Bob Roberts Quick Order Tool Alpha

[dethfactor]

i build data bases for a living and in my opinion your site is not user-friendly at all.

why not use paypal for a method of payment. i understand if you dont want to pay the fees but my guess is that your loosing customers without this option.

i had a tough time trying to figure out your email addy since my email was not set up to accept your client.

you need to establish a seach bar so one can search your site instead of scrolling though countless lists of items.

i was and still confused everytime i visit your site.

just giving you my feedback no hard feelings.

cr

Ok There's no hard feelings but lets get the story straight.

First, my site orderfrombob.com is a site that helps facilitate orders for therealbobroberts.net which doesn't except anything but checks. I get nothing out of it and did it out of the kindness of my heart. I dont know Bob nor do I think he cares. So since he only takes checks it wouldnt be cost effective to pay with PayPal and hire some service to draft checks
and I'm sure as hell not going to do it. Also PayPal is an expensive processor with an iffy API my years of web dev experience has taught me. Also they always side with the buyer, so Bob is in every right to not accept PayPal because he'd be getting screwed left and right from scammers and liars. As for the user friendliness, I'm working with what I'm getting. I'm literally doing a server side scrape of his parts page (which has no navigation at all) and injecting HTML/JavaScript in it along with a session based cart system and creating an index out of the anchors. It's a long shot from modern sites but it's an improvement on the copy/paste into an email laundry list of items from a huge HTML page and tons of side pages. As for the search, that's a great idea and I'll see about working out something soon. Probably going to be a live html search. If anyone else has some constructive criticism I'm all for it. Thanks for the 2 cents guys.

 

[RetroHacker]

i build data bases for a living and in my opinion your site is not user-friendly at all.

If you don't like ordering from Bob Roberts, then don't. His site is incredibly simple, straight forward, and in my eye, user friendly. I like using it a LOT more than I like using some of the real parts suppliers sites (Jameco's site sucks big time).

why not use paypal for a method of payment. i understand if you dont want to pay the fees but my guess is that your loosing customers without this option.

Bob doesn't use PayPal for many good reasons. For one, there are the fees, but also the fact that PayPal has way too much control over your finances. If he used PayPal, the prices would be higher to compensate. Money orders and checks are plenty easy. Also, the word is "losing".

i had a tough time trying to figure out your email addy since my email was not set up to accept your client.

I'm having a hard time understanding this. Bob's email address is plastered all over the site. It's a mailto: link, but the address is right there in it. Copy the link and paste it into your email client, and delete the non-address parts of it

you need to establish a seach bar so one can search your site instead of scrolling though countless lists of items.

If you press both the "Control" and the "F" key on your keyboard at the same time, your web browser will pop up a search function. You may then type what you are looking for, and search in this manner.

i was and still confused everytime i visit your site.

And I am rather confused attempting to read your post, as it is lacking things known as "punctuation" and "capital letters". Please to be researching these things. Perhaps they will help you later in life.

just giving you my feedback no hard feelings.

And I am giving mine. I also would like to point out that Bob Roberts does not post to this site. The "Order From Bob" site that this thread references is one user's attempt to automate the process of ordering from Bob. Other people feel as you do. They have a hard time with things such as searching, reading, copying, pasting, and mailing things in envelopes. Personally, I've never had difficulty. I find the ordering system he has now to be quite effective and simple. Granted, sending a money order takes more time than clicking "Pay Now" and signing in to PayPal, but again, it's not that big a deal, and it simplifies things for Bob. You have a right to your opinion, and I have the right to mine. I also get to make fun of your punctuation and spelling.

Ordering from Bob is simple. It just takes a few minutes of cognitive thought. If you can't handle this, then I'd suggest ordering elsewhere.

-Ian

 

[delroy666]

i build data bases for a living and in my opinion your site is not user-friendly at all.
why not use paypal for a method of payment. i understand if you dont want to pay the fees but my guess is that your loosing customers without this option.
i had a tough time trying to figure out your email addy since my email was not set up to accept your client.
you need to establish a seach bar so one can search your site instead of scrolling though countless lists of items.
i was and still confused everytime i visit your site.
just giving you my feedback no hard feelings.
cr

I use this site any time I do an order from Bob now. It's very handy!

