Month: August 2019

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More Progress…

I’ve started adding some of our rocker patch templates to the site and found a nice product visualizer plugin. Now you can change the text, thread color, and background color before ordering. I will be adding fonts that are supported in Wilcom. The tool is mainly a guide so that you can see different color combos and cut down on the back-and-forth explaining how you’d like each patch in the set to look. We plan to send a proof from Wilcom before stitching the design, so you will see the actual letter height, spacing, and font being used. Additionally the thread colors in the software are a little closer to realistic. Overall I’m pretty happy with how it works, even on a smart phone browser!

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Finally!

After nearly 2 years of trying to get Magento configured to something useful, we finally bit the bullet and switched to WordPress/WooCommerce. I must say the configuration so far has been much simpler and it is quite snappy even with a basic web hosting package. For example, just getting an “About Us” page on Magento took workarounds and we still never got it to show up the way we wanted. Last year our web host simply stopped offering shared plans for Magento stores since the resource requirements for the 2.3 release had pushed into requiring a full VPS…for 10x the cost. We tried installing 2.3 anyway, but site loads were brutally slow even with minimal content, so we lost interest and reverted back to local word-of-mouth referrals. Until now. It is amazing how much more satisfying it is spending time developing a website when the process is intuitive and fast without fighting tools. Kudos to the WooCommerce team. I like what I see so far.