Calming Down
The frenetic chaos of last week has calmed down. Now that I have reconciled myself to the realities of how this eCommerce approach will work, the angst over app incompatibilities is significantly decreased. I’ve reconciled…
The Event Challenge
In my previous posts I opined about the blog/eCommerce interface and said that was the primary consideration. In those posts I neglected one aspect: Events. I use this website to publish our upcoming events The…
Theme Experience
OK, so I’m experiencing a theme conundrum. The website look I want is something minimalist that works well with my eCommerce app. By minimalist, I mean a clean look not cluttered by a background image.…
Plugee No Workee
Well. After installing the Store Open/Closed app, and a test, when push came to shove, it did not work. Back to the drawing board. There are a number of “store hours” apps, however the sporadic…
A Bit of Good Outcome
One of the tasks I was trying to accomplish yesterday was to modify the “Coming Soon” page to add a line about the store being closed, but to try again later. Or, something close to…
One Frustrating Day
I did something (brain to keyboard interface) in the Events plugin that reduced the title block to teenie-tiny letters, rather than the large headline font it’s supposed to be. Expended several hours trying to reverse…
Store Bumps
The base eCommerce software I’m using presumes a 24-hour on-line presence is acceptable. For a cafe business model (which essentially what Stu-Boy’s Lemonade Emporium is) does not work well. Store hours are important. What that…
Working On Simpler is Better
Well, if you’ve been paying attention (as if anyone out there really was), you’ve noticed the site got considerably simpler visually. Way too much clutter in the other one. Following through with my comments from…
Same Path, Different Direction
After five days of struggling with the online/POS challenge, and a bit of reflection and analysis on how the business works now, I’ve decided to stay with what I have now for POS (’cause it…
Bummer, Still No Joy
Attempt number 2 to stand up the alternate POS ended in disappointment; this POS does not present the WooCommerce Product Add-Ons in either the product selection or after adding a product to the cart. Bad…