Guides

A week spent creating a couple of guides for the new website. The main one, which took the time, is a list of the bulbs (e.g. dipped headlight, rear indicator...) for each of the main models of cars, covering the 39 main makes and 999 variants of models that have been produced in recent years. It uses the very trendy AJAX, you select a make and you get a drop-down of all the models for them, without having to hit another web page.

In many ways the difficulty in getting the guide together was working out what a customer would want to see rather than what the manufacturers supply, charts that really only a garage mechanic could use. Next we'll be expanding it to cover all sorts of parts which should help make our site the best for automotive customers - tell it which model you have and it'll point you at just which accessories you need.

The other one's a size guide for the lingerie section, tells you exactly what small, medium, large, etc. mean. That one's technically a lot easier while shopping for lingerie from our point of view is much more complicated due to the combinations of options, usually size v colour, allowed. Again we shoulder the difficulties to make things for our customers as easy as possible.