>Rick
>I must congratulate you on Surplus Direct the new interface looks realy very nice.

Thanks. I'd like to take credit for the interface, but there's a full design team
on staff that handles the aesthetic aspects of the site. However, in the process
of the new interface there have been significant changes on the site.

The biggest change is that the VFP servers now run against a SQL backend and we're
in the process of setting up a multi-server farm that will be handle *unlimited*
traffic (the site is currently chewing up 2-3 T1 connections and growing).


>
>Tell me how did you advertise your site when you started. You do get qut a high volume on this site.
>

Again, marketing is not my gig either. This site is not a small operation. The Internet
department (which includes marketing etc) is about 15 people - funny thing is that the
programmer pool is the smallest contingent and probably the most vital <bg>...

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