We just added Volk Racing and Gram Lights to the database.

IMPORTANT: The new lines are not automatically added to your online shop. You must login and activate each line if you want to carry it in your store. To do so: Login to Admin, Click Items, Check the checkboxes next to each line you want on your online shop, Hit Update.

This brings our total counts to: 92 brands, 2,777 groups, 69,704 items, 145,820 vehicles and 1,456,632 item-application links!

Got a product line you need added? Email matt@rpmware.com and we’ll work it into the schedule.

We’ll do product demonstrations, walk thru features, show off whatever we’re working on and answer any questions. We’ll also discuss online marketing and the best ways to get your business noticed online.

Important Information Location: https://connect.acrobat.com/rpmtour Time: Every Thursday 1:00 PM until 2:00 PM EST (Come any time, you don’t have to come on time or stay the whole time.)

Once you connect to the url above you will be asked to call in to a phone number to get the audio of the webcast. Come prepared with lots of questions.

Looks likes our friends at Mitsubishi are putting the finishing touches on the new Evolution X. Let’s keep our fingers crossed this will be everything the Evo VII/IX was and more. So far, it looks good.

We’ll do product demonstrations, walk thru features, show off whatever we’re working on and answer any questions. We’ll also discuss online marketing and the best ways to get your business noticed online.

Important Information Location: https://connect.acrobat.com/rpmtour Time: Every Thursday 1:00 PM until 2:00 PM EST (Come any time, you don’t have to come on time or stay the whole time.)

Once you connect to the url above you will be asked to call in to a phone number to get the audio of the webcast. Come prepared with lots of questions.

After getting started on a couple of requested sitemaps it quickly become evident I needed a better way. So, stay up a couple hours later and it’s done. Your sitemaps are available at: http://yourdomain.com/Sitemap.aspx If you have any questions please let me know. You can read more about sitemaps in this Wikipedia article. Also make sure you submit your sitemap to each of the supported search engines (Google, Yahoo!, Ask.com and MSN). All this information is also available in your admin area under XML.

Overnight and this morning we pushed the first phase of our new release public (the front end). We’ve listened to your critiques, comments and suggestions and rebuilt the front of the website to address them.

Search

Every site now has keyword search. It will search your Brands, Categories, Product Groups and PartNumbers. Currently it does not search the vehicles. We did this by choice to limit the number of results but if you have strong opinions one way or the other on that we’re open to your suggestions. Try It

Product Groups

You no longer have to select a vehicle to see parts under a group (although you still can). When a vehicle is not selected the site will prompt you to select a make to see all parts available for that make. When a vehicle is selected the site will show results for that vehicle high on the page next to the product image as well as allow browsers to view all the available parts below. See It

Google Sitemaps

Ask and you shall receive. Anyone who wants one can have one, but you have to e-mail me as it is a manual process right now. We’ll integrate it into the admin area soon. First come, first served, please allow 48 hours turnaround. kyle@rpmware.com

Better Description Formatting

We’ve implemented a wiki engine to parse the descriptions and output clean html. You may or make not notice it, but all the product descriptions look much nicer.

Bug Fixing

We’ve knocked out 99% of the bugs we are aware of. There are still a few stragglers that are vexing us (Google Analytics is one); however, you should notice a much smoother and faster browsing experience. If anything does bite you please let us know.

Data Audit

The data audit is officially done. If you see any issues or inaccuracies please let us know.

Just as the title says … we’ve only got a couple more makes to go. Let us know if you see any issues. Thanks!

Well Im sure you guys cringe every time I make a post like this ‘cause you assume Im playing games instead of maintaining data for you - but I swear Im not! :)

My XBox is in for repairs, and has been there for over a month… I haven;t even been able to enjoy Forza 2 (see past post) and I get hit with this:

Get ready for the next generation of Gran Turismo, with the FIFTH installment of the revolutionary series. Rumor has it no one’s gonna get a taste until it’s release in Spring 2008, but that gives Microsoft time to repair my XBox… it *better* be back by then.

Thanks to everyone who showed up for the first live support session. We got a lot of questions answered and hopefully will be seeing some beautiful designs pop up soon from you guys.

For those that missed it, we:

• Reviewed how to create your own brands, product groups and items.
• Talked about customizing the site design both with custom headers/footers and custom css style sheets.
• Did a quick tutorial on using the Firefox Web Developer Toolbar.
• Discussed our upcoming release, data audit and feature requests.

If you missed it plan on being there next week.

IMPORTANT NOTE: We are changing the time to 1PM EST effective next Thursday (7/19) so the West Coast guys don’t have to get up so early.

We’ll do product demonstrations, walk thru features, show off whatever we’re working on and answer any questions. We’ll also discuss online marketing and the best ways to get your business noticed online.

Important Information Location: https://connect.acrobat.com/rpmtour Time: Every Thursday 11:00 AM until Noon EST (Come any time, you don’t have to come on time or stay the whole time.)

Once you connect to the url above you will be asked to call in to a 800 number to get the audio of the webcast. Come prepared with lots of questions.