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Old Feb 24, 2009 | 11:42 AM
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Sadly it's on my business website not Passionford, sorry.

If you find yourself with 5 mins to spare, please test my new MultiMaps installation and report any problems you find.

I welcome any feedback on both technical issues and general usability.

http://www.evolutionchips.co.uk/dealer2.html

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Old Feb 24, 2009 | 11:47 AM
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Nice and easy to use mate
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Old Feb 24, 2009 | 12:05 PM
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Looks good. However, my contact details are wrong (I'll mail you the right ones before i get banned lol).

Secondly, if i leave the post code blank and select UK > GO i get only a few dealers and not all.

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Old Feb 24, 2009 | 12:29 PM
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Looks good. However, my contact details are wrong (I'll mail you the right ones before i get banned lol).
Thanks Bobby, Im likely to get quite a lot of that now as we are using the database that sent results to your chipsearch facility which must therefore always have been wrong and you just didnt notice?


Secondly, if i leave the post code blank and select UK > GO i get only a few dealers and not all.
Will look into that mate, well spotted.
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Old Feb 24, 2009 | 12:43 PM
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No worries - but the returned results have been ok in the past no issues to be honest. My contact details were correct on the old map if that helps.
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Old Feb 24, 2009 | 12:54 PM
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Works ok Stu

Could be better if you can choose all European countries,like for instance i have to choose Belgium but i live in Holland,so if i can fill in my postal code and country and it will automatically search the nearest by for me in whatever country
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Old Feb 24, 2009 | 12:54 PM
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It's all good here. There's so many dealers within 30 miles of me.
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Old Feb 24, 2009 | 02:12 PM
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wont even load for me mate,
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Old Feb 24, 2009 | 02:29 PM
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Looks good just a big gap between dealers were i am what do i need to do to be one filling the gap !
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Old Feb 24, 2009 | 02:38 PM
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looks good stu, it doesnt say iam a MOBILE dealer,and its a question that i get asked lots,people seem surprised when i say i can go to them..
but yes i like the new set up.

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Old Feb 24, 2009 | 04:38 PM
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Looks good!

Pity there are no Northern Ireland dealeers though

Are you looking any over here?
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Old Feb 24, 2009 | 04:55 PM
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Originally Posted by Lloyd
looks good stu, it doesnt say iam a MOBILE dealer,and its a question that i get asked lots,people seem surprised when i say i can go to them..
but yes i like the new set up.
Maybe its time you asked us to change it then Alan surely?


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Pity there are no Northern Ireland dealeers though

Are you looking any over here?
Always on the look out for enthusiastic professional installers mate.
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Old Feb 24, 2009 | 05:16 PM
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i saw the map, and it does look good

even better though, there is one just down the road form me, i could probably see it form my house if i stood on the chimney
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Old Feb 24, 2009 | 05:31 PM
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Works perfectly for me - nearest installer is 2.1 miles away
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Old Feb 24, 2009 | 05:51 PM
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Installer Locater... Could that not read Dealer Locater, as you click on Find a Dealer to get to the Installer Locater, doesn't flow in my opinion.

Also perhaps think about reducing the height of the Map so that I don't have to scroll the page to see the bottom of the results. Or perhaps give me the option to resize/choose a bigger sized map.

But that's me being panickety
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Old Feb 24, 2009 | 08:33 PM
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Originally Posted by dojj
i saw the map, and it does look good

even better though, there is one just down the road form me, i could probably see it form my house if i stood on the chimney
That would be me btw the chimney would be too high LOL
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Old Feb 24, 2009 | 08:40 PM
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Originally Posted by doesntbelong
Installer Locater... Could that not read Dealer Locater, as you click on Find a Dealer to get to the Installer Locater, doesn't flow in my opinion.

Also perhaps think about reducing the height of the Map so that I don't have to scroll the page to see the bottom of the results. Or perhaps give me the option to resize/choose a bigger sized map.

But that's me being panickety
A valid point. The old map was a "dealer map" will look to fix that.

Unsure what you mean by the height though pal, probbaly because my smallest monitor is a 22"
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Old Feb 25, 2009 | 08:58 AM
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Old Feb 25, 2009 | 09:09 AM
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Originally Posted by Stu @ M Developments
A valid point. The old map was a "dealer map" will look to fix that.

Unsure what you mean by the height though pal, probbaly because my smallest monitor is a 22"
I'm on a 17" Laptop at the moment running 1440x900. The map cuts off towards the bottom of my page; which means after whacking in my postcode it displays results, but the map is too big and I then have to scroll to see the bottom of the map. I presume it might be on an include or dare I say an IFrame so you could reduce the height of that.

No massive deal but I like to see all the information that relates to what I am searching for.

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Old Feb 25, 2009 | 09:50 AM
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nice and simple to use,work fine for me in bristol- i didn't realise you had an installer in weston.
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Old Feb 25, 2009 | 09:56 AM
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When I select Germany for example I don't see any shops.

Shame you don't have a supplier in The Netherlands though
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Old Feb 25, 2009 | 10:28 AM
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Excellent info, keep it coming guys.
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Old Feb 25, 2009 | 10:56 AM
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i think it would work better if the company details popped up on the hover as opposed to onclick.

looks good tho.
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Old Feb 25, 2009 | 12:35 PM
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This any better with regards sizing fellas?
http://evolutionchips.co.uk/multimap2.htm

If just pressing GO, Maps now center on Countries capital and show its local installers too.

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Old Feb 25, 2009 | 01:09 PM
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works very well for me!Ź
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Old Feb 25, 2009 | 01:13 PM
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Can you tell me which map size works best for you please mate?

A) http://evolutionchips.co.uk/dealer2.html

Or

B) http://evolutionchips.co.uk/multimap2.htm

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Old Feb 25, 2009 | 01:44 PM
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Sorted Stu, looks loads better!
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Old Feb 25, 2009 | 02:10 PM
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Originally Posted by doesntbelong
Sorted Stu, looks loads better!
Thanks, really appreciate your help.
Any chance of a screenshot to see how much dead space is left at your screenres?
See if i can squeeze some more map in...
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Old Feb 25, 2009 | 02:13 PM
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Easy to use and looks good,and there one with in 15 miles of me
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Old Feb 25, 2009 | 02:28 PM
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Perhaps only another 30 pixels. You could make room at the top by reducing your header image (http://evolutionchips.com/images/head_new.jpg) abit. Which could perhaps whack it up to an extra 60 pixels. You've also got some dead space at the top but having not had a look at your NAV code I couldn't suggest if that would be feasable.
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Originally Posted by doesntbelong
Perhaps only another 30 pixels. You could make room at the top by reducing your header image (http://evolutionchips.com/images/head_new.jpg) abit. Which could perhaps whack it up to an extra 60 pixels. You've also got some dead space at the top but having not had a look at your NAV code I couldn't suggest if that would be feasable.
Thanks pal, will leave as is now as it works and is functional so have now made it live. Appreciate your testing.
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