I just added a new page that is called ‘Shipping Status’ and this is a place which I will update to let people know when I’ve been to the post office, if there has been a holiday here in Finland, or any delays that possibly could happen. I hope this helps answer questions before they come up.

Anyhow, we just keep trucking along. Thank you SO much everyone for all your support. It means the world.

xo

Ruth

I just want to thank everyone who participated in the last update. As many people know there were highs and lows, duplicate sales, and all sorts of mayhem. Even though it was a fiasco to some degree we learned alot.

My service provider was online watching the entire update so we were able to trouble shoot where the bottle-neck was happening with the traffic. Ultimately my server/service is able to handle the traffic as is wordpress which powers my site, the real problem is my shopping cart software. It cannot handle the traffic.

What this means is that I’ll be testing some new software for the shopping cart and we will see visual changes happening to the site/shop area. I am intent on providing the best service possible and have a meeting later this week to discuss further what we can do to make that better with my provider.

Now that we have diagnosed the problem I hope its just a few simple steps to having it resolved and we can go back to programming as usual!

Thank you for your continued support through all of this.

-Ruth

products can be found in the ‘up and coming’ set in Flickr.

I have been doing some work with my service provider and they are actually going to be online supervising this update in order to better maximize and improve the service/capacity of my website. Currently the question is not about server handling the traffic, but processing the pages to you in a timely manner. I am being put to a service that is optimized for the software I am using specifically so we hope that problems have been solved. Anyhow I’ve set up the date and time with my service and admin and I really hope this is a step in the right direction for the website/webshop. I am determined to have a site that can support the traffic and work smoothly for everyone. I am …determined!

See you online!!
Thank you for your patience!! I’ve been planning some great things for the upcoming 4th Anniversary too! so stay tuned!

Ruth

The sewing machine has been clicking along and I’ve been working on some new things for the holiday season. I hope everyone is enjoying the transition to winter (depending on your geological location) and into the holiday season.

I’m a little delayed with shipping this week as I had some unexpected work that I was called in to do, so I apologize for any delays.

In the next week or so I should be getting leftovers from the DollShow in Tokyo back in the mail and will be able to offer them as well! Very exciting.

Hope you all are enjoying the weekend, and thanks so much for visiting our little place on the web. I’m going to go back to my day of knitting helmets on the sofa and staying warm with tea and cocoa!

The factory never rests ;P

So, details are as follows:
Sunday October 25th, 2009 11:30PM (2330h)

http://eurotrashdoll.com

keep your eye on flickr for contents, so far I can say that there will be pettis and helmets. The petti’s are not OOAK, there are going to be listed at least 2 in each color.

Also..last time the server really bogged down. I have contacted my admin and provider and informed them of the problem. I cannot guarantee what the result is going to be, but hopefully with a few changes, and taking a few tips from friends as well things will not go so poorly. On a good note though nothing crashed it just took 1-2 minutes to load. You guys blow my mind! So far you have far exceeded any the traffic I ever experienced on Artfire OR Etsy…

Again I remind people that if you choose not to buy an item, please remove it from your cart. it saves a lot of hassle in the long run.

If indeed we do bog down, have heart. My provider has promised to migrate me to a different server should the tweaks and changes not help this time.

Its all a learning process and I thank you all for learning with me.

-Ruth

but you asked about avatars/registration, now you should be able to create avatars on open id sites such as

http://en.gravatar.com/

and you should be recognized by the site with your avatar when you post comments etc.

your first comment will go through screening so if you do not see it right away, its waiting to be screened, but once it is approved your subsequent comments will be allowed automatically without screening.

Thanks for all the comments! Its nice to have a place where we can interact.

Thats it for now!!

-R

World Clock Helsinki