New 21st Century Website is up!

grunt1 · Post by **grunt1** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 11:42 pm

Title says it all..........

holensock · Post by **holensock** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 5:37 am

I love it! Makes me wanna get in the car and start the WM runs again! And go to the online stores and BUY BUY BUY!!! I LOVE THIS STUFF!!! Good job 21C!!

holensock · Post by **holensock** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 5:46 am

By the way... the kubelwagon in the background with the Dak soldiers...will it be showing up at Toy Fair? hmmmm.....

der Vogelfänger · Post by **der Vogelfänger** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 6:43 am

Excellent work...the site is VERY easy to use and is well done.

Bravo Zulu,

dV

Quixote511 · Post by **Quixote511** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 6:47 am

I like the look---but I am a bit slow I guess. It doesn't seem to archive all of the XD that the compnay has produced. The xD page gors from Bunnie to the Stuka zu Fuss and that's it. Or, is it too early in the morning for me to use the net well and I am just missing it all?

grunt1 · Post by **grunt1** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 7:05 am

holensock wrote:By the way... the kubelwagon in the background with the Dak soldiers...will it be showing up at Toy Fair? hmmmm.....

Hard to say.. The obstacles and sandbags that are with the other troops appear to be build-o-rama items so it might have just been included for flavor.. I sure hope it's real not only because a dakelwagen would be so cool, but because it means they have the original molds or made new ones!

Quixote511 wrote:It doesn't seem to archive all of the XD that the compnay has produced.

I don't think your missing it all. Perhaps TKO can tell us more but hopefully all of the old items will be added back at some point. Seems that I recall that they did not add the old stuff the last time they launched an updated site and it's only thanks to board members that we have any of those photos?

Tinman · Post by **Tinman** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 7:41 am

Looks good. I'm sure they'll be fleshing it out over the next week or two.

tkjaer21 · Post by **tkjaer21** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 7:45 am

It looks alot nicer. I can't wait to see all of their products listed.

blurx7 · Post by **blurx7** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 8:26 am

It looks great. At this hour, though, I think a lot of people must be trying to access it as it is, at least on my end, moving very slowly. I have a high-speed connection, and it is still moving like mud.

tko211 · Post by **tko211** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 1:03 pm

There is some heavy traffic right now on the site so I expect it to run sluggish for the moment.

To answer some questions: Yes indeed those little extra images like the sand bags, hedge hog and so on are added for flavor into the photos. Those nice little items were provided to me by Build-a-Rama. A huge thanks to those guys! They make some neat pieces for any collection.

There will be more products flushed out over time. There is simply no easy way to record and archive every single item that has ever been made by 21st in one web site that is easy to use. So while the older products will still be shown thru an archive devise later this week. You can expect that not every single piece will be in there.

The real focus of this new site is to show as much of what we can to be current / new / and in stock. Those items will be displayed on those main product pages. 1:32 scale page still needs to be flushed out this week. The agreed aproach was to show quickly and easily what is "in season" without adding confusion of older out of stock products. This new site will allow for easier, quicker and more current product showings in all scales. There are also a couple bells and wistles that are being added this week as well. This is just the Beta site for the next week.

I am glad everyone seems to like this one better. 21st and myself spent a lot of time the last month to develop this new site.

Quixote511 · Post by **Quixote511** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 2:33 pm

Yes it is nice----Maybe you can make mention on the new site to Grunt1's database that has photos of everything. Grunt has done a fantastic job of gathering the old photos.

tmanthegreat · Post by **tmanthegreat** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 4:58 pm

The new site looks great - much better organization! But, um, TKO, do you think you could switch the pictures in the 32x section... You have a picture of the Bf-109F under the G section and vice versa

tko211 · Post by **tko211** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 8:41 pm

Good catch! Yeah it looks those got switched in the development phase.

I will get her done tomorrow.