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Title: Eric's New Website Page
Post by: mercury-man on December 22, 2007, 04:42:06 PM
Check it out (Coolcats.net) you won't be sorry by far the coolest one yet.
Title: Eric's New Website Page
Post by: MexCougar on December 22, 2007, 07:13:16 PM
ohhhh my god , Mr. Dess, thats really  nice !!!! 
 
  It`s a nice birthday gift :D

  I didn`t know what the site have 10 years old. We`ll see in 2017 the convertible hoover conversion...
Title: Eric's New Website Page
Post by: ZondaC12 on December 22, 2007, 07:19:15 PM
Sweet! Great job. A few extra new tidbits of info I hadn't yet heard either!
 
 
Long live Fox Thundercat-nuts and the cars they keep close by their sides! :cheers:
Title: Eric's New Website Page
Post by: BEARMAX on December 23, 2007, 12:36:40 AM
''Although we all love the cars for our own reasons, it is the people that make them worth celebrating. Never forget that''

 eric i couldnt agree more .i love that we are all a big family and i love the new page ...thank you for makeing this happen
Title: Eric's New Website Page
Post by: jcassity on December 23, 2007, 02:23:25 AM
Quote from: BEARMAX;194035
''Although we all love the cars for our own reasons, it is the people that make them worth celebrating. Never forget that''

 eric i couldnt agree more .i love that we are all a big family and i love the new page ...thank you for makeing this happen


that sums it up for me to.  The site has a "feel good" to it also.
Title: Eric's New Website Page
Post by: Innes on December 23, 2007, 08:09:29 AM
looking good
Title: Eric's New Website Page
Post by: Kitz Kat on December 23, 2007, 08:14:42 AM
So thats why my homepage quit working.
looks good actually reread a lot of info.
Title: Eric's New Website Page
Post by: 1WLD BRD on December 23, 2007, 08:51:47 AM
Quote from: kitzdnm;194058
So thats why my homepage quit working.
looks good actually reread a lot of info.



X2

Thumbs up here....;)
Title: Eric's New Website Page
Post by: daminc on December 23, 2007, 09:36:36 AM
Great looking site. I'm also re-reading it. seems to load faster also
Title: Eric's New Website Page
Post by: tc² on December 23, 2007, 03:13:05 PM
Lookin' good Eric.  That's the site that got me into Foxes!
Title: Eric's New Website Page
Post by: gopedxr7 on December 23, 2007, 03:13:33 PM
awesome job by eric once again!

Alan
Title: Eric's New Website Page
Post by: Cougar5.0 on December 23, 2007, 03:15:52 PM
I checked it out - it's cool. I especially like how I was so quickly able to get to where I wanted using the drop-down menus.
Title: Eric's New Website Page
Post by: EricCoolCats on December 23, 2007, 06:24:46 PM
Thanks, everyone! I appreciate the comments. Thanks to Alex for getting some of the sections ready just in time for launch. Enjoy. :)

Hrrrmmmm....nobody's mentioned that they found the huge new addition yet...
Title: Eric's New Website Page
Post by: LittleAngel1198 on December 23, 2007, 07:20:15 PM
hmm, which new addition?
Search engine?
New Logo?
Sponsor site links (Shriner's, Angels)?
Title: Eric's New Website Page
Post by: daminc on December 23, 2007, 07:39:48 PM
The download section?
Title: Eric's New Website Page
Post by: oldraven on December 23, 2007, 10:53:02 PM
(http://www.coolcats.net/images/toplogo.jpg)

That 10th Anny logo is a nice touch. Nice work, guys.:cheers:
Title: Eric's New Website Page
Post by: EricCoolCats on December 23, 2007, 11:24:17 PM
LOL That's my attempt at what would be a nice C-pillar emblem, if I had the money to make them.

Keep looking for the addition...you'll know it when you see it...the page is rather long...
Title: Eric's New Website Page
Post by: BEARMAX on December 23, 2007, 11:51:44 PM
I Know The State Of The Cat Was A Long Page
Title: Eric's New Website Page
Post by: tc² on December 24, 2007, 12:09:34 AM
I particularly enjoyed the Cougars from movies and such...
Title: Eric's New Website Page
Post by: Clayton on December 24, 2007, 12:17:40 AM
the about eric page lol
Title: Eric's New Website Page
Post by: baxo on December 24, 2007, 01:48:08 AM
Quote from: tc²;194198
I particularly enjoyed the Cougars from movies and such...

you found the page eric was talking about :)
Title: Eric's New Website Page
Post by: EricCoolCats on December 24, 2007, 09:14:44 AM
Close...keep looking...
Title: Eric's New Website Page
Post by: yellow86coogr on December 24, 2007, 09:43:14 AM
HEY ERIC!
Only 10 years? Seems like it's been around a whole lot longer than that. Finding the site on Yahoo is most likely the reason I always use Yahoo. I could not find it on any other search engine for what seemed like forever. Happy 10th on the site Dude. Congrats!!!:burnout:
Title: Eric's New Website Page
Post by: cougarman on December 24, 2007, 09:45:02 AM
Quote from: EricCoolCats;194218
Close...keep looking...


