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Re: NEW - Sub-Galleries for Storefront Organizatio
Reply #45 - May 10^th, 2011, 2:50pm

Quote from Doreen_137017 on May 6^th, 2011, 6:53pm:

How about a View All Cards link like Zazzle has a View All Products? That would give shoppers the opportunity to view the store as it is today so to speak OR browse our sub-categories.

Yep, All Cards now does just that.

Working on a link that will take them back to sub-galleries.

Quote from Doreen_137017 on May 6^th, 2011, 6:53pm:

... Based on the emails that I receive for sales, 90% of those sales were originated outside of my store, either browsing GCU categories, search engines brought them to that card in the GCU marketplace or they purchased through one of GCU's other sites. That tells me that the majority of the sales I make are not customers who browsed through my shop.

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Re: NEW - Sub-Galleries for Storefront Organizatio
Reply #46 - May 10^th, 2011, 2:52pm

Quote from Tom_133317 on May 7^th, 2011, 3:50am:

Yes, I too see merit in these subgalleries. One very helpful aspect would be a hide/unhide option for each subgallery module, set by the artist. This way we can organize our cards over time and "bring them out to show" as needed - such as having one like "Top-shelf Graduation cards."

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Re: NEW - Sub-Galleries for Storefront Organizatio
Reply #47 - May 10^th, 2011, 2:57pm

Quote from Doreen_137017 on May 9^th, 2011, 4:57pm:

Quote from Peggy_137160 on May 9^th, 2011, 7:50am:

Mindy, I have a question ...

using as an example my Father's Day cards. It's a series (same card design, different breeds) - and for some cards I used two categories ... for others I used different categories (all relevant, but this expanded my potential for views under multiple categories).

So ... in creating a Father's Day SubGallery - I am only drilling down to the Father's Day category under Holidays. Does this REPLACE the categories I've chosen for individual cards, or is the SubGallery Category entirely different from the Card Categories?

Second Point: I too would like to see uncategorized cards still appear on my storefront for two reasons:
(1) for shoppers to find easily when visiting my shop and
(2) to help ME know which cards are still needing to be assigned a category!

Thank you!

Excellent question Peggy!

Surely these categories we are assigning for our own store ARE IN ADDITION TO the Marketplace categories and don't affect those in any way??!!??!!

First, correct, TOTALLY unrelated and do not impact categories in any way... Use care with the name which is Sub-GALLERIES vs sub-categories.

Secondly, we've recently made the >> all cards link take shoppers back to the traditional Product Gallery so all your cards will be present there. And...we are working on a way for you to see which cards are not yet in a sub-gallery.

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Judy_139270 Gold Member artist Posts: 857	Re: NEW - Sub-Galleries for Storefront Organizatio Reply #48 - May 10^th, 2011, 2:57pm Has anybody set up their storefront in categories yet so that we can see how it will look?
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Re: NEW - Sub-Galleries for Storefront Organizatio
Reply #49 - May 10^th, 2011, 3:00pm

Quote from Peggy_137160 on May 10^th, 2011, 6:45am:

another question, in addition to my previous post ...

can we custom arrange the cards within a subcategory?

Quote from Peggy_137160 on May 10^th, 2011, 6:45am:

another question, in addition to my previous post ...

can we custom arrange the cards within a subcategory?

Not at this time...the sort options available to you per sub-gallery in the dropdown are:
most popular
least popular
newest
oldest

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Mindy GCU Administrator Community Manager Posts: 6537 Gender:	Re: NEW - Sub-Galleries for Storefront Organizatio Reply #50 - May 10^th, 2011, 3:03pm Quote from Judy_139270 on May 10^th, 2011, 2:57pm: Has anybody set up their storefront in categories yet so that we can see how it will look? Hi Judy, I have done so in my demo store as a sample: http://artist.greetingcarduniverse.com/DanvilleTribute
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Re: NEW - Sub-Galleries for Storefront Organizatio
Reply #51 - May 10^th, 2011, 3:30pm

Thank you, Mindy - it's always good to see what we're aiming for!

The trouble with reorganising things on the online is that the internet doesn't have an 'early closing day' or 'weekend' when you can experiment! Grin

When I decided to organise my Zazzle store into categories, I did it in one day but it took me 17 hours and even then I had to go to bed and leave some of the items to 'move' to their new homes overnight!

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Re: NEW - Sub-Galleries for Storefront Organizatio
Reply #52 - May 10^th, 2011, 3:56pm

Quote from Judy_139270 on May 10^th, 2011, 3:30pm:

Thank you, Mindy - it's always good to see what we're aiming for!

The trouble with reorganising things on the online is that the internet doesn't have an 'early closing day' or 'weekend' when you can experiment! Grin

When I decided to organise my Zazzle store into categories, I did it in one day but it took me 17 hours and even then I had to go to bed and leave some of the items to 'move' to their new homes overnight!

Understand ... the beauty and the curse at the same time... 24x7. We're going to play around with Tom's suggestion of having subgalleries "offline" so not only can you experiment with them but manage / rotate them throughout the year. Not sure how doable this will be ... will be based on the programming efforts.

