I use Woocommerce to sell merchandise at work. We order a small run and just hope they go which has its problems but is easy enough. What do you need to know?
Trying to find out what platform works best, bang for the buck, pros, cons, etc. Pretty vague, sorry!
I’m currently looking at trying to do something similar. Squarespace has a good shopping platform, but it’s pricey. I have a basic shop on Big Cartel - just their basic option which is fine but it does lack a few features. Both these would mean printing and shipping myself.
My friend uses Red bubble (I think that’s the name) and they do all the printing and shipping for you. I didn’t look into it so not sure what it’s like
@ciaran sorry I can’t input much to this but be very careful of obsessing too much about the platform. That can always be changed. What’s more important is that you get your product online. So make a decision today and get something showing asap. You can tweak the design later when you launch, just get it up!
Yep, damn straight. Trying to weigh up paying for the convenience of drop shipping vs trips to the post office, ha.
@BvS - Red Bubble looks similar to Cafe Press, right? Might work for tees and things at a later stage. Good shout though.
I’ve just been tasked with creating a website with mild e-commerce bits using Wix. I’ll let you know how I get on. No idea what I’m doing either tbh but it seems easy enough so far…
I wouldn’t use Wix purely on their smug os fuck adverts.
Is that the ionos ones? Can’t think of the wix ones.
Either way it’s not something I particularly want to do.
Secretly I quite like Wix, it’s brilliant for knocking something that looks half OK out really quickly. Not done any ecommerce with it though.
Omg ionos are the worst. Or at least they were when they were 1and1.
setting up enhanced ecommerce tracking in analytics will be fun!
Apple have announced they are switching their Macs from Intel to their own ARM processors. Will be interesting to see how this plays out.
I’m not worried about the big apps, as I’m sure they will be ported over, even if it takes a bit longer. It is the random little indie apps that I use, that I will be worried about losing.
They used to use Motorola based processors before switching to Intel.
That was a big switch back then too.
If anybody is building a high-end PC for gaming or video production, best bet right now is to spunk the cash you don’t have on an AMD Threadripper CPU. Kicks the shit out of everything else.
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Yeah, I only learnt recently that the Xbox 360 and the PS3 used PowerPC processors.
I didn’t use a mac at the time of the Intel switch, but apparently Rosetta was really good at emulating the old apps. Fingers crossed for Rosetta mk2.
I imagine they don’t want to make the emulator too good though, otherwise none of the developers will feel the need to update.
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Can someone do me a favour.
I’m on a site that has a little little pop-up that comes up that says ‘a customer from X has started purchasing X’ and then disappears. I’m guessing the timer is based on local storage because it’s new every time it loads for me.
Can anyone work out how they generate that because it’s obviously horseshit but I’d like to pinch it for something I’m working on.
I’ll PM the link because I don’t want to give them a backlink.
Stashed in a cookie?
Possibly. I opened it in a regular page and I was getting people in the UK. I opened it in incognito mode and then it was about people in Kentucky.
I’ve had it with Windows. Stuff works fifty times in a row all fine then decides to find an error the next time. Spent 2 hours last night googling how to fix why my laptop now doesn’t recognise the ext hard drive it’s been using for months. And why the DJ controller software on the laptop now thinks the hard drive is not FAT32 or exFAT when it fucking well is.
Does Apple do all this shite? Is all the spiel about how it all just works actually true?
Pretty much yeah. I have to use some Windows shit nowadays and it’s absolute torture. iOS generally knows what you mean, Windows tries to start arguments.
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