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    MacBean is offline Oops, it seems this member needs to update their email address
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    OK, you asked!

    The original (2 years ago) Casual Kilt web pages made one choose between different fabric types, and then took one to a set of pages where one could view lots of tartans on a page, but had to choose A-D, E-L, M-MacB, etc. Remember that? It had the nice feature that you could browse tartans in bulk; not many sites allow that. On the other hand, unless you knew in advance which fabric had MacBean Ancient, you had to try them all, and click on all the letter groups until one heard Bingo!

    Then this all went missing in a massive simplification. I like simplification, but this was too much. I suspect you are hoping that Casual Kilt sales lead to more lucrative allegiances of customers...they're important. My first kilt was a B&S Casual (as recommended here many times), and it worked well for me. I still like it. Nice light weight kilt.

    The new Casual purports to resolve all prior problems. You choose your fabric and your tartan and snap!, the tartan appears. Only it doesn't reliably.

    For example, try Heavy (Strome) and MacBean Ancient. It seems like it uploaded something, but instead one gets the default kilt and no indication that this is out of stock (is that right?).

    The correct solution is to have the programmer filter the tartan list based on fabric weight and inStock = true, so that you only see tartans that you have. That way you don't have to click on a tartan name to see if it appears. At the very list, out of stock items should announced themselves rather than defaulting to the default kilt image. PM me if this is unclear. It's close, and I do think it's better.

    I might still like to have access to the old browse tartan pages just for reference if it were easy to do.
    Last edited by MacBean; 13th May 11 at 04:59 PM.

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