Web Site Pages ‘Completed’

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Well, I’ve stirred the soup up quite a bit, and as promised, have completed the Style Guide Section which includes articles on metals like silver and copper, and my finishing techniques. Also completed, the Commissions section that includes my Pricing Guidelines, Date of Delivery calculations, a Commission Request Form, and my Warranty.

My new logo design is also finished and will be unveiled at the Grand Opening!

Finally, I can turn my attention to my Etsy shop. Photography begins tomorrow!

Is the Web Site ‘complete’? Well, no… not really… a web site is never completed because it is constantly being updated. But I do believe I have the main sections now in place, and we can move along now with other priorities.

Stay tuned!

 

More Web Development Progress…

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Just another brief update… today I have added:

  • social functionality to the web site
  • an enhanced log in system
  • and the ability to post my blog links to Facebook, Twitter, and Yahoo with the click of a button and the help of a great little application by Janrain (if you are not familiar with this user management platform, I urge you to check it out)  

In the soup:

  • continuing updates in the Style Guide section which will assist customers in describing their custom jewelry design requests.
  • in particular, the Gemstone Reference section is an ongoing affair, requiring much research and compilation. This most likely will continue for several weeks. I only intend to update this section as time permits and is not high on the priority list.
  • coming in the next day or so, functionality and customer forms for jewelry requests located in Commissions.
  • also on the plate, Wired For You will launch a Facebook page…
Stay tuned!

Progress Report

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Just a quick update on the Grand Opening Launch!

Today my new Studio Lights arrived which I am very excited about! Finally I’ll be able to move my photography inside instead of waiting for the perfect lighting conditions outdoors. It also means I can now do my photography at all hours of the day, which my sister will use as her nudge stick for me to hurry this web site project along!

The new Studio Lights are perfect for anyone who needs to take photographs of small objects and keep the colors as true as possible. These lights come with 35 watt/5400k daylight fluorescent spiral bulbs which keeps the colors as close to natural as possible.

I’ve also added more pages to the web site, and only have a few more to go… but the biggest project now is photographing my Wired For You jewelry! Stay tuned…

 

Hello World!

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Welcome to Wired For You, my personal blog on musings for all things created as an ”Artisan Jewelry Artist”. I’m trying to crank out this blog using WordPress, which is foreign to me. I’m more used to producing web sites with Adobe’s suite of web designer tools and this is my effort at trying to reduce development time. It may not be working.

Under the hood of WordPress in that land beyond, in the Administration section, are all kinds of gadgets and editing tools that are supposed to make life as a blogger really easy. On closer inspection however, you still must know html, you still must have a good understanding of web design and layout and you absolutely must be able to read, albeit an eight grade level. This really is not intuitive, and I find myself looking for intuitive buttons like “click here for your CSS file”, which even though the entire layout is built around CSS, I can not seem to find.

So, we are going to see how this goes. I may ditch this format entirely. Then again, if I can get it to behave the way I want it to, I might just keep it.

And the ONLY reason why I wanted to shorten my development time on my blog, is because I am busy setting up my Etsy Store for online shopping and that alone requires a tremendous amount of work.

Who in the world said I needed a website, a blog and several stores to be able to sell my creations? Remember the days when your website alone was the engine that drove your business? How is it that Google now dominates my workday by demanding I comply with their algorithms on search? Why is SEO (Search Engine Optimization) this little squirmy guy running all over my pages with a microscope hunting down illegal words and phrases that kicks me across the football field and out the stadium? Huh?

Thanks for visiting my Daily Muse!