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Re: NEW - Sub-Galleries for Storefront Organizatio
Reply #53 - May 10^th, 2011, 4:06pm

Quote from Mindy on May 10^th, 2011, 3:56pm:

Quote from Judy_139270 on May 10^th, 2011, 3:30pm:

Thank you, Mindy - it's always good to see what we're aiming for!

The trouble with reorganising things on the online is that the internet doesn't have an 'early closing day' or 'weekend' when you can experiment! Grin

When I decided to organise my Zazzle store into categories, I did it in one day but it took me 17 hours and even then I had to go to bed and leave some of the items to 'move' to their new homes overnight!

Understand ... the beauty and the curse at the same time... 24x7. We're going to play around with Tom's suggestion of having subgalleries "offline" so not only can you experiment with them but manage / rotate them throughout the year. Not sure how doable this will be ... will be based on the programming efforts.

Though I'm not a fan of Cafepress, I mention them only because they use this feature with our sub-galleries and maybe the coding can be looked at by your programmers?

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Re: NEW - Sub-Galleries for Storefront Organizatio
Reply #54 - May 10^th, 2011, 4:36pm

Quote from Doreen_137017 on May 10^th, 2011, 4:06pm:

Quote from Mindy on May 10^th, 2011, 3:56pm:

Quote from Judy_139270 on May 10^th, 2011, 3:30pm:

Thank you, Mindy - it's always good to see what we're aiming for!

The trouble with reorganising things on the online is that the internet doesn't have an 'early closing day' or 'weekend' when you can experiment! Grin

When I decided to organise my Zazzle store into categories, I did it in one day but it took me 17 hours and even then I had to go to bed and leave some of the items to 'move' to their new homes overnight!

Understand ... the beauty and the curse at the same time... 24x7. We're going to play around with Tom's suggestion of having subgalleries "offline" so not only can you experiment with them but manage / rotate them throughout the year. Not sure how doable this will be ... will be based on the programming efforts.

Though I'm not a fan of Cafepress, I mention them only because they use this feature with our sub-galleries and maybe the coding can be looked at by your programmers?

thanks Doreen

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Re: NEW - Sub-Galleries for Storefront Organizatio
Reply #55 - May 10^th, 2011, 4:46pm

Quote from Mindy on May 10^th, 2011, 3:00pm:

Quote from Peggy_137160 on May 10^th, 2011, 6:45am:

another question, in addition to my previous post ...

can we custom arrange the cards within a subcategory?

Not at this time...the sort options available to you per sub-gallery in the dropdown are:
most popular
least popular
newest
oldest

I'd like to vote for a custom sort in subgalleries be on a wish-list. That will definitely keep me from using sub-cats right now ... for example, I like to pepper my regular Happy Birthday Series cards with individual (different) HB designs (breaks up the monotony and keeps those unique designs in view).

Thank you for the quick answers to all the questions!

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Re: NEW - Sub-Galleries for Storefront Organizatio
Reply #56 - May 10^th, 2011, 6:24pm

Quote from Peggy_137160 on May 10^th, 2011, 4:46pm:

Quote from Mindy on May 10^th, 2011, 3:00pm:

Quote from Peggy_137160 on May 10^th, 2011, 6:45am:

another question, in addition to my previous post ...

can we custom arrange the cards within a subcategory?

Not at this time...the sort options available to you per sub-gallery in the dropdown are:
most popular
least popular
newest
oldest

I'd like to vote for a custom sort in subgalleries be on a wish-list. That will definitely keep me from using sub-cats right now ... for example, I like to pepper my regular Happy Birthday Series cards with individual (different) HB designs (breaks up the monotony and keeps those unique designs in view).

Thank you for the quick answers to all the questions!

I agree! Not having the ability to arrange these sub-galleries to show which 10 you want on your storefront to draw attention to is troublesome. I have never found those sort options to be very helpful, so it would be wonderful to add this to the wish list. Being able to arrange each sub-gallery like we do the Featured with a drop and drag.

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Evelyn_142919 Senior Member artist Posts: 421	Re: NEW - Sub-Galleries for Storefront Organizatio Reply #57 - May 11^th, 2011, 12:03am Peggy and Doreen - I third that. Our sub galleries could end up looking pretty monotonous if only like cards are showing.
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Reply #58 - May 11^th, 2011, 5:37am

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Added one sub-category, Photo Cards, by newest, but they are showing up by oldest right now. Maybe it's just taking a while to change....as I didn't sort by newest on the first try.

The main product gallery is not being seen now.

Featured cards are set to show five.

I'll check on this later, thank you!

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Re: NEW - Sub-Galleries for Storefront Organizatio
Reply #59 - May 11^th, 2011, 6:06am

Quote from Cherie_131661 on May 11^th, 2011, 5:37am:

www.greetingcarduniverse.com/Cheries_Art

Added one sub-category, Photo Cards, by newest, but they are showing up by oldest right now. Maybe it's just taking a while to change....as I didn't sort by newest on the first try.

The main product gallery is not being seen now.

Featured cards are set to show five.

I'll check on this later, thank you!

Cherie

Tried adding another sub-category, tried several times to add by pid#, to no avail, will only show the last card (I added five by pid#, used spaces between).

I tried to change the order by new, that isn't working for me either.

I'll try all of this again, later, thanks!

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