Change to the front page, now with credit app!

OK it's not some Earth-shattering update, but since I only recently learned how to make any changes at all, I'm pretty excited that I was able to improve Bournes.com. In the top line of links, we had "DIRECTIONS" before, but we already have a map on the right, so why do we need it twice? I left a link in to our old written directions in case the unthinkable happens and Google goes down, or if you just like paragraph directions instead.


Check out my MSPaint skills with the awesome yellow arrows pointing at the new link.

Before I did this, I would have to direct customers to find a car, open the detail page, and then locate the apply for credit button. This way it will be a whole lot easier for us to get you approved, and into the car you want.

(Yeah, Gerard had the idea to make the change AND the idea to blog about it. He's definitely an idea man, but I'm all action)

When was the last time we had a Murano?

Like the once-extinct coelacanth returning to the waters off the coast of South Africa, the Nissan Murano has made its triumphant return to Bourne's Auto Center. According to my extensive research, the last time we stocked even one of Nissan's hit crossover utility vehicles was in early May, which means that our Summer hours have come and gone, we've sold over 300 cars, and our dress code has gone from long pants to shorts and now back to long pants again. We've got three of 'em, silver, white, and black, each one All Wheel Drive.

If you look in the background of that picture, you can see the two Altimas we just got in as well.

New Photo Studio

If you've been on Bournes.com(and who hasn't?) and checked the pictures of our inventory then you know that sometimes I struggle with a too-bright sun which creates too many shadows, a blurry picture here and there(which happens when you take about 1,000 pictures a month while dodging cars and customers on the lot) and the occasional person in the background. Today, I took my very first set of photos in the new picture studio we just set up. Sure, it's just some tile and brighter lights off in a corner that used to have a bunch of broken down go karts and ATVs, but it ought to give us some uniformity, and hopefully a better look at our cars for our customers before they make the trip down to Easton.

As for how that first set came out, I have mixed feelings. I like that there's a good clean background(we have a large Bourne's logo for the wall coming in this week) and the outside pictures are good, but I think the flash isn't quite bright enough for interior shots in this new lighting system, but rumor has it there's an upgraded camera in my future, so that may be resolved without an elaborate system of flood lights.


Gerard Flaherty checks out the new area while Dave Olson does his morning calisthenics.