My new job and site ive set up for work

[nova]

Well heres the link first off this is a powweb hosted site. http://www.rockriverbikeshop.com Currently its pretty sparse more of getting all the frame work set up at the moment and slowly going to add in the content (things like online store inventory etc). I'm using e107 cms for the site (likely obvious to many) Far as im concerned theres not a better out of box cms app out there. Ive used allot of them in the past. Both free like xoops phpnuke e107 obviously and paid like expression engine nasty obtuse thing IMO. Can't believe people pay good money for it. Its shopping cart system is just laughable. The logo banner up top is one i put togather from images the shop owner has had for a while so its more a copy cut and paste job than any thing else but i personally like how it turned out. I'm sure theres tons of people here on the forums who could do it a 100 times better in a hours time since i pretty much stink at 2d art related things.


Comments are very welcome feel free to sign up on the forums there if you like and are a forum junkie like i am heheh.

[YvetteKuhns]

Welcome to the forum, nova! I miss my 1972 Chevy Nova. I just saw one at a car show on Sunday. Did you pick the name for a car, an astrological term or some other reason?

My chiropractor has a contest to win a Schwinn and the bike is displayed in the office. He recently did an overnight bike run and came back with a tan.

Your pages are loading slowly right now and you don't even have much contents yet. Your CMS uses relative URLs instead of absolute URLs, so I prefer your choice of e107 over something like Joomla. It is more server resource friendly. Too bad someone on your server is dragging down the server.

[nova]

Yeh its been doing that off and on last few days a bit annoying for sure. As for the name na its from a old old book on dragon myths well sort of. I took the descriptive name of a dragon from old English and translated it to English (non exact translation) It was basically dragon of fire from a dieing star flare (or fire from a star) nova ( a dead or dieing star) Then reversed them and combined the 2 words for novaflare shortened to nova where possible. Interesting about the 72 nova heh as thats my birth year as well as one of my fave cars.

[YvetteKuhns]

Yeh its been doing that off and on last few days a bit annoying for sure.

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Cool story about the name. I thought of Supernova, but I first thought of the car. See the 1972 Chevy Nova SS (http://www.powerpageswebdesign.com/72NovaFront.jpg) which had BCN on the license plate, so I called her the Black Cat Nova. My first car was a 1978 Chevy Nova. I have a Chevy Malibu now, but it isn't a 1967 as I would prefer; it is a 2003. The Chevy Venture van is great since I can remove each seat one at a time when I want to go to Home Depot. ;)

My husband had a 1968 Mustang convertible (That was when I was born.), but he usually drove the 1967 fastback. He is now forced to drive Chevrolets since I am usually buying the cars now. :D

Okay, I quickly viewed your website since it got fast again. You don't have anything in the store yet. Let me know when you do. I have some friends who go biking. I couldn't do that here. I live on a major highway. The police actually stop bicyclists from riding here, but they can ride in the park.

I live a few miles from the famous Lehigh Valley Velodrome. I saw people before they became famous. Oh, now I notice that I have to look at those links under Bikes instead of the Online Shop. I saw youth bikes since I have a son. I will have to check back later after you had time to add things.

[nova]

Yeh on the bikes it has to be in store pick up only. Most bike companies do not allow a bike shop to re ship their bikes. The online sales will be tools pumps tubes tires and that sort of thing. If theres any specific item you need just let me know we may have it here. I know for a fact we are cheaper than most any other online retailer on accessories heh.

As for the whole highway thing yeh theres some places here on ohio where you can ride on some quote unquote highways like a section of old 21. Lucky for me ohio has alot of park land. When looking at a map of ohio that shows park controlled land its this nice wide strip from lake erie to the ohio river right down the middle of the state. Then theres the towpath trail that only has 3 1.5 to 2 mile breaks left to be finished and then its a 108+ mile trail from up in Cleveland to zoarville. Then up in Cleveland theres the emerald necklace and some what south you have the bike and hike trail. Id say all told theres a solid 1k miles of road bike aka 10 speed bike ridable trails in ohio and about the same for mountain bike trails. Thats just trails and paths showing up on one map or another.

Our brick and mortar (bitterly brick and mortar) shop is about 1/10 miles from the main st trail head in clinton ohio for the towpath trail. Also opening a store in kent in a few short weeks.

As for online bike sales i want to try and get one of the bike manufactures to allow us to reship their bikes so we can sell online and ship the bikes.

[YvetteKuhns]

Yeh on the bikes it has to be in store pick up only. Most bike companies do not allow a bike shop to re ship their bikes. The online sales will be tools pumps tubes tires and that sort of thing.

Oh, I was not aware of that.

If theres any specific item you need just let me know we may have it here. I know for a fact we are cheaper than most any other online retailer on accessories heh.

