Dear RGC Patrons,
January 2025 Update: We built a brand new website in August....THEN, we were told the new Credit Card gatewat doesn't interface with the platform we built it on, after we were explicitely told that it would...Basically, we were sold a bad product. believe it or not, the very same thing happened to us during a revision and rebuild of the site in 2012....Salesman will say anything to sell you. The Good news is that we WILL rebuild the site in 2025, as we have no choice....Looking like Summer 2025. In the mean time, the old site works just fine.
August 2024 Update: We have had some issues with the website in the past 2 weeks.......Our web host, through a migration error for security updates, (Yes, the glitch that made the news) LOST ALL OF OUR PRODUCT LISTINGS AND PRODUCTS. Essentially, the E-Commerce portion of the site was lost, and lost for good! This was a disaster for us of epic proportions!! That was the Bad news. The good news is that it forced us to rebuild the website, which was something we needed to do really,...in 2023. Every so often, a website needs to be rebuilt. This site goes back to 2014, and the platform it was built on was state of the art when new, but that means the 1990's.....So, the site is old, and while the website is SUPER SECURE, and all of the product pages are "MCSSL" pages, The new Microsoft EDGE Browser didn't recognize our security certificate. Our Security Certificate is registered to our Web Host, not US directly, and there is no way to link it to the old platform. Bottom line: If you open our site in the EDGE Browser, you get a warning message, and there is no way for us to fix it, save to replace the entire site on a different (Not Outdated) platform. We're gun guys here, not computer guys, but even we understand that.......
So, what have we been doing the last two weeks? We have been attempting to restore the old site, while simultaneously building out the new web home. How did we do?
The old site (This one) is fully restored, through a bit of luck, and hard work on the part of our web host. They were getting sued, so they did have some motivation...lol....anyway, the old site is up and running again, and the NEW site is finished.....Except for product upload. As soon as we do that, we will flip the switch, and the new site will go live. We are anticipating October of this year. The new site will be streamlined, cleaner, easier to navigate and maintain, and is 2025 state of the art. That being said, it was my STRONG DESIRE to have the new site maintain continuity with the old one. More than half of our business are repeat customers, and I wanted to maintain a look to our site that is familiar, and retains our company's personality. I think we did pretty good. I'll attach a screenshot below.
We appreciate your patience during the remodel, and thank you for taking the time to read this.
Sincerely,
G. Vincent Caprio
We'll be changing and tweaking, but the nuts and bolts of the site are finished....
Very happy with the results...
