Contributing Member JLSleather Posted January 5, 2019 Author Contributing Member Report Posted January 5, 2019 Heavy lifting? What would that be? What's yer site? Cutesy does a nice job of painless USPS shipping labels (which is the big issue) and their handling of pdf downloadables is effortless for the most part. But I've always had issues with them. Most of 'em I just ignored, but for a while every year I'm shutting that down because I'm bringing THEM way more 'business' than they're bringing ME. And then of course there are numerous social diseases people will assume I'm supporting by endorsing cutesy. Did I say diseases? I should say social issues, maybe. Several other similar businesses have contacted me at various times, but they all leave something that makes it not worth going. I really like the idea of just having somebody ELSE do that, but just can't make sense of it. I'm quite big on the idea of EITHER doing the work, OR paying someone to do it for me... BUT NOT BOTH. I don't intend to pay somebody for web "stuff", then I still have to provide images, the 'theme' of the site, pricing, general flow of the site. So I would be paying somebody.. for what? To upload my stuff?@! But I'm like that anyway.. why I don't have ANY employees. Somehow, they self-decide that they can use my stuff to do their own designing and social poop, and expect that while they do all that I should be paying them ANYWAY for not doing what I agreed to pay them to do Quote "Observation is 9/10 of the law." IF what you do is something that ANYBODY can do, then don't be surprised when ANYBODY does.
Contributing Member JLSleather Posted January 5, 2019 Author Contributing Member Report Posted January 5, 2019 8 hours ago, YinTx said: I don't need that stress or the bill Well, the stress isn't SO bad.. once it's set up the way it should go, not much to maintain it. Just would have been nice 'heads up' on that latest wordpress update ... And the "bill" isn't much, for most sites a leather guy would need. Your own site can be done for $150-200 plus card processing fees, which are likely 3% +/- a bit. I'm a PayPal user, ends up being more like 7%, translates to 3.5% for their processing, which I consider acceptable trade-off for the shipping label service. Nice idea would be... 2, 3, 4 ... leather people all sell from the same site. Not really a consignment thing, just a bit of collaboration. And the next thing you know, there's another Cutesy, or ... similar. Again, with cutesy - I never did care for the idea of appearing with a bunch of cheap junk (ACRES of cheap junk). But the straw is that every so often I shut that off, then when I turn it back on it's a matter of time before I'm bringing THEM business. For a fee. So - translate that ... I'm PAYING them for the 'privilege' of ADVERTISING THEM. So, just let that trail off.... (the fees are just bumped up to just north of 8%, and their recreation has become changing the rules just to change the rules). BUT, if a guy just wants a place to list some 'stuff', cutesy is relatively cheap and easy to use, so ... each his own. Quote "Observation is 9/10 of the law." IF what you do is something that ANYBODY can do, then don't be surprised when ANYBODY does.
Contributing Member JLSleather Posted January 5, 2019 Author Contributing Member Report Posted January 5, 2019 2 hours ago, Constabulary said: Not sure if they have an "english branch" but it has l Not sure due to translation stuff, but I guess it's sorta the same thing.. open source, blahblah... downside being that somebody is always fixing what isn't broken. Nice to have somebody SAY .. when you install this upgrade, yer other stuff may not work any more! But, they don't ... I miss the days of buy the disk , use the software... but I think those days might be gone for good.... Trend is to convince you they're doig you a "favor" with auto (and constant) updates ... Quote "Observation is 9/10 of the law." IF what you do is something that ANYBODY can do, then don't be surprised when ANYBODY does.
kgg Posted January 5, 2019 Report Posted January 5, 2019 I only have two suggestions about your site. Need an "About Us" tell a little story highlighting the main stuff like location (close to the beautiful/historic ...), sole owner/operator, experience those types of things and more "Contact" info where you are located so that people can easily see you are in the US, phone number, hours of operation. All the above due have their pros and cons. kgg Quote Juki DNU - 1541S, Juki DU - 1181N, Singer 29K - 71(1949), Chinese Patcher (Tinkers Delight), Warlock TSC-441, Techsew 2750 Pro, Consew DCS-S4 Skiver
Contributing Member JLSleather Posted January 5, 2019 Author Contributing Member Report Posted January 5, 2019 Thanks -- I'll consider that Quote "Observation is 9/10 of the law." IF what you do is something that ANYBODY can do, then don't be surprised when ANYBODY does.
alpha2 Posted January 5, 2019 Report Posted January 5, 2019 Wordpress latest "upgrade" has a LOT of people royally miffed, from what I read on the interwebs. Jeff Quote So much leather...so little time.
Contributing Member JLSleather Posted January 5, 2019 Author Contributing Member Report Posted January 5, 2019 1 hour ago, alpha2 said: Wordpress latest "upgrade" has a LOT of people royally miffed, Yup. "back in the day" we used to have software installed and running LOCALLY, so everything was tested and working BEFORE it went live. These days I have neither the equipment for that or the space to set that up. Quote "Observation is 9/10 of the law." IF what you do is something that ANYBODY can do, then don't be surprised when ANYBODY does.
Members CourtneyYEG Posted January 6, 2019 Members Report Posted January 6, 2019 The newest Wordpress update, Gutenberg, is quite handily breaking a lot of websites who use any themes with page builders. However, they installed a workaround that allows you to continue using the classic editor. Eventually, they'll stop supporting it, but for now... it's an okay workaround. Quote
Members VYO Posted January 8, 2019 Members Report Posted January 8, 2019 On 1/5/2019 at 5:38 AM, JLSleather said: when you install this upgrade, yer other stuff may not work any more! I'm sitting with a plugin update for Contact Form and it says "Compatibility with WordPress 5.0.2: Unknown". Now why would I update that with that kind of message? d'oh. I agree on the old days. We built sites locally, fully tested them, and then uploaded them when we knew they worked. As for the new 'editor', blah. Quote CB 3200, Consew P1206RB, Craftool Pro burnisher, 3000mw desktop laser engraver, PointZero Dual Action Airbrush, Psuedo regad, HF 20 ton clicker, Silhouette Cameo and Cricut
Contributing Member JLSleather Posted January 8, 2019 Author Contributing Member Report Posted January 8, 2019 Not "actually" web site stuff, but I started putting some on instagram (and it links to my site). I generally view that social "stuff" (deliberately using a nicer word) as the noise made by those whose work can't carry itself ... the hype that supports the "quality". You know - like Dr Phil.. prolly a nice guy, but without his advertisers he's got nuthin Now, normally when I see some guy with questionable morals and lacking any real skills beyond knowing how to post pics somewhere, I just go on about my business and disregard it. Kaint fix stupid, right? But that one guy really did git under my skin a bit. Not just using my designs, but doing it badly and claiming the designs were his. And since 30,000 -ish holsters are displayed with my designs, seems like at least ONE of the posts should be me If yer using wordpress, there's a plug-in fer that seems to work okay. Called simply "instagram feed" if ya care to check it out. Or, go straight to the source, see how my designs were intended to look https://www.instagram.com/jlsleather/ Quote "Observation is 9/10 of the law." IF what you do is something that ANYBODY can do, then don't be surprised when ANYBODY does.
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