This might be somewhat off-topic for this group. If it is, I apologize and please delete this post.
A customer of ours asked to put his product catalog online. As an example he provided http://www.achatimedia.net/guides/sicli/catalogue_content.html. He also wants it to be searchable and there will be an e-commerce part. We explained that using Flash for this is not the best idea and that it is better to make sure that everything is categorized correctly and etc. etc.
He then asked if we had an example of the type of catalog we can build for him and that made me realize that I haven't seen the "perfect" catalog on the internet yet. All the online stores I've consulted always were lacking in one feature or another. They were missing the categorization I wanted to search for or I couldn't search on price AND something else or it was lacking a well-built faceted search or ...
I'd like to ask for examples of the most usable catalogs/stores here and if they are not perfect what they were lacking. What would the perfect catalog look like for you?