Adding New Section & Works in Progress

Hey all Its Phil. Dave’s son and constructor of this here website. Both Thom and Dave have been throwing the idea back and forth about doing freebies for you guys to download and play around with. I just checked the last blog post and realized they are going about this the wrong way. So I’m adding a freebie section next to the “Buy Disks” button to the upper right corner of the site. From there I will set up organized directories so you guys can find things easily. As well as download compressed folders with the content, rather then right clicking the images and saving them. What this does is allows us to provide higher resolution and higher quality content directly too you guys. I’m also playing around with the idea of a direct download store. I also added a dedicated donate button to the left if anyone would like to donate a dollar to Clever Models.

This is purely experimental and may not be fully functional right away. Tell me what you guys think. We will try it out for a while and see if it sticks.

In addition, what are your overall grips with the website? I know there are some complaints to do with not knowing where to purchase textures and models individually. Let me remind you that they are no longer available, but there is some stock left for certain models. So if you shoot us an email and ask about something your interested in, we will be glad to help.

I’m planning on implementing some renditions to the website that should make things easier for you all. Just bare with me because my web development skills are pretty limited and I’m learning as I go.

Leave me your concerns, suggestions, complaints etc. in the comments below. I will do my best to help you guys out.

Comments

[andy]

Direct downloads would be great, definately the way to go.

[Ron Pare]

Hello Phil, I would be happy to help you with the website. Here is mine www.modelersguild.com

[LarryR]

First off, I tried the new Freebies section and it works well for me on both the Monson snow plow and the free directory.

I think that direct downloads would be a great idea. One thing that I think would improve the site is to have larger photos of your available kits, flats and texture sheets. I just took a look at the Furniture Factory kit and the small photo displayed does not show a prospective buyer what the kit looks like in any detail. I believe that larger photos would help sell your products.

Just my dos centavos,

Larry R

[Thom M]

larry we are slowly getting to better pix. did you click on it? there are often more pix under the displayed one.
Thom

[LarryR]

Thom,

Yes, I did click on it but the picture then displayed is still pretty small. This is also the case with the Quonset Hut, Brick Garage and others. I think that larger photos would show off your models much better for prospective buyers.

LarryR

[John]

Most peeps have fast connections now. Direct downloads would be great.
Just ordered two disks and now the waiting begins.
Last order from Amazon was a bit messy 'cause the polar bears got to the mailman before I could get my gun.......

johnet