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Whew!!!! That certainly worked into a happy ending. Congrats 'sooner. Gil, sorry for your mistreatment and stress.
Hugs, Alice
If you drop a stabilized one will they split? I read a little about wood stabilization and it said not to hammer on it. You can hammer on a piece of wood. I don't mean beat it to splinters but hope you get my point. Would be a bummer like dropping your favorite steamroller 
Do not try it out in a drop test!!!!!
Remember what you learned in school. Everything which is hard, can break more easily.
(And what did you learned about Lithium batteries??? Be very very carefully after one fall down on the ground.)
Andreas
Remember what you learned in school. Everything which is hard, can break more easily.
(And what did you learned about Lithium batteries??? Be very very carefully after one fall down on the ground.)
Andreas
The last shopping night revealed, that the webshop is not the very best on earth.
The load was already to much for the server. Very slowly, very long response times.
This "basket-system" made some customers (first time customers) very angry and they will probably never come back.
One story told today in the german forum:
A guy finally succeeded to get two stabilized woodvils, goes to check out, one stabilized is removed from his basket, so he goes back, can get only a wood mod, clicks on check out, the second stabilized is removed from his basket.
I can understand, that this basket system is difficult to handle, but I do cashier software for a supermarket and in my opinion a (web) shopping cart should be save, after I confirmed one time a cart.
Andreas
The load was already to much for the server. Very slowly, very long response times.
This "basket-system" made some customers (first time customers) very angry and they will probably never come back.
One story told today in the german forum:
A guy finally succeeded to get two stabilized woodvils, goes to check out, one stabilized is removed from his basket, so he goes back, can get only a wood mod, clicks on check out, the second stabilized is removed from his basket.
I can understand, that this basket system is difficult to handle, but I do cashier software for a supermarket and in my opinion a (web) shopping cart should be save, after I confirmed one time a cart.
Andreas
I wouldn't try it on purpose, just talking here for some insight from this illustrious group of heavy hitters.
As a web developer who has built his fair share of e-commerce systems, I can tell you that an item stays in active inventory until the cart is cashed out for a reason - people load up carts all the time and never cash it out. If your inventory reduced every time someone carted an item, you'd never sell anything because it'd all be tied up in shopping cart limbo.
When you're dealing with a large sale of one-of-a-kind items online, the fastest transaction wins every time.
A 3' drop from the top of my computer shelf to the cornor of a wood based trophy...chipped the wood off the wooden trophy base and didn't scratch the REO....fact!
But isn't it possible to put a reserve time on your cart so people at least have a chance to choose more than one item without worrying that their first item will disappear before they can choose another item? In this day and age with technology what it is, it seems like a simple solution.
I think it depends on the wood. A very hard wood like purpleheart can withstand a lot more than say some softer woods.
I was talking about the stabilized wood. Stabilized wood has hard and soft in it and the pores are injected with a resin to stabilize it. The hardness it creates may make it more brittle leaving it more fragile.
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Sure, it can be written to have a save option, say only for registered users, but that needs to be part of the original spec and it often isn't. Smaller businesses generally can't afford to have their inventory tied up like that so it's rarely a requirement for a small e-commerce setup. Retrofitting existing cart software is possible, but can prove difficult depending on how it was originally written. That can translate to expensive if the merchant farms the programming work out.
Ultimately, it's a nice feature to have maybe in a future version of the site, but understandable why it's not an option now.
Oops!
Edit: After reading Gils post maybe I should take back that Oops.
No not at all. I heard the same thing but seen and experienced the opposite. Delilah had a REO (before Rob start selling all stabilized mods) door crack so maybe I was lucky or the guy supplying me Rob and most of the others takes extra care when it comes to my blocks so maybe I get special treatment.
SEO (search engine optimization) isn't just smoke and mirrors, it really does make a difference. To stay ranked highly in the search engines takes persistence, staying on top of SEO trends because they change quicker than tax laws. A good all-around rule is to have you site written with SEO in mind, making it as easy to read by the search engines' spiders (programs used to index websites by following all the links contained within it). Another good one is to have lots of other websites linking to yours. This isn't to say you should hop into link exchanges and stuff like that, the engines are built to weigh the value of inbound links and any attempts to 'game' the search engines will only net short superficial results and you can find your sites excluded from the engines altogether. If you can get bloggers and such to link to you from their content (not as an ad), you can build up considerable juice and the search engines will rank you higher in the keyword results... which is the ultimate goal of SEO - to get your site ranked higher in search results.
Heh, you'd think from this pitch that I'm the SEO biz - but I'm just a php guy with a lot of focus on the front-end of increasingly larger web publishers and merchants.
Heh, you'd think from this pitch that I'm the SEO biz - but I'm just a php guy with a lot of focus on the front-end of increasingly larger web publishers and merchants.
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I was hoping you had a simple solution.
I got tired of trying to figure out what google is looking for. I did the link exchange bit and that didn't help, probably because they weren't sending much traffic my way or getting much traffic themselves. I finally just gave up. Sorry, this is a little bit off topic.- Status
