Posts tagged ‘handmade jewellery shop’

Shiny new website!

25 January 2012

I’ve been working ridiculously long and hard hours over the last couple of weeks to completely redesign and rebuild all of my site, including this very blog, the handmade jewellery shop and the main website.

And finally I’m very pleased to announce that it is all launched and up and running! Hooray!

Screenshot of the new handmade jewellery shop.

The rebuilt shop does feature some updated functionality, but at this stage I haven’t included a currency exchange method. I hope to look into this further shortly.

The new design has been tested across all modern browsers and back to Internet Explorer 7, but if you see anything odd or find anything that isn’t working properly, please get in touch and let me know the details.

However, if you’re still using Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) … well, you’re out of luck! The site no longer supports this very old and out of date browser and I strongly recommend you upgrade to a modern browser, even if to the latest version of Internet Explorer. You can learn more here.

I hope you enjoy the new design – I’m feeling very chuffed with it, myself!

Posted in Handmade jewellery, Web design & more | 4 comments »

Tags: , ,

Farewell to the US dollar …

8 January 2012

Screenshot of my handmade jewellery shop.Not that the dollar is going anywhere, but I have now closed my US dollar shop. My Australian dollar shop is now my primary online outlet.

You can find my handmade jewellery shop at: www.shop.simonewalsh.com.

If you have bookmarks to the old web address for my Australian dollar shop they will automatically redirect to the new address.

This is a change I’ve been thinking about for some time – and was in part decided upon after I undertook a currency survey a few months ago.

Running two largely identical shops meant a doubling up of work and fees, which wasn’t ideal. Also the nature of my business has changed and I’m making fewer sales to US customers and a lot more to customers in Australia and Europe. This meant that the US dollar shop was less relevant to the majority of my customers.

So now I’ve streamlined to just one shop, which should make my life easier and buying less confusing for local customers in particular!

I’m planning to make some changes to the shop functionality and layout in the near future. As part of that I plan to add some functionality which will give an idea of prices in various other currencies. Checkout will still be in Australian dollars at this stage, but if you aren’t in Australia you will at least have a good idea of what your order will cost you in your local currency.

Posted in Handmade jewellery | 2 comments »

Tags: , ,

A new shop for Australian & NZ customers with AU$ prices

28 October 2008

Cameo earrings by Simone Walsh. To ease the pain of the very sudden and severe decline in value of the AU$, I’ve today set up a brand new handmade jewellery shop just for Australian and NZ customers.

This shop is identical to my main shop, but it features a fixed pricelist in Australian dollars (meaning it won’t constantly fluctuate as the exchange rate changes). Prices are based on my original US$ pricelist, but have been calculated at a currently much more favourable exchange rate.

Another benefit is that Australian customers can pay in their own currency and not risk attracting fees from their bank for currency conversion – yay!

An opening discount!

To celebrate the opening of my Australian shop, I’m offering a 10% discount on all purchases through this shop. Just enter the code aud when you checkout to receive your discount. This code will expire on Tuesday 4 November 2008, so get in quick!

More about the new shop

Not only will this stop Australian and NZ customers from being penalised by the current situation, but it also helps me to better organise my business locally. And of course customers elsewhere are still paying the exact same US$ prices as before. So it’s all good!

Note that only orders being delivered to either Australia or New Zealand can be purchased through this shop.

Customers from other countries will need to make their purchases through my original handmade jewelry shop, where deliveries can be made to anywhere in the world.

Learn more about the two shops and the reasoning behind them.

Note that links I provide to products or to my shop from this blog will most often go to my main shop rather than the Australian shop. However, Australian and New Zealand customers can easily go to the Australian shop by clicking on the Australian flag icon near the top of the content on each page in my main shop.

So, to make it clear, the two shops are:

Posted in Handmade jewellery | 3 comments »

Tags: , , , , , , , , ,

Blog home

button-go-shopping

Archives

* My shops

Handmade blogs

Indie design blogs

Recommended

Bits and pieces

Powered by Wordpress