Is it the restoration section?
Title: Eric's New Website Page
Post by: daminc on December 24, 2007, 09:57:05 AM
I think we've run out of huge sections
the MN12 section is lookin pretty big. although if it was there before I would have never needed to go there
Title: Eric's New Website Page
Post by: EricCoolCats on December 24, 2007, 10:08:13 AM
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Finding the site on Yahoo is most likely the reason I always use Yahoo. I could not find it on any other search engine for what seemed like forever.

Yahoo was VERY good to me for about the first 5 years of the site's existence. Back then it was the #1 player. I remember that it took about 2 hours (on dialup!) to fully categorize the site using Yahoo's system. It was torture. But almost immediately the results came in so it was definitely worth it. At one point nearly half the people I asked had said they found the site on Yahoo's search engine. So you're one of the originals. :)

HINT: Don't look for a section...look for a page (or two). Restoration is close...actually this page will help greatly with restoration and eventually will be linked to it...
Title: Eric's New Website Page
Post by: daminc on December 24, 2007, 10:20:41 AM
If its help for restoration, I would have to say the parts # page.
and its new
Title: Eric's New Website Page
Post by: Cougar5.0 on December 24, 2007, 10:26:29 AM
Quote from: daminc;194232
If its help for restoration, I would have to say the parts # page.
and its new


That has to be it. There is a "NEW" tag next to those and you know it took a lot of work to put all that together!!

Thanks Eric!!
Title: Eric's New Website Page
Post by: daminc on December 24, 2007, 11:03:02 AM
This is like trying to find Waldo.  lol
Title: Eric's New Website Page
Post by: EricCoolCats on December 24, 2007, 12:15:05 PM
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I would have to say the parts # page.
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That has to be it. There is a "NEW" tag next to those and you know it took a lot of work to put all that together!!

Yup, you guys got it. Only took me 2 years of my life to compile that. ;)
Title: Eric's New Website Page
Post by: V8Demon on December 24, 2007, 12:24:08 PM
I have never seen such a fantastic parts list for any other type of vehicle on the web.  Mustang guys have something to be jealous about....;)
Title: Eric's New Website Page
Post by: EricCoolCats on December 24, 2007, 12:54:03 PM
LOL Thanks. I got most of the info from crash sheets and it seems to be mostly correct. There are a few things that don't jive well to me...they have to be mistakes but I have no way to corroborate that yet, so for now, what's there is the best known list of part numbers available. Also, I'm sure Brent has access to more things than I do. Hopefully in the future we can get together and fill in some of the blanks, double-check things, etc. It's going to be a "work in progress" probably for a few more years and input is always appreciated.

I had a few goals with the part number pages: first and foremost, to make sure that everyone can communicate with some base of reference. Now you understand why I say things are different; the part numbers tell a good deal of every part's story. Second, so that people looking up part numbers for our cars on the Internet will find that page for verification/legitimacy. Third, so that people with mobile devices that have Internet capability can access that page at any time, in case something needs to be checked, say, at a swap meet or on an eBay auction. I'm thinking about (finally) doing a mobile-only version of the site and those part number pages are the top priority. Eventually I'd like to add some photos where possible.

The crash sheets are the same ones you can occasionally find on eBay. There are reference drawings on them, but they're way too small to effectively scan. Same for the part numbers; they were just too small for any OCR program to pick up. So those are all input by hand...hey, I'm Catholic so I'm used to ic things. Oh wait...shouldn't have said that. Another thing on the list to burn in hell for LOL. I started the 1983-86 page two years ago (January 2006). It was finished on Monday, Dec. 17, 2007 then I copied the page to use for 1987-88 part numbers. Oddly, it only took another 2-3 hours to complete that page. I didn't expect to have both pages completely finished for the relaunched site but luck apparently was on my side.

So...use the living  out of those pages. That's what they're there for. :D
Title: Eric's New Website Page
Post by: Kitz Kat on December 24, 2007, 01:06:38 PM
"So...use the living  out of those pages. That's what they're there for."
 
This turned into top notch page!!
Title: Eric's New Website Page
Post by: HAVI on December 28, 2007, 10:28:34 PM
I was doing a google search on Ford rear gas caps, and the coolcats concept cars page popped up.  Excellent!!!!.....I learned something new today.
Title: Eric's New Website Page
Post by: 20th anny 5.o on December 29, 2007, 11:24:14 AM
That is awesome Eric. I remember years back before i joined the board in High school screwing around on the computers in English reading up on the foxes and checking out pictures that were posted on cool cats instead of doing my assignments.