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

Regarding shopping in the shop…once you add an item into your cart its yours, have no fear.No panic if you cannot find your cart immediately!
PLEASE, if you check out or navigate away from the page, or choose not to buy an item, remove it from your cart. you will find the cart in the upper right hand sidebar of the page. If you don’t remove it from your cart, and about 15 minutes goes by with no activity/check out, I will have to delete the item and relist it in order to make it available again.
The shopping cart software will direct you to fill out your information (hopefully it remembers those of you who are returning, it remembered my friend when we were doing tests and remembered me so I’m hoping that it does that. ) and automatically take you to paypal. So far this seems to be a seamless procedure.
I do remain online and can be reached via gmail during the updates.

there is still a problem of the text on the pop-up being too pale to read, and my friend is working on that. but, as i said, this will not affect whether or not you get an item into your cart.
So far the site seems to handle traffic spikes quite well.

again I appreciate any feedback, and keep in mind its still ‘under construction’ and things will be changing as I learn.

Thanks again,

Ruth