Opinions wanted: SWFA.com

[brutal]

Always like to see the breadcrumb link near the page top so I can find my way back, but when using it there, all the search options get dumped.

On the upside, at least the back button works and goes back to the filtered results page!

Also might be good to have same brand/family show as other choices when hitting an item.

I seem to recall the old site also had suggested items for the scopes like compatible mounts and such.

ETA: looks like another member mentioned a few of these already.

[fairrpe86]

My personal preference is to have an expanded menu, or mega menu (without fly-outs) on the main page. It seems to let people navigate easier and reduce the clicks required to reach a particular page. Just my $.02

[Marine24]

I've been shopping at SWFA for a number of years and big fan of their SWFA lines of scopes. Assume your update include their Samplelist.com, which is where they sell they used, demo...etc products.

Navigation is better on both sites compared to what they had before. Filters are very logical and typically the specs you want to search on. I've grown accustomed to their previous website, so took some retraining to get used to this one, but definitely an improvement.

[Wulf202]

Fix the forced mobile viewing. I hate that, I understand it being default but I can get it to go into desktop mode on my phone to even try the categories that a computer user gets. It makes me go elsewhere

[kidicarus13]

https://swfa.com/swarovski-2-16x50-z...lescope-6.html

$29,999?!

[J]

Sorry. No longer working with them. Maybe they will see this anyways.

It was an amicable split, and I still whole heartedly endorse them. Great guys and great supporters of shooting sports.

[izzy]

What are you developing the site with? I haven't done UI work in a long time and their making me use react on all these projects at work right now. I'm still not sold on it, might take me a while to like it. The one thing I noticed about the swfa site is that it's pretty slow. Guess it doesn't matter one way or the other now that you don't do work for them any longer.

[BladesNBarrels]

https://swfa.com/swarovski-2-16x50-z...lescope-6.html

$29,999?!

At least you get free shipping!

[J]

What are you developing the site with? I haven't done UI work in a long time and their making me use react on all these projects at work right now. I'm still not sold on it, might take me a while to like it. The one thing I noticed about the swfa site is that it's pretty slow. Guess it doesn't matter one way or the other now that you don't do work for them any longer.

Sorry. Don't discuss infrastructure of public sites. Especially on a public forum where any potential bad doers could find info in Google.

If you want to chat frameworks and react in general, I'm happy to do so. Let me know.

That said. I'm a big fan of react.

Now, THAT said, I haven't done a ton of direct development in a couple years. I'm senior management at a development agency. So I love it from a business perspective... From profitability to risk management to availability of talent to testability and quality. Not a ton of direct developer interaction from me. I did development for a lot of years, from juinor to lead roles, but never in react. I do like it in theory with it's componentization and all that jazz, putting on my Dev hat.

But my developers (50+ of them) all love it.

[izzy]

Fair enough. I just haven't done a ton of front end work since 2006 or so, things have changed a whole lot.