Revised Peak Website Is Up (Woops)

[AFAustin]

There it is: http://www.peakledsolutions.net/Intro.html

Edit: I apologize. Just noticed that this is covered in the "Peak Website down" thread (though I guess the title probably needs an edit).

 

[icecube]

Re: Revised Peak Website Is Up

Heylo,

The main page could use some revision!

I get a message saying I need Flashplayer/shockwave. Site navigation is fine. I use NoScript for Firefox and all scripting was allowed. Denied the site cookie.

=)

 

[cave dave]

Wow! I have to hand it to Peak. They made a website that was worse than the previous one! Thats quite an achievement as the old one was quite bad.
Can we nominate them for an award?
http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/

Slower to load, less information, hard to navigate, accessories / options info unavailable. No way to know what the difference between models is unless you click on every single link. Ya gotta hand it to em!
:whoopin:

 

[icecube]

Recently I have been observing the excessive use of JavaScript, like at courttvred.com.

arcflashlight.com is one nice site. Excessive use of JavaScript boggles the site down and makes it tacky.

 

[paulr]

I agree, this is total crap. I don't want to use that plug-in. If I want to buy another Peak light now (I think I have 4 so far), I guess my only way to do it is by posting a WTB on B/S/T.

 

[arty]

Special order and body purchases

They have a search function that lists all the lights by output level.
It would be nice if they had the accessories listed, as on the older site.

I wonder if you can order a light, and then list bodies, etc. on the special order page? For example, can you request a stainless Matterhorn head and pocket HA body when buying the light?

This is a question for the moderators....

 

[cnw4002]

indefense of peak, the arc has like what 1 light to sell, so there site doesnt need only one page

 

[SoundMix]

The Peak site tells me I need Flash. I have the latest Flash, and have verified that it works properly on the Adobe site. Peak needs their web designers to clean up their act.

 

[idleprocess]

I hate Flash websites. I definitely won't be putzing around with yet another unnecessary Flash upgrade for Peak's benefit.

 

[fenix_fan]

This is one of the most hopeless web sites I have visited.
-- slows my mouse down and makes it "sticky".

Peak Led are getting some very bad web advice....

 

[nine]

They may also be building it themselves, thus getting no web advice. Engineers can be rather stubborn, I work for a few who apparently managed to get Joomla up and functional without knowing that the administration panel even existed. They just recoded the scripts and setup the database tables directly.

 

[Radio]

What a Horrible interface!

 

[SEMIJim]

Took me all of one click, the URL in the first post to this thread, and that was it. "Requires Flash" will cause me to leave immediately every time.

I find it particularly amusing when designers embed the Flash tags within ActiveX tags. Our proxy servers at work chop ActiveTrojan tags right out and the Flash tags go with 'em.

 

[arewethereyetdad]

Guys, I agree their website still needs improvement, but let's cut 'em some slack. They're working on improving it, at our request, and it's in a constant state of flux. Let's not be overly critical of them, OK? They're good people there at Peak and they're trying to give us what we want.

 

[greenlight]

I find the clicking sounds annoying, and the slow fade for the sub-menus makes them seem like they're not working.

 

[AFAustin]

I'm with Dad on this----Peak's one of the good guys and always has been. Glad they're working on their website and I'll stay tuned.

I'm really looking forward to hearing more on the new Volcano series (and also hoping I won't need a home equity loan to afford one!).

 

[jburgett]

I'd rather have excellent lights and an average website than the other way around!

I encourage Peak to keep their "focus" :laughing: on the lights.

 

[paulr]

The problem isn't that they started with a bad website and haven't yet managed to dedicate enough effort to making it good. It's that they started out with an ok website and then squandered a ton of effort in making it BAD.

 

[arewethereyetdad]

The problem isn't that they started with a bad website and haven't yet managed to dedicate enough effort to making it good. It's that they started out with an ok website and then squandered a ton of effort in making it BAD.

How do you know that they "squandered a ton of effort in making it bad?" Do you have this on inside authority, or is it a guess?

 

[paulr]

Well, I don't know how to quantify the effort in tons, all I really know is that it took some effort and made the site worse, while leaving it alone would have taken zero effort and not made it worse.