A few changes: I'm considering a number of changes for this site this summer. For example, I would like to get it to actually reflect the stock I have on hand and eliminate the need to make so many custom orders.
When I started selling jewelry online I did not mind custom orders, but they are quite time consuming, and I think my views on the subject have changed significantly. Custom orders cause me to have delays and way too much stress.
What you will likely see pretty soon is a significant drop in the number of items I have listed as "in stock". I may keep a few things such as rings available for custom orders, but over the summer in particular I don't think I'll have much time to devote to them.
Making this change shouldn't be too difficult. The hard part is getting it to update the stock when something sells, since PayPal's shopping cart is completely separate from my site.
There are a few options for this, but generally require me to purchase a SSL certificate from a third party, or some other plan from PayPal. That may be something I consider in the future, but not something I can afford to do at the moment.
Anyway I just wanted to post a little note about it. I'm going to start working on this pretty soon. I also want to update some of the other pages of the site (Custom Orders and About the Jeweler need updates), and possibly streamline the updating process of those pages to make them easier to change. I'm also considering making a custom orders gallery where you can see images of some of the custom designs I've done in the past, as opposed to just the two examples listed there now.
Update: In an attempt to be organized I've broken the left navigation into two sections. One section groups all of the different types of items together and the other lists the pages (news, FAQs ect). I think this will make it a little easier to find what you are looking for.
I also started to make a couple changes to the custom orders and about the jeweler pages to make them easier to update.
Last Updated: 2010-04-30 09:55:31
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RSS: I wanted to point out that I built a RSS feed for the News section, so you can follow updates if you so choose. The link is also available from the bottom of the news page. Currently this only displays the most recent 5 news items.
On a related note, apparently the problem I was having with my RSS feeds rendering in Chrome is an issue with Google Chrome's ability to properly display an RSS feed. I did some searching and it seems others were having similar issues.
If you're using Chrome, and you want to view the RSS feed try this. Basically all you do is drag the view feed link on that page to your bookmarks bar and you can render the feed in chrome by loading the RSS and then clicking that bookmark.
Last Updated: 2010-03-19 15:12:50
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Data Feeds: I just realized that the data feeds I had created for Google (That I had also linked as "RSS" feeds) were only displaying as RSS feeds in Firefox. I now have these working in most browsers. I verified they work in FireFox, IE, Safari and Opera. Although it doesn't give any errors in Google Chrome, it looks really ugly. So for now I'm going to have to say that my RSS feeds do not work in Chrome.
I may have to make separate feeds without the extra Google specific tags, in order to get them to show up correctly in Chrome. I think I can make them look nicer if I do that anyway, so look for new (and improved) RSS feeds to be posted soon.
On a side note if you use Google's RSS reader to subscribe they work fine on iGoogle. The extra tags are Google specific tags so I don't know why their's is the only browser not rendering the feed correctly.
Last Updated: 2010-01-31 16:52:53
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