The upgrade was successful and the shop is now back online. What an effort. My husband is a genius. I love the new features. He did everything I asked for plus all the boring technical stuff needed behind the scenes. I can say without a doubt it’s harder to do an upgrade than it is to install a new shop from scratch.
We’ve done a lot of testing but you may find things that are broken. You know where to find me! kathy {at} pinkchalkstudio.com I would appreciate a quick note if there’s something significant. Or a typo. My pet peeve and I never catch my own. We’re working through the category/image links that aren’t working.
The logo is updated too. I’ve been all over the map the last couple of years with trying to hire various people to re-design my logo. Because, hey, of course the one I designed myself with free Adobe fonts couldn’t be good enough! But it is. And Seth Godin agrees with me. So there.
Before You Spend a Lot of Time on a Logo (this older post has a broken link, here’s a good one for Pixellogo)
Logos (classic Seth Godin)
Your Brand is Not Your Logo (focusing on what’s important)
Actually, it’s just a jaggy picture (a look at the 2012 Olympic logo)
Seth also wrote a post about not changing your logo just because you’re bored of seeing it yourself everyday. That was the post I was trying to locate and couldn’t. I kept that in mind as I felt the urge to update my logo this go around. I brightened some colors, updated the positioning of the tag line and replaced the script font for ‘fabrics’ with something more readable. Different but still the same.
It feels like a new beginning.
YEAH YOU!! I’m sketching one too… really need to do it!
I think your logo is perfect. Simple, clean, modern. Most are way too tricky IMHO. I have designed quite a few logos and love the process. Some here: http://andsewitgoes.blogspot.com/2005/09/graphic-design.html
thanks for that link Terry, more great inspiration!
Kathy, you crack me up!
CONGRATULATIONS to Greg!
Hip Hip Hooray!!!!
Ain’t it cool that sometimes we can actually work with our spouses and good things happen?
So glad about all of this!
xoxo
Ha, Greg commented last night how amazing it was we didn’t have one fight about the upgrade the whole weekend!
Everything looks great – thank goodness for computer-savvy husbands, eh? I put mine to work quite regularly!
Bravo! Love the new logo – and love the advice from Seth! And yay for working with hubbies!
I enjoyed shopping on your site before the change, and Congratulations on the upgrade! Your company gives great quick customer service and I enjoy the selection of fabrics and patterns that you carry. I am looking forward to shopping on the updated site!
I love the new logo! I think it captures just what you said you were looking for, yet it’s still identifies your shop with the previous look. I love the tag line too. Now I’m off to check out the shop. Congrats on getting through your upgrade! I bet it feels great now to have it behind you.
Love the new logo! Looking forward to doing some more shopping in your newly upgraded shop : )
Kathy,
Love the website!
Jen
The site looks fabulous! Sometimes a girl just needs a little makeover.
Yeah! I love the new look.
love the new logo kathy! I think that it doesn’t lose any of your identity and adds new information! Great! can’t wait to check out the site again.
Congrats! I looks wonderful! I have been shopping for the last half hour even though I just made an order like 2 weeks ago! It is super user friendly and I haven’t found any typos!
Great job with the shop! It’s different, but not in the way where you’re like, “ugh, why did they change it?!” I really like it.
The new logo…I love it as well. Fresh, modern, updated. I’m so glad it wasn’t a radical shift because I really like what you had put together visually and it gave a certain vibe to your shop. The new one maintains that vibe, but is just fresh and updated!
thank you for that perspective shannon, I have a difficult time leaving things well enough alone! i’ve been trying to be very well behaved this month
Love the new and improved site. Looks great. Congratulations and even better is not having any anger between you and hubby while doing this. That’s the biggest plus in my mind. Great job to you both.
Love the new look and the re-design on the shop…everything looks great!
Very user friendly…had fun browsing.