Wilder Amplification is back up and online

Wilder Amplification · 10-29-2009, 01:32 AM

I've received PMs from a few people on here notifying me of the fact that for some reason they couldn't see the pics I had up on the site. So I went in search of a solution and found that I had a shitload of errors in my page coding that affect certain browsers, mainly IE7, which I don't have to test with (I use IE8 and Mozilla Firefox as well as the fact that I'm just getting the hang of XHTML/CSS). So I spent some time this evening going through and correcting all of my coding errors on the site. All the pics should be visible and everything should be back up and online.

If anyone is still having issues with the site feel free to PM me with the problem and I'll see what I can do.

JohnH · 10-29-2009, 04:46 AM

The site works for me, but Im in IE8. Looking forward to seeing more on it.

And hey, Im impressed with your expertise, if I was in the US and had an amp that needed a fix or an upgrade, I'd certainly consider sending it to you! - you've shown us that you know what you are talkin' about!

cheers

John

Wilder Amplification · 10-29-2009, 12:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JohnH

The site works for me, but Im in IE8. Looking forward to seeing more on it.

And hey, Im impressed with your expertise, if I was in the US and had an amp that needed a fix or an upgrade, I'd certainly consider sending it to you! - you've shown us that you know what you are talkin' about!

cheers

John

Thanks for the kind words John. Early on I knew there'd be misinformation and I'm one that doesn't like to be misled (who does?) so I made it my sole mission to learn all that I can and see to it that I know more than the salesmen who pose as "experts" to get a sale. And this was the end result.

After awhile once you've learned a fair amount, things just come to you automatically and become common sense to you. It's my goal to educate others in a way that makes it become common sense to them as well.

I've always liked the ones who take the "OK this is how it is...blah blah blah"...straight up to the point with the "I really don't give a shit if I bruise your ego or not, this is fact and this is the real deal and you can dispute it all you want but fact is fact and there's no changing that fact" approach, not the ones who use the "raise the string of doubt" approach. That's how you spot a snake oil salesmen...every one of them uses that tactic. The second they start saying things like "OH...you haven't heard the latest have you? Well, blah blah blah" or try to play up the fact that "We've discovered a new phenomenon that no one else has yet and we even have a patent on it blah blah blah" you know they're nothing but a snake oil salesmen. The ones of us who just come on and say "OK here's the deal..." and don't care who we offend in the process because it goes against everything they were led to believe and they don't want to feel like they've been misled by the previous guy who filled their head full of bullshit so they'd rather flame the one who's actually giving them the real 411...those are the guys to listen to. I feel that it's much more beneficial to both me and my customer to be as straight up as possible regardless if the customer wants to get offended over my semantics because he can research the info I give him anywhere and see that I'm not bullshitting him and once that customer knows "Hey he might be a bit harsh, brash, blunt, whatever, but he's obviously not trying to get a quick sale if he's taking that approach and he really seems to know his shit compared to some other salesmen I've dealt with." It does hit people wrong at first, but in the end they realize that I won't mislead them or fill their head with a bunch of bullshit marketing hype.

Wilder Amplification · 11-03-2009, 12:29 AM

OK...finally, all of the IE7 errors on my site have all been fixed. I managed to downgrade my browser from IE8 to IE7 so I could see what the fuck was going on and my valve pages that list all the valves I carry was being pushed over to the right. I managed to rework the HTML code so that now everything appears as it should in IE7, IE8 and Mozilla Firefox.

Anybody who has any issues viewing the site please email me at jonwilder@wilderamplification.com so I can get on it immediately.

Wilder Amplification · 11-04-2009, 09:33 PM

OK...site is fully functional and is viewable in IE7, IE8 and Mozilla Firefox.

I did experience one thing that I thought I'd make everyone aware of. Some anti-phishing filters don't like going to my site and may give you a warning that the site is not secure and not to give out credit card info, blah blah blah.

First off...we are a brand new company with limited capital and we're just getting off the ground. So in an attempt to reduce overhead, for now my site is being hosted by my own web server that I've built out of a home PC. This cuts my costs down since I only have to pay for the domain name itself, and I have full control of the server by doing things this way. However, my connection uses a dynamic IP address, and I've just learned that anti-phishing filters do not like dynamic IP addresses. This is what ends up triggering the warning. There are absolutely no threats imposed by my server at all.

Second off...credit card processing is not done through my server. All of the merchant services/credit card processing is done through PayPal, which I'm sure everyone here has used in the past. My site hosts the "Add To Cart" buttons and the "View Cart" buttons, but these buttons simply just re-direct you to PayPal's virtual shopping cart, which has my logo to keep the site/cart feel the same, but is hosted by PayPal. Once you're ready to check out and you click the "Proceed To Checkout" button, again this redirects you to the site where you have the option to log into your PayPal account or just simply enter in your payment information and have PayPal process the order for you, which then deposits it into our PayPal account. You DO NOT have to have a PayPal account to purchase from us.

Again, all of the merchant processing is all done through PayPal...my website and host server is just the host for the PayPal "Add To Cart" and "View Cart" buttons to redirect you to PayPal's secure cart and checkout pages to process the payment.

If anyone has experienced a warning in the past when going to our site, there's nothing to worry about and you can bypass the warning, and rest assured that PayPal provides the secure merchant services for Wilder Amplification and is all processed via PayPal, not the Wilder Amplification web server. We are working on getting a static IP address which will hopefully stop this warning from popping up, but for now rest assured that we take internet security very seriously here at Wilder Amplification and there is nothing to worry about if you happen to get the warning.

nofearfactor · 11-05-2009, 01:30 AM

I may want to check into those Mercury transformer upgrades on a few amps. I have a place up at Arnold near Bear Valley and will up there all of December thru March or so. My mom is in Sunnyvale,so when I go visit my mom I could swing up to Rohnert Park and talk to you about it?

Wilder Amplification · 11-05-2009, 01:34 AM

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Originally Posted by nofearfactor

I may want to check into those Mercury transformer upgrades on a few amps. I have a place up at Arnold near Bear Valley and will up there all of December thru March or so. My mom is in Sunnyvale,so when I go visit my mom I could swing up to Rohnert Park and talk to you about it?

Yep...give me a call and let me know.

I'm still in the middle of building the Mercury pages so I've only gotten one upgrade listed so far. However I can pretty much perform a transformer upgrade on anything you want.

10-29-2009, 04:46 AM	#2 (permalink)
JohnH Senior Member Join Date: May 2008 Location: Wollongong NSW Posts: 780	Re: Wilder Amplification is back up and online The site works for me, but Im in IE8. Looking forward to seeing more on it. And hey, Im impressed with your expertise, if I was in the US and had an amp that needed a fix or an upgrade, I'd certainly consider sending it to you! - you've shown us that you know what you are talkin' about! cheers John __________________ DSL401 8412 cab Crate Powerblock 1 x 12 Vintage 30 cab '76 Shergold Masquerader '93 Les Paul Studio '83 Roadstar

11-05-2009, 01:30 AM	#6 (permalink)
nofearfactor Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: cold,dark... Posts: 228	Re: Wilder Amplification is back up and online I may want to check into those Mercury transformer upgrades on a few amps. I have a place up at Arnold near Bear Valley and will up there all of December thru March or so. My mom is in Sunnyvale,so when I go visit my mom I could swing up to Rohnert Park and talk to you about it? __________________ myspace- http://www.myspace.com/nofearfactor some gear pics- http://community.webshots.com/album/...ecurity=QbSaeN

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