A lot has been going on behind the scenes here recently IT-wise. Due to the growing sales at my eBay Rope Shop and Amazon store, my days have been filled increasingly with tying parcels, at the expense of tying people. Whilst it provides the ‘nawa-soup’ as Steve-san calls it, it is not what my vision entailed. So I have bitten the bullet and installed multi-channel order processing software from Linnworks. It is massively powerful with a bewildering array of customisable features and I can see it has huge potential. It does have its foibles and peculiarities so it will take me a while to get to grips fully so please bear with me if you get some odd auto-generated emails. I think I might have sorted them but there are so many variables, there might be some surprises in store yet. Anyway, the task of printing out postage labels and order lists is a dream now compared with PayPal’s user-hostile interface, so it will mean orders can be turned around faster.
Given that I have risen to the level of my own incompetence as a WordPress web master, I have decided that it’s time to recruit a grown-up to help me. Keeping on top of the complexities of numerous plugins and server side mysteries seems to be a case of one step forward and two backwards. It’s much safer that I don’t poke my sticky fingers into these things and restrict myself to the donkey work of uploading galleries and writing posts. Anyway, I’m waiting to see whether Dan the Web Man feels up to the challenge after his review and report on the site. Hopefully, all this will give me the chance to tie more and to keep the content lively.
I’d like to say a word of thanks to the support guys at Kaptinlin who produce the Striking theme that drives this site. They have helped sort out several issues that had nothing to do with their theme and over a weekend! If you need a really nice, solid and highly customisable theme for peanuts with unbeatable support, these guys are the mutt’s nuts. If all plugins and support was like this my life would be so much easier.