I do have one suggestion/request. In the order I made yesterday, I had a lot of 74LS logic ICs which I had to add the 'old fashioned' way by copying and pasting. Would it be possible to put "Add to cart" buttons beside each item in the "74XX Series IC" list? It's the one located here: http://www.therealbobroberts.net/74.html and is linked to from the main "ICs" page (http://www.therealbobroberts.net/parts.html#ICs)

 

[dethfactor]

I use this site any time I do an order from Bob now. It's very handy!

I do have one suggestion/request. In the order I made yesterday, I had a lot of 74LS logic ICs which I had to add the 'old fashioned' way by copying and pasting. Would it be possible to put "Add to cart" buttons beside each item in the "74XX Series IC" list? It's the one located here: http://www.therealbobroberts.net/74.html and is linked to from the main "ICs" page (http://www.therealbobroberts.net/parts.html#ICs)

Thanks for the heads up. Since all of bobs pages are slightly different I need to write specific code to rebuild each page. I only did the 2 I use the most. (parts & caps) but I'll add this to my list for the next update I run.

 

[dethfactor]

It's been a while but my old server got hacked by Hungarian hackers a few months back and we migrated servers which was causing errors that broke the site. The site is now fixed. I'll be doing some major updates in a little bit, I'm going to cache the pages (more of them) work out a better cart solution and possible make it iPad/iPhone compatable.

Cheers,
-M

 

[TheDrewster]

Awesome! I was trying to use this a couple weeks ago and I was disappointed by the broken code. Glad to see its all fixed!

 

[dethfactor]

Update

Small update since it was fresh in my head.

I updated the Checkout button because I noticed it stopped working for a few browsers. I ended up changing the way the checkout system fires off and did something a little on the hack-ish side but it should work for more browsers, etc. I've also noticed that the checkout now works on iPhone/iPads/Androids do to this change. A mobile layout is due up soon.

Cheers,
-M

 

[KidVidiot]

another bob roberts order, another missing part. this time the 7 piece monitor adjustment tool came with only 6 pieces. Not even going to bother contacting. I'm sure according to his video cameras there were 7 when he packed it...

 

[dethfactor]

another bob roberts order, another missing part. this time the 7 piece monitor adjustment tool came with only 6 pieces. Not even going to bother contacting. I'm sure according to his video cameras there were 7 when he packed it...

Umm not sure what that has to do with my tool but I think the 7 piece kit has never been 7 pieces. If you look at the picture there's only 6 pieces. Either that or the case is counted as the 7th piece.

 

[ArcadeGreg]

Umm not sure what that has to do with my tool but I think the 7 piece kit has never been 7 pieces. If you look at the picture there's only 6 pieces. Either that or the case is counted as the 7th piece.

 

[divingbuddy]

Windows 7 IE 9, is not showing the buttons for post to clipboard and cart information at the top right of the browser window. Firefox is working great. Thanks for the hard work, it made my day. Order sent.

 

[dethfactor]

Windows 7 IE 9, is not showing the buttons for post to clipboard and cart information at the top right of the browser window. Firefox is working great. Thanks for the hard work, it made my day. Order sent.

The paste to cart stuff is done in Adobe Flash as javascript doesn't allow for clipboard access in browsers so Flash was the only way to go. Do you have Flash installed in IE9? I'll take a look at it sometime this week regardless. Thanks again.

 

[BeagleBoy]

FYI, McAfee reports your site as "malicious." No idea why (nor do I believe it).

Don't know if you can convince them to re-scan it or not. I wouldn't care, except our corporate firewall uses McAfee's lists.

-Jim

 

[kkcloak]

looking at a few things for me this Christmas

thx for this, will make ordering easy.

 

[dethfactor]

Took a little time to fix a few issues with the order tool.
I also added the Connectors and Harnesses pages.

I plan on reworking it so its mobile friendly eventually.

Keep on Keeping on.