Comments on: MidwayUSA Launches Updated, Redesigned Website

By: kitchen table gunsmith

kitchen table gunsmith — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:38:15 +0000

I think the design of the site looks good. I konw from use that their website takes time to learn how to operate and is sensitive to spelling and where things are located at when you are searching. I tried to search for “Nosler 165gr Accubonds” like Jon and didnt find anything at first. When I seperated “165gr” to “165 gr” I got 7 results back. It is little things like that that take time to figure out. Once you do their site is easy to navigate just still very slow. But it is a little faster than what it use to be.

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:23:18 +0000

I don’t think .NET is the problem. In fact, I make my living converting crappy PHP sites over to .NET and SQL Server and my customers are always happier with it. However, whatever Midway is doing with their hosting servers or the way they structure their applications doesn’t make good use of the technology. Based on how difficult their interface still is to use vs. finding something at Bruno’s, Widener’s or Brownell’s sites, it’s a good indication that they don’t know what they’re doing. (At least they finally got my Nosler 165gr Accubond order out the door. Those are getting hard to find). I did a search on these and got no results back. While I didn’t do a search on Bruno’s, Midsouth or Powder Valley, all those were faster and easier to navigate to that bullet. Granted, they sell less variety of stuff, but still, once you click on bullets it shouldn’t take that long to get to where you want.

By: ocabj

ocabj — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:04:18 +0000

Unfortunately, MidwayUSA’s site still runs on .NET.

By: Wamin

Wamin — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:27:13 +0000

New website looks OK, still very slow and I have a FIOS fiber connection to the net. If it was a site I ran, I would have spent the time on the servers and connection or moved the site to a mainstream farm that can handle the bandwith. No real improvement on the user end.