Farmhouse Brewing Supply - New Website

[jCOSbrew]

Like the new site, consider rearranging the LH menu to make it easier to navigate and more intuitive.

Use major categories like:
Brewing Equipment
Brewing Ingredients
- Grains
- Extract
- Hops
Wine Ingredients
Kegging
etc.

The two menu items for gift certificates are redundant, put these at the bottom of the menu.

Not sure what "Friday Night Lights" is but nothing is there. Put at the bottom of the menu.

 

[Steelers77]

Mosaic, Simcoe, Citra and Amarillo by the pound, now available!

 

[tagz]

You guys are a solid company and I will continue to order from you , but I've been really struggling with your site since the change over. I generally use my ipad to browse, but your new site makes that nearly impossible. It's really a mess when viewed by a tablet. I hope you're able to make some kind of upgrade in the future.

 

[Flipadelphia]

Woo-hoo my faucets and shanks I ordered from you guys shipped today, wish you had accuflex in stock! Your prices can't be beat for homebrew supplies.

 

[Steelers77]

You guys are a solid company and I will continue to order from you , but I've been really struggling with your site since the change over. I generally use my ipad to browse, but your new site makes that nearly impossible. It's really a mess when viewed by a tablet. I hope you're able to make some kind of upgrade in the future.

Can you elaborate? We are using Bigcommerce which is suppose to be Ipad/Tablel friendly. What pages are bad?

 

[tagz]

A lot of times when I'm browsing, I get a full list of all the category links above the items I'm selecting, so I have to scroll way down before I can view the items. Also, more than half of the hop images show up as question marks which makes the page look jumbled. You don't get any of the nice color borders or images/logos. It's just a white page with names of hops and question marks. It's functional but pretty unpleasant compared to the standard view site.

 

[RichBenn]

On the ipad it was impossible(couldn't order) when it first switched over; Now it's just BAD.

Fortunately there is a click on the bottom of the main page to use the regular site, which works fine.

EDIT - I take it back - it goes back to tablet site every time you change pages. Sucks big time!

This is a common problem, VERY annoying. Wish I could spoof all "tablet" sites so it thought I was a desktop in the first place. 10" Tablets have plenty of real estate, so no mobile phone mentality needed. (Although I even go to regular sites with phones, most often) Can't believe how many poor developers there are these days, who don't understand how to evaluate user needs properly.

 

[tagz]

Yeah, I use the "Switch to Standard View" every now and then, but it does switch back to the mobile whenever you click a link, and that gets frustrating.

 

[Steelers77]

On the ipad it was impossible(couldn't order) when it first switched over; Now it's just BAD.

Fortunately there is a click on the bottom of the main page to use the regular site, which works fine.

EDIT - I take it back - it goes back to tablet site every time you change pages. Sucks big time!

This is a common problem, VERY annoying. Wish I could spoof all "tablet" sites so it thought I was a desktop in the first place. 10" Tablets have plenty of real estate, so no mobile phone mentality needed. (Although I even go to regular sites with phones, most often) Can't believe how many poor developers there are these days, who don't understand how to evaluate user needs properly.

Rich,
I was completely unaware of this, I will contact the designer and look at addressing these issues.

I have to admit that I rarely look at the mobile version of the site because I conduct 99% of my business via a laptop.

Thanks for all the feedback.

John