Yesterday was a big day for us, as we move towards building this site for the community out there. Yesterday we launched our membership signup and shopping cart! Now you can join the Wexford Jewelers crowd and have your own account.

What will this allow you to do? Right now it will allow you to purchase our jewelry. But in the very near future here are a few things that are being launched:

• Comment on and rate the Jewelry
• Comment on our Blog; soon to be integrated on the front page
• Join contest
• Help design and mold this site to your t ...

For those of you who are a little more than curious, I have posted a safe early beta of the site now online. The features set is small currently, but won’t change. I am adding purchasing, etc as we go here. You can currently browse some of our inventory and make a wishlist. Enjoy!

Wexford Jewelers

Update: Well it’s been a rough start, and there are a few navigation bugs still. But all in all I think this launch is going pretty well. I’ve added permalinks and digg / reddit / stumbleupon / del.icio.us buttons to help some of you navigate directly to an item better. I will be putting another post up soon announcing w ...

What does staying up until 4 am accomplish?

• Extreme tiredness
• Pity from your wife
• and; A nearly completed Jewelry website!

Yep, we’re almost there! I’m hoping to post a browse only version today so everyone can start looking through our inventory. This is a bare bones system at this point, but it’s getting there. I’m going to be integrating the blog post into it today or tomorrow, turning on the shopping cart tomorrow or tuesday, and working on the comment/rating system this week. Hopefull ...

After a nightmarish time of digging through cache, old rss feeds, and server logs, I am happy to announce that everything - minus one post - is back online. Huzzah!

Now you guys can get back to reading real post by people who write a lot better than me. I’m just the techie typing, appropriately, from my darkened office at 5 in the morning. Sleep is for people who don’t have major sites to launch.

Speaking of which, the new site is coming along fabulously! During the restore of everything, and creating a better back up system, I delved into optimizing the speed of page loading. The site can now search thr ...

We um … are alive today. I’m really sorry for the down time. I also feel the need to apologize for all the articles that are down, and to explain what’s happened.

Last night I started a backup on our server. It was an update unrelated to the blog, but on the same server. Apparently the cpu pegged and our server locked up. After hours of attempts to bring the beast back to life I had to migrate to a new one. I am currently migrating the old articles up here, as well as the rest of the data, but it may take most of the weekend to get all of that back.

I’m asking everyone to be patient. I’m taking steps to make sure that this wil not happen again. Thanks to everyone that has been v ...