Like the Bob Dylan song, titled a little like this post, times are changing; not only in life and on the streets, but also on the internet. No longer can you have just a web page with a generic shopping cart, throw a bunch of money at some ad campaign, and expect to be an instant hit.
And it isn’t all about the money any more either. People actually want to int ...
Since I launched the shopping cart I have been keeping an eye on how many people are registering and using the shopping cart. I am always looking for ways to make the shopping and browsing experience better as we transition to the finalized website](http://wexfordjewelers.com). It was while I was looking at this that I noticed no one was adding anything to their shopping carts.
I found a bug that was preventing it from working and have fixed it. I have tested it on my development server and on the main ...
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:
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!
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?
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 ...