I can pass the word to my friends.

As for online bike sales i want to try and get one of the bike manufactures to allow us to reship their bikes so we can sell online and ship the bikes.

Good luck! I guess they are worried about the size or possible damage during shipping. One of my clients ships motorcycles in crates after painting them. If you can ship a motorcycle, surely you can ship a bicycle.

[Doc C]

I've shipped a bumber for a Jaguar XJE so I know you can ship just about anything!

[YvetteKuhns]

I know people who ship lots of car parts, but there are rules about parts that would have chemicals or fuels in them. For example, you must be careful about sending gas tanks, motors or even exhaust systems. Laws vary upon location. That is why I don't like to worry about shipping car parts. I usually sell those as cash and carry items. The buyer can inspect the part and know it is okay.

There are licensed car carriers to ship vehicles all over the country and sometimes internationally. I wouldn't want the headaches involved in this. Think about heavy items that travel by train or air and you must meet your parcel at the nearest delivery point and not your home. Sometimes, the nearest location can be 50 miles away!

My grandfather used to deliver cars for a Chevy dealer in Arkansas. He lived 50 miles from the nearest town, so he only shopped for food once a month! He loved driving the cars. I thought they would trailer the cars into the dealership. They add a lot of miles on the cars.

[Doc C]

I was the shipping department for a company that only worked on Jags when I was in high school. I had to pack everything from horn buttons to bumpers and have them shipped all over the country. They had to meet UPS delivery protocol.

That bumper I mentioned in another post? The combined dimensions of the carton I created for it was about 2 inches over the limit. Our usual UPS driver was on vacation and the new guy wouldn't take it. I remade the carton and and set the bumper aside. UPS was mad at us already for oversize shipping constantly.

When our usual driver got back, I explained the situation to him. It was still an inch over the limit! He looked at the box, turned it on one end, let the bumper slide down a bit then smacked it with his clipboard a couple of times, crumpling the end. He smiled and then said, "There, looks fine to me, oh and sorry about the transit damage!" :D

[YvetteKuhns]

I shipped a saddle to someone in Hawaii. She wanted this saddle well packaged to prevent damage to it. It was a real handmade western saddle and not one of those crappy synthetic ones. The box was big and heavy. We drove to the local United States Post Office and carried it behind the counter for the little lady who works there.

UPS costs more and seems to damage items. I bought an item on eBay that was shipped from Ohio to PA. Though we were home, they left the boxes (item packaged in two boxes and needed assembly) sit in the rain. The boxes were heavy and wet! They were difficult to carry and the stuff fell through the bottom of the boxes as we got inside. I was really angry.

We would not have found the boxes, but we had to go somewhere and as we got to the end of the driveway, we saw two boxes there. They didn't bother to come to the door. The cars were in the driveway, our lights were on and we were in the dining room eating dinner. The boxes were NOT in the driveway when Don came home from work, but they appeared before we left an hour later. I would love to boot that delivery person in the rear.

Whenever possible, try NOT to use UPS. One of my clients used DHL and liked them. She shipped large, heavy items such as fountains. I try not to send anything too big or heavy. Our local post office has been great so far and we are good to them.

While we are somewhat off-topic, this info may be useful to nova or anyone else who sells products online. ;)

[nova]

I shipped a saddle to someone in Hawaii. She wanted this saddle well packaged to prevent damage to it. It was a real handmade western saddle and not one of those crappy synthetic ones. The box was big and heavy. We drove to the local United States Post Office and carried it behind the counter for the little lady who works there.

UPS costs more and seems to damage items. I bought an item on eBay that was shipped from Ohio to PA. Though we were home, they left the boxes (item packaged in two boxes and needed assembly) sit in the rain. The boxes were heavy and wet! They were difficult to carry and the stuff fell through the bottom of the boxes as we got inside. I was really angry.

We would not have found the boxes, but we had to go somewhere and as we got to the end of the driveway, we saw two boxes there. They didn't bother to come to the door. The cars were in the driveway, our lights were on and we were in the dining room eating dinner. The boxes were NOT in the driveway when Don came home from work, but they appeared before we left an hour later. I would love to boot that delivery person in the rear.

Whenever possible, try NOT to use UPS. One of my clients used DHL and liked them. She shipped large, heavy items such as fountains. I try not to send anything too big or heavy. Our local post office has been great so far and we are good to them.

While we are somewhat off-topic, this info may be useful to nova or anyone else who sells products online. ;)

Yeh we know all about ups and package damage heh. But in this case its restrictions the manufacture places on the retailers. Basically many do not allow you to ship their products.

[CntrlEng1]

I just tried looking at your site. All I get is an empty page. I don't know why. Status bar says done.

[Doc C]

There is a thread regarding the above problem.