Hopefully these
become easier to write as time goes by. There are so many things I
could talk about now, but I feel it’s best not to jam them all into
a first entry, so they will have to wait and we’ll ease into them
gently.
I suppose the blog
goes hand-in-hand with the new look website. I realised a long time
ago that something needed doing about my website but it has taken
until now to get round to writing and coding it. It now has well over
a hundred pages and is likely to grow further over the coming months.
If you have not yet
had time to have a look, do feel free to drop by at
www.meadowgateleather.com
The feature I like
best is the ability to click through pages which help you decide
which type of journal cover you want (one with a wallet / pockets /
folio etc). Once you’re over the first hurdle, it presents you with
the ranges available and one more click takes you to the model you
like the look of. When you have decided, another click takes you
straight to that item on Etsy!
There are many
photos of each model, explanations of the features, what it is made
from and lots of reviews of the very model you are viewing which can
help decision making.
Once you know which
model you need, you can check out all the options – pocket shapes,
pen loops, pyrography, overhang and so on.
The one thing that
everybody has a problem deciding, is of course, the colours!
It is so difficult
to put across the colours in such a small space on Etsy. I know it
must be like taking a stab in the dark to choose a colour which is
probably an inch square on screen and expect it to scale up nicely to
the large A5 cover you are about to order!
To help you there, I
now have a nice, new, shiny, colours page. It is laid out just like
the Etsy colour chart, but if you click on a colour, it takes you to
lots of large photos of covers in that colour. There are hundreds of
photos on the site now, so colour choice should be much easier –
even if I have added a few new ones.
OK, I don’t want
to make my first blog here too long and tedious, so I will keep it
short and finish by tempting you with the news that I have a number
of ideas for new covers that will involve you in their making! But
you will have to wait a little longer for all the details.
Until the next time,
Best wishes
Mike
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