View Full Version : Website Pretty Much Done! Introducing Taliswoman@SiouxStudio Jewelry
Oh my god, THAT was a lot of work (for me). I used Weebly and had a friend help me get started, but since I am so NOT comfortable with computer functions it took me a long time (almost two weeks) to get it the way I wanted (for now). It is still very much a work in progress, and still haven't got the shopping cart set up. I think I will tackle that next week...
Please check it out and let me know what you think! Feedback, constructive criticism, things I may have overlooked, confusion in its organization...
www.taliswomanshop.com
PS: The landscape photography are all my pictures from various road trips!
Nice, SiouzQ!
It's beautiful and has a strong look! love the photos, love the jewelry, and the presentation of the jewelry is really nice!
Great job!
gorgeous, wow we know such a talented lady. i am drooling over the captured seashell necklace
iris lilies
8-7-15, 9:32pm
ohhhhh, nice! the site complements your jewelry, that's for sure. love it.
Very professional; the photos are breathtaking! You're obviously putting your time off to good use.
Oh my gosh..love the photos....very eye catching.
Your website does justice to your fantastic work - I love your stuff!
Very nice work on both the website and your jewelry!
I think you've done a great job. I like that you've included so much of what inspires you. Weebly is what I used for our glassblowing website and I loved how easy it was to use.
I would add a page "where to find" and list the stores you sell to by state and maybe on your contact page state that you are open to wholesale accounts. That was really important in keeping a good relationship going with my wholesale accounts. Even though we did 36-42 art shows a year, wholesale was still 75% of our business. At one time in the late '90's and early '00, brick and mortar stores would not buy from any artists that had websites, plus we had to honor zip codes and territories (granted only if they ordered certain set minimums on a yearly basis).....things sure changed over the years. I had a locked page for wholesale prices/catalog. They could email me for the password or the password was on all my emails, catalogs, invoices. It was a great way for them to see new items or colors without waiting for the twice a year wholesale markets.
Artists need more than just training/skill in their art to keep out in front and contemporary. Marketing can take up 50-75% of your time.
I can see where the landscape inspires your jewelry. Very nice!!!
Thanks, everyone for taking the time out to look! I appreciate all the feedback, tips, etc. That is a great idea, Float On, about the "where to find" page.
I am still very much on the fence about wholesale because after doing several time-analysis studies of production the past few weeks, I have concluded that the way I am set up now is simply not going to work for mass production, even small time mass production, especially when I go back to work full time. I can't afford to pay someone to do the grunt-work of cutting and filing metal shapes but I also can't afford to get into dies and hydrolic presses at this point. I am not totally discounting the idea but I will put it on the back-burner for now and work on continuing to get organized, work on marketing, get the on-line store going.
I have learned a lot about myself and my work habit this summer. I have very poor time-management skills when left to my own devices. However, I am sure I would tidy that up if I knew I depended on this business solely for my livlihood. It's kind of cool that I get a taste of what it would be like to be self-employed but having the safety net of my short-term disability and having my health insurance.
I think I am going to have a really, REALLY hard time going back to work and doing the same thing I've been doing at the deli counter. Working there seems like it is an abstract idea; I know intellectually I am employed there but feels so far away. I haven't worked since June 5th, the day I left for vacation! I am dreading going back in some ways, but I also know I need some structure in my life. I have two weeks until my next x-ray and find out what is going to happen. I think starting Monday I am going to have to start acting as if I am going to work and start using the alarm clock and not letting myself hit the snooze button more than once. And I'll get up earlier and earlier each day by 15 minute increments...I just don't know if I can handle or want to handle going back to the craziness of that type of job now that I have had the chance to see how it feels NOT to feel stressed and crazed...
freshstart
8-8-15, 10:29am
very, very nice. The photography is stunning
ToomuchStuff
8-8-15, 10:46am
Slight threadjack:
Anyone know if you can use Weebly to import and modify a website? (never learned HTML and trying to do it by hand, has not kept the same margins and screwed things up)
Thanks
Excellent work on the site, the photography, and the jewelry design work!!
I love the website, and I'm a bit of a website critic. Your pictures are always so great, too. All the stuff that challenges me, you are amazing at.
