Creative art and design

Well, I still say Zazzle is more shopkeeper friendly than Cafepress. There is no such thing as a premium store, they are all premium stores. However, with the new header addition on Zazzle, they are plugging Artsprojekt (found out from reading the forums that one actually has to be invited there and it is a Zazzle thing. Artsprojekt does have a submit art link at the bottom, but apparently that one does nothing unless you are already invited to join that). This does make it more difficult for all the shopkeepers and I really don’t like the addition of that to the header. I think there should be a fair playing field, which with the new header being added, isn’t there anymore.

Now, to the topic of this post, really, tired today. Zazzle had a promotion strip towards the top of the page and it was causing problems with the quick create process and uploading images. So, after some people mentioned that on the forums, it got moved to the bottom of the page. At least for IE 8, the bottom promotion strip scrolls with the page and if you try to close it, instead to the right, a smaller image shows up with “5 dollars off!” That one doesn’t close, and it also scrolls with the page. I wrote support because it also affected my store (and I’m pretty sure many others as well) but I have heard nothing yet. You know that javascript error pop up that sometimes shows up on certain product pages? Well, it was doing it to all pages, including putting someone else’s store stuff on my store! Arghhhh. I hope they fix it, and soon. The store is functional, and it appears as if you use Firefox or a different browser than Internet Explorer, the problems are less (still there though).

What about Cafepress? Well, I go there to check on my stores and I see a promotion strip at the bottom and something about win a free t-shirt. Great, I’m thinking, not here too!!! So, I try to close it with the X button, and low and behold, it went away! No little image ad popped up instead, it was just gone. Kudos to Cafepress on the scripting there.

Until next blog post,
Kanweienea Kreations