Update on our Ecommerce site.

Finally, all uploading, description of all our items are up. The last( but not the final of the work) was putting in the decription on the Zodiac and Horoscope cross stitch DIY kits.

There are just a few final things to do, these are,
1) Pricing in US dollars. ( to tied up with the accepted currencies of our credit card processings body).
2) Shipment cost.( A major concern if selling physical goods).
3) Custormizing of the Payment Gateway.
4) General touch up of the whole e-commerce site.

That's about it. Just to add that doing all these do takes time and the importance of available support from our hosting company. Especially for item 3.

OK..that's all for now, we will post updates when ever appropiate.

Monitor down...

An online business means long hours infront of the computer. One morning one of the monitor gave up, may be due to the long hours it is on. Anyway it is now in the repair shop. Hopefully it will not cost a lot to repair, else better to get a new one. Just checked, a new monitor, 15 inch is about RM300/ to RM350/. Decision will wait for the repair cost first.

This is the second week of our Hari Raya sales and this will be on till Hari Raya. This is another two week from now, so people take advantage of this sales and free delivery for purchase above RM100/.

The work on the ecommerce site is still on going. Completed all uploading of the Korean fashion Jewelry. Now the rest is in progress. Just that the inbuilt thumbnail program makes the thumbnail picture looks faded in color. So we need to do something to the original image like "framming" the picture with a black frame like those in cross stitch collection. Well it is finally done.

That's about it for now.

Sales Annoucement

We had just started our Hari Raya sales. All korean fashion jewelry will go at 10% discount during this time. Evebt will be from now till Hari Raya. Futher more, free deliver is provided for orders above RM100. Valid for orders from Malaysia only.

Getting Attention.

The website is built, hosted and what next. Well it is attention or traffic, getting visitors to come to visit your site and to know what you are offering. It is no difference for us.

The formula is very simple. Visitors to the site equal to potential customers. Not like a traditional brick and motar shop, customers don't just walk in to a website. They have to be found, invite to come.

We do spent a considerable effort in this. We have email invitation, banner advertisement and as well as advertisement in print. The results, traffic to not pour in but trickle in. Amount the various advertisement tried, email invitation and print advertisement has the most potential. However email invitation is no easy stuff but lots of work, long hours and taxing too. However the reward is to see your visitors increasing, list members increasing and the encouragment that visitors gave.

An Update

Shopping cart facility is still in progress. As of yesterday the uploading of the products for ladies is completed. The uploading process is slow as it had to be carried out one by one. We plan to just upload all the products first, touch up on any one that needs to be touch up and finally follow up with placing of the prices and the descriptions. So that's why is a slow process.

Recently we added advertisement to our front, FAQ, about us and contact us page. The company is offering pay per click type of advertisement. This mean each time someone click on the banner you will be paid. The rate is calculated basing on the number of displays and how many displays are clicked. For 1 click per 26 views the rate is about 19 US cents. Not to bad. It is very easy to join and they recently accept webmasters from Malaysia.

Well if you have a website you can consider this as an extra revenue stream for you. You can check out the company adhearus

That's all for now...back to the uploading works.

Our new fling ....

We are in the progress of implementing shopping cart facilities. We realized that as out product items increases, there is a limit where our present ordering system can cope and that include us too.

There are a few local webhosting with ecommerce facilities but we found one company offering a splendid valued package. This company is MIMOP.COM. So we signed up and bought an ecommerce package. One reason we wanted a local presence is support. Thus far it is great and no worries about time zones. we will share more of this as we progress along.

We are using a new URL for our implementation as we do not want to disrupt our present hosting at myfancyshop.com. The new URL is http://www.mymultimedia.net/ . Once we completed the implementation ( We can see that this is not that soon as there are lots of work ahead) we will put a link in our main page of myfancyshop.com. Beside having shopping cart facilities we will also be able to accept credit card payment. Thus we hope that all these will made it easy and convinient for our customers.

4 leafs Clover.

Just recently uploaded our second article on our best selling items from mens' fashion accessories. Our best selling items are rings and necklaces. The design of these particular necklaces consist of two faces. On one face is a 4 leafs Clover. A 4 leafs clover is a symbol of good things. No wonder is a best seller. To find out what the good things are click here.

四叶草.

之前我不知什么是 "四叶草". 原来是有意思的.

四叶草又名幸运草, 学名苜蓿草, 是多年生草本植物, 一般只有三片小叶子, 叶形呈心形状, 叶心较深色的部分亦是心形. 最为有趣也最特别的是, 再十万株苜蓿草中, 你可能只会发现一株是 "四叶草", 因为机会率大约是十万分之一. 因此 "四叶草" 是国际公认为幸运的相征. 它的每片叶子都有不同的意义, 当中包含了人生梦寐以求的四样东西: 名誉, 财富, 爱情及健康. 倘若同时拥有这些东西, 那就是幸运了.

