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Announcements - July 2004 |
7-19-2004 - We added a site search function to help some who like searches instead of
browsing a list. It is is available to the right of the menu at the top and
bottom of every page. It is an imperfect solution as it does not find
everything, but will suffice for now. The BEST WAY to see if something is in our
lists is to browse the lists. See Search Tips
for further information.
The large and slow loading Pioneer lists have been removed and replaced with
much smaller ones. The new manuals listing page format (including an inline
Current Notes" window) can be seen on the
Accuphase and
ADC pages. Many more to be done very soon.
7-12-2004 - Additional changes to the site's main menu were made. More extensive use of
sub-navigation menus are being designed and put to use. In our mind (we hope
yours too), the whole site is shaping up and turning into something we can be
proud of instead of ashamed of.
(Finally - As
previous visitors can see...) The entire
Manuals and Other Stuff For Sale section is being completely rewritten and updated to
include all companies for which we have any literature.
All old pages are being converted to an identical format that matches all
the recent site changes for a totally consistent appearance throughout the
site. Several of the new pages will be posted very soon. While this rewrite
is in progress, you may run into incorrect or dead links which will be
corrected as quickly as possible.
In additional to converting the previous company listing pages, we have about 30,000 additional manuals to add to the lists.
All changes and additions are being posted as completed. "ALL" the changes
and New Company Listing Pages will be posted as soon as humanly possible!!!
Thanks SO MUCH to all who have been patience with the seemingly "long time
coming" site changes. AS SOON AS IT IS COMPLETED, WE
CAN 100% CONCENTRATE ON RESPONDING TO EMAIL WHICH HAS BEEN OUR #1
"BUG-A-BOO" (and biggest source of personal frustration) FOR A COUPLE YEARS.
7-7-2004 - Additional site consolidation, reorganization and code cleanup was completed a
few hours ago and uploaded to our host server. We removed a couple more main menu items and moved them to sub-pages. Overall, sub-page navigation has been improved immensely in my
opinion. Several
About Us
type things
and related stuff is now consolidated and accessible from one page. You can find information and pictures about Pioneer's late 70s dealer display
rack (which was called, THE RACK). It's in a new About Us page called
How
StereoManuals got started (Part One).
We created a few pages in the
Reference Section and prepared it
so that additional content can be added on a semi-regular basis. You can find information about db, power output and Sound Pressure Level in
the
Sansui SP-5000 Speakers report. Do you wish you knew the
Pioneer Manufacturing Date of your Pioneer gear? Go to the Reference
Section. I've also begun a page with a handy list of
Sources for Service of those who perform service and/or provide parts for classic gear.
We also removed (hopefully) all the old confusing info that was on several of
the manuals lists. The entire Manuals For Sale area will be replaced soon with new
pages. We have had a fair number of individual item description pages on the
site for
quite awhile now, but there were no active links to them. We are
finishing up a new cleaner, leaner template page and will begin to post active
links to the ones that are available now and then begin adding a lot more. I hope everyone finds the recent changes to
be helpful.
We moved a lot of old "please pity us" backlog notices, current
events, mail hell
explanations, etc. and combined them into one single page in the About Us
section and labeled it as an
old info page. Go read it only if you need some laughs.
We continue to be extraordinarily behind in customer communications. The
past few months have caused us to take a HUGE hit in that area (See the
6-5-2004 Note for further details). Today I
begin to FOCUS on replies to inquires and will keep at it. Someone remind
me... it was supposed to be a hobby...
Keep on hanging in there. We are.
Ain't life GREAT!!
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