At this time of the night/morning, I’m wondering what on earth I was thinking, building a new website…
Yes, it does have a whole lot of features that my current site doesn’t have, but man – it is REALLY hard work! I estimate I must’ve spent a good 30+ hours on it already, and I’m only about 1/4 of the way through adding my products (time for a clear-out of the old products, I’ve decided!). I’m cuttin’ ‘em up and recycling!
The new site is going to be great though, grumbles aside. New host is brilliant (great tutorials for setting up) and there are so many new features, I didn’t fully know what they all were until about 10 or so hours into it…!
I’m going to be able to offer gift certificates (automated ordering process – you won’t need to email me with your details, just choose an amount and pop one in your cart), options for earrings and others (ie: studs, clipons, open hooks, self-closing hooks, upgrade to sterling silver hooks etc), I’ll have a dedicated “Press” page, you can start up your own “wish list” for when payday comes around (or to put ideas in there for birthday pressies for friends and family – so handy!) and tonnes of other exciting new features. I’m very excited!
I am about halfway through adding the 78 pairs of earrings I have on offer, but I can stand it no longer – for the first time all week, I’m off to bed before 1am (it was 4am last night/this morning – although, technically, as the clocks went back for daylight saving, it was only 3am LOL).
I’m updating the front page of my site with progress reports as I complete each category of the site, so keep an eye out. My regular site is still up and running and fully functional throughout all of this – you will just need to change your bookmarks for a week or so, to www.pallinadesigns.vstore.ca instead 
Right, off to bed…hope you all had a good weekend!
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