Four Leaf Clover 幸运草
第一片叶子代表真爱 (love)
第二片叶子代表健康 (health)
第三片叶子代表名誉 (glory)
第四片叶子代表财富 (riches)

New site design uploaded.

New site design uploaded. We included a our logo in the form of a young catus forming a letter E growing in the early morning sun. This is to symbolize our young business and the letter E stands for elegance.

The new design is done using MX Dreamweaver. Earlier designs were done using FrontPage2000. Between this two programmes, I find Dreamweaver to be not as easy to use as compare tp FPage. This is especially so if you are working with forms and publishing/uploading the site.

However Dreamweaver let you have more and better control of your design. You can do more tweaks and working in both the design and html view is much easier.

The new design was successfully uploaded on the 16th of September. For uploading I made use of the free program call FTP Commander, you can download from http://www.internet-soft.com/ftpcomm.htm . It is a very smal program, no frills and very easy to use.

Here we would like to thank to all who have provided feedbacks and suggestion which we have included into this new design.

嗨!

嗨!这几天比较忙, 所以没有上来这里.

2 September
这两天在回复论坛的帖子, 以前我不喜欢回复帖子. 为什么呢?因为我的拼音不好, 所以打的很慢就不回复了. 近来上瘾了. 哈哈!

3 September
在我的计划中会有可能发生的事我都会做, 但事实根本不是, 反而是负面的. 我不可以控制所要达到的目的.而不是一次, 两次 ......
我们不得不信"凡事起头难"没有"一步登天"的道理.

4 - 6 September
这几天等广告反应和回复一些询问. 我也在找其它资料来改善我的网站.

2nd thoughts......

On second thoughts uploading images using services like Imageshack is also a good idea. I found this is more convinient and easy to use with this blog. That's what I did with the SOHO pictures below. Perhaps I am not used with "Hello" but then again I am new to Imageshack too. However I found using Imageshack more easier and simple than "Hello".

You can use Imageshack without registration. However if you register, the benefits are;

* Keep track of all the images you ever upload.
* Get image code for your images with the click of a button.
* View statistics for all your images, such as image size and time uploaded.
* Have the ability to delete and undelete your images!
* upload multiple images by utilizing the Zip upload feature!1
* Registration is absolutely free!

Photo upload software.

I am testing sending photos using " Hello from picasa" . This is a photo taken infrom of our home. It is a sunset shot. It seems that if you have more than one photographs to post you have to post them one by one, not in one batch mass posting. Well I am new using "Hello" so if I am wrong about this please comment.

今天是马来西亚国庆日.

嗨! 大家好,

我在这跟大家分享我的经验及生活趣事.

今天是马来西亚国庆日, 不知要去那里好? 出外又热,只好待在家里.
当然不是坐而已, 而是坐在电脑椅子上. 嘻!嘻!
打开电脑去"佳里" 及 "砂人馆" 磨一下时间, 其实是打我网站广告啦!

搞网站生意不是这么容易, 特别是打广告.
网站每天都需要新人来看, 不然没有人知道你的网站.

Our SOHO pictures

Decided to take some pictures of our home office. Here is a picture of my work area.

and here is the picture of my partner area.

Her area is behind mine and seperated by a long table (That's the table with the black file at the lower left corner). Do note the fidge near by as this place used to be our dinning area. Off course setting up near the fridge has numerous advantages. For instance if it is hot , just open the fridge door for cooling..ha..ha... Well that's just one of the benefits/advantages.

Being Comfortable but not too...

Our home business is home based which means our operation is from our home. Beside acquiring the neccessary equipment, selecting the location for our home office is also important. We are fortunate that we can make use of our dinning room. Once the place is selected, the next thing is the setting up process. This includes planning the layout of the office furntures, equipment, telepphone line, etc. At this stage try to accomodate the office layout to the exisiting space so as to minimise or even do away with renovation works. We also try to us what exisiting furnitures we had and only resorting to buying what is neccessary.

When the setting up is completed, we try to make our working space as comfortable (but not too) as possible. This is important as we expect to spent a lot of time there. Another point to take note is do take into consideration the ease of cleaning the work area. We do not pack every thing tightly but with gabs and use movable furnishing eg computer tables inorder for easy cleaning of the floor areas. We use vacuum and occassionally floor mob for our cleaning.

Our first entry.

We have been thinking of a way to record our journeys and experiences of our online business myfancyshop.com and concluded that blogging is the perfect means for doing so.

So finally this blog is established.