Slight threadjack:
Anyone know if you can use Weebly to import and modify a website? (never learned HTML and trying to do it by hand, has not kept the same margins and screwed things up)
Thanks
I've done quite a bit of website work so may be able to help, but I'm not sure you are trying to do. Usually you start with Weebly from scratch. Do you want to PM me your website info and tell me a bit more about what you are trying to accomplish?
ToomuchStuff
8-8-15, 12:53pm
Say I designed it with Weebly, so I couldn't then import it back into Weebly to make changes? What if she added more products, etc?
In my case all I am trying to do is place extra text, so it doesn't affect the page width. (think of a 8x11 sheet of paper, now think of the text going 11" rather then 8") All I really need to learn are the format commands (just haven't had the time, but on my to do list as I want to learn this skill).
Regarding my website and using Weebly - I imagine that someone who has any sort of experience on the computer probably would find it pretty easy to navigate and set up a website pretty quickly; I, on the other hand, seem to have been born without the adaptive technology gene needed in every electronic device I come across. I simply do not find things intuitive at all. It takes me a LONG TIME of fiddling, cursing, re-fiddling, tears of anger, and surprise when something actually works to get anything done. A third grader would run rings around me in this techno-arena. I simply never learned how to do any of this in school or on a job and am somewhat of a Luddite when it comes to modern life. And it holds me back on a lot of things because my learning curve is so, so steep. Baby steps...
Say I designed it with Weebly, so I couldn't then import it back into Weebly to make changes? What if she added more products, etc?
In my case all I am trying to do is place extra text, so it doesn't affect the page width. (think of a 8x11 sheet of paper, now think of the text going 11" rather then 8") All I really need to learn are the format commands (just haven't had the time, but on my to do list as I want to learn this skill).
I'm not really understanding the "import" part. I've worked directly with Wix, and understood that Weebly was the same idea, but haven't had a chance to do a Weebly site yet (normally I use WordPress). And I thought that any text is just within a text box, and you just copy and paste it into the text box. No coding required. But maybe this isn't the case.
When I used Wix I just logged in to the admin area, brought up edit the webpage, then did all changes directly on the web page itself. Sometimes elements had to be moved or re-sized, which from my research is easier in Wix, than Weebly, but if I'm understanding correctly in Weebly you'd just be pasting in more text where some text already is. The length should change, but not the width. But without actually logging into a site as an admin I'm not 100% sure.
ToomuchStuff
8-8-15, 1:43pm
In my case I have the website downloaded to my machine and I am unsure of what program was used on Apple, around a decade ago, to create the site.
Import, is just opening a website, that was already made, in that program (could have been made by that program or another).
I was using (maybe Libreoffice, don't remember now), to try to add some text, where there was none. (no formating there) There were no text boxes. Most of the website creation stuff I was aware of, is LONG gone.
A lot of it revolves around peoples INABILITY to use CELL phones. They blame Google, etc. for their lack of intelligence at not noticing the AREA code is NOT in their area (four small businesses, at least, all named the same, in different states, and it costs each money when people do that).
In my case I have the website downloaded to my machine and I am unsure of what program was used on Apple, around a decade ago, to create the site.
Import, is just opening a website, that was already made, in that program (could have been made by that program or another).
I was using (maybe Libreoffice, don't remember now), to try to add some text, where there was none. (no formating there) There were no text boxes. Most of the website creation stuff I was aware of, is LONG gone.
A lot of it revolves around peoples INABILITY to use CELL phones. They blame Google, etc. for their lack of intelligence at not noticing the AREA code is NOT in their area (four small businesses, at least, all named the same, in different states, and it costs each money when people do that).
Okay, I'm following you now. So you have all the files, but not a live site anywhere? I'm not sure how much luck you'll have with something that old. You could try setting up a self-hosted site and uploading the files, kind of like in these instructions: https://ca.godaddy.com/help/upload-files-to-your-website-ftp-96
I have used FileZilla with varying degrees of success. But it might be easier to start from scratch, depending on whether you have the original text and such, and how big the site is. This is a little beyond my experience level and would take a lot of research and fiddling around.
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