm swollen creek. You have to think about every move, and if you slip, you have to start over.
BrandMan says the owner's manuals are coming back, I infer for the old products as well as the new.
By the way, why isn't the MSUV anywhere on the site? Not in products, manuals, or clip art.
I hope that someday you can afford real color again. (I suspect that to get this underway it was easier to use existing photograpy in B&W mode and colorize it than to reshoot prototypes which may not have had correct colors.)
In the meantime, good work!

[ShopBug]

HORRIBLE website! Hardly a link works! When you redesign a website, duplicate all your pages and files so that you have the original intact. Design and create a WORKING copy of the new website BEFORE trying to replace the original one!!! I've never seen such a poor website for a large company! Good God Almighty the website is riddled with holes and leaks.

[Rick Leet]

Only thing leaking is "Da Bug". Rick

[Josh]

ShopBug,

We do still have the old site in almost complete working order at http://www.ridgid.com/indexnew.asp . However we have choosen to leave up the new site. We cannot find all of these problems that your have found. Could you please tell us specifically where you are having problems and what operating system you are using. "Hardly a link works! " doesnt help us out at all. Because we can't find a link that doesnt work. One of the only things I can possibly think of that might be going wrong for you is you may have a "pop up" blocker set up on your browser. Like the new google bar. If you have something that blocks popups our manual and parts sections may not work. We have tested the site and we are confident that it is very functional. I know there are probably bugs here and there and we are more than willing to fix these. But we don't get a lot of direction out of "HORRIBLE website! Hardly a link works!"

Josh

[ 09-05-2003, 09:56 AM: Message edited by: Josh ]

[Norm]

Originally posted by ShopBug:
HORRIBLE website! Hardly a link works! When you redesign a website, duplicate all your pages and files so that you have the original intact. Design and create a WORKING copy of the new website BEFORE trying to replace the original one!!! I've never seen such a poor website for a large company! Good God Almighty the website is riddled with holes and leaks. Hmmmm. That's interesting, ShopBug. You would think that we would be swamped with complaints if the site was this buggy. Why do you think that you're the only person having these problems? Are you using a browser/OS that is radically different from the other users machines?

By the way, we have had several complaints from other Forum users that you are what is commmonly called a troll, that is, someone who posts inflammatory or factually incorrect information on a public forum for the sole purpose of generating responses. In support of that view, I noticed that you registered on the forum on 8/21/03. Since then you have made 17 posts, every one of which has been negative. Apparently, before we changed the site design and came up with the new line of tools, you had no desire to contribute to the community. Now you only criticize without offering constructive suggestions.

To top it all off, you have posted your "Inside Information" topic in multiple locations, an obvious abuse of the Forum. Please consider this a warning; more unrelentingly negative posts or posting the same topic in multiple locations will result in your removal.

[BillAMJ]

Norm,
How about just doing us all a favor and getting out the Raid so that we can be done with the biggest (shop)bug on the forum?

[ 09-05-2003, 12:20 PM: Message edited by: BillAMJ ]

[ShopBug]

Norm,

This is not the first time I've told you to fix the website. This is not the only thread, and I'm sure's heck not the only one complaining. READ the other threads, they are still current. Am I the only one? I think NOT!

Also, don't even bother to "remove" me from the forum. I have taken that consideration in advance and created 24 usernames with varying IP addresses. Attempting to remove me will only result in war.

I don't plan on multiple postings on the same topic but the "Inside Information" was just too too too important to risk other woodworkers missing out on. Don't YOU think so?

I shall now crawl back into my shop and resume work on my projects...

[BadgerDave]

Norm, Josh, BrandMan, & bdueker;

You guy are the moderators, how about doing a little moderating. Give the "bug" an ultimatum. Be nice or be gone! We don't need to see his crap and he certainly contributes absolutely nothing positive.

[Norm]

Originally posted by ShopBug:
...
Also, don't even bother to "remove" me from the forum. I have taken that consideration in advance and created 24 usernames with varying IP addresses. Attempting to remove me will only result in war...
That's enough. Bye now.

[BillAMJ]

Norm, I think that I speak for many of us when I say THANK YOU!

[Mark IV]

Roger that.

[Dave Arbuckle]

Norm, please notify his ISP also. That's a violation of about any ISP's terms of service.

Oh, and thanks! smile.gif

Dave

[Rafael]

It might be more effective to just ignore him from now on.

[BadgerDave]

WOW :D , thats one of the fastest jobs of moderating I've seen in a long time. Too bad it had to come to that but he brought it upon himself. tongue.gif OK, so back to woodworking stuff. :cool:

[K.M. Delano]

:D

[Rafael]

I do want to compliment the moderators of this site. They have been forgiving and tolerant of all opinions posted here no matter how critical of them or of Ridgid. But no one should be allowed to abuse them, this site or the privledge to post here. We all now know what it takes to get booted off of here and I think they have been more generous with what it took to do that.
Thank you to the moderators,
Rafael

[KellyC]

A big thanks to the moderators is in order. You've put up with my posts as well as others that were negative, but kudos to you for getting rid of the 'worm'...er bug....

I detest people who troll about these forums and I thank you for both getting rid of him and for putting up with the rest of us who aren't quite so harsh, but still have critical things to say in our posts.

[Rodger]

Are you guys really so naive to think that the Shopbug has been "gotten rid of?" I mean, did you not see that he has unlimited IP addresses and at least 27 usernames?

[Rodger]

Am I the ShopBug? What about the guy that joined up at about 8pm PST? Is he the Shopbug as well? Am I not the ShopBug and he is? Are we both? Who knows?

Hmm... The usernames are different, the email addresses are different, the IP addresses are different... Norm?

[Rafael]

With my ISP the IP address changes every time I connect with a small possibility of having the same IP twice. For some people it doesn't change, it depends on several factors. If he posts to this forum again under a new identity and behaves, then no problem. If he doesn't behave, then ignore him(do not post a reply), he will eventually go away.