Web-based siding material matching system

A Web-based method of facilitating identification of matching or comparable siding material for a building, comprising:

• providing online access to a computer network server containing a database of siding materials organized by surface profile and grain information for a plurality of siding material products, including currently available and discontinued products, from different siding manufacturers;
• prompting an online user to select a desired siding surface profile in said database;
• and
• prompting said user to select a desired grain type for said selected surface profile in said database.

A Web-based method of facilitating identification of matching or comparable siding material for a building, comprising:

• creating a database of images of siding materials organized by surface profile and grain information for a plurality of siding material products, including currently available and discontinued products, from different siding manufacturers;
• providing online access to said database from a remote user computer;
• displaying images of a plurality of siding surface profiles in said database simultaneously on the screen of said remote user computer for comparison with a siding sample obtained from said building;
• prompting a user of said remote computer to select a desired siding surface profile in said database from said siding surface profile images displayed simultaneously on the screen of said remote user computer;
• displaying images of a plurality of siding grain types in said database simultaneously on the screen of said remote user computer for comparison with said siding sample from said building;
• prompting said user to select a desired grain type in said database from said siding grain images displayed simultaneously on the screen of said remote user computer;
• displaying images of a plurality of siding material products substantially matching the siding surface profile and siding grain type selected by said user.

A Web-based method of facilitating identification of matching or comparable siding material for a building, comprising:

• providing online access to a computer network server containing a database of images of siding materials organized by surface profile and grain information for a plurality of siding material products, including currently available and discontinued products, from different siding manufacturers;
• prompting an online user to select a desired siding surface profile in said database by visual comparison of siding surface profile images to a given siding sample;
• and
• prompting said user to select a desired grain type for said selected siding surface profile in said database by visual comparison of siding grain type images to said siding sample.

A Web-based method of facilitating identification of matching or comparable siding material for a building, comprising:

• creating a database of images of siding materials organized by surface profile and grain information for a plurality of siding material products, including currently available and discontinued products, from different siding manufacturers;
• providing online access to said database from a remote user computer;
• displaying images of a plurality of siding surface profiles in said database simultaneously on the screen of said remote user computer for visual comparison with a siding sample obtained from said building;
• prompting a user of said remote computer to select a desired siding surface profile in said database from said siding surface profile images displayed simultaneously on the screen of said remote user computer;
• displaying images of a plurality of siding grain types in said database simultaneously on the screen of said remote user computer for visual comparison with said siding sample from said building;
• prompting said user to select a desired grain type in said database from said siding grain images displayed simultaneously on the screen of said remote user computer;
• and
• displaying images of a plurality of siding material products from different siding manufacturers substantially matching the siding surface profile and siding grain type selected by said user.