Website Madness

Now that the catalog is done, I am starting to work on the back end of the website. The back end is turning the "store website" into solely a "wholesale ordering website". Does that make sense? Essentially, when we start wholesaling to other retailers, the buyers of the stores will be able to login in to the website and order. Regular customers will not be able to order from the website. It is common for wholesale distributors to only allow buyers to order from the website.

Anne has taught me how to work the back end of the website. Let me tell you….it is NOT easy by any means! I am taking down all of the old pictures and products and putting up the items we are going to wholesale i.e., beach bags, pearls, wine totes, dresses, etc… I have to enlarge the pictures, upload them to the website, upload all of the fabric swatches, label all pictures, put the color swatches in alphabetically order, input all the details about the products, and so on. It takes forever to upload anything and every time you change something you have to hit the "save" button. It's incredibly time consuming and repetitive, but for some reason I like it. I was going to try and take some screen shots, except I forgot the command to do so. If you would like to see what I have done so far, you can visit the website at http://www.experiencethevillage.com/store/! That's all for now. I have a special visitor arriving soon=) Have a great weekend everyone!