I finally forced myself to stay put at my computer for a solid chunk of time and after 11 hours of coding today, the first phase is finished of manictrout.com’s update! Its kind of sad when so much work looks like so little, but when you start to play around with it, you’ll notice the subtle difference in navigation. You are now able to though the items easily with in each style and price and availability are now given on the overview pages. Phew, that was a full day. I am going to get started now on situating your return path from the shopping cart better…if there is anything you can think of that would make going through the site better, please comment!
Website update, phase one is complete!
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May 312008
Its not secret that I think the best photos ever can be found on the blog Cherry Coloured and the last few posts go so well together that you should go look at it, now.
Deep thoughts...from Manic Trout
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May 282008
So I was just reading a forum I am part of that makes my life less stressful, a forum for women in creative business and a question was raised about watching tv or movies with people with seemingly instant success in their fields, or the tales you hear of the fabulous idea with an overnight rise to success and it got me thinking…it was a bit off topic for the forum, so I thought I’d share it here…
I always get all irritated about the simple success of people on tv and movies…or the stories you read and hear about that just get you all frustrated and hating everyone…you know the ones, wealthy husband supports wifeys venture and she rises to the top…but I was also realizing that if you think about it, its all of us in this community of women following an internal drive to make it on their own, doing what we love that are the real basis of these tales. These success stories that we read about and see on tv are all versions of our real lives, we are these women…you just never see the huge amounts of work, focus and determination that goes on behind the scenes when you watch it on the big screen. It never seems like I am experiencing success when I worry every single day if I will make enough that month to pay my rent and all of my bills as I am self employed and single, or that every night I lay in bed thinking that I will have to go and get a job that I really don’t have time for if things go downhill. Of course until two months ago I was lying in bed every night thinking I had to leave my day job because it was killing me doing both a very full time job and very full time Manic Trout. I may not be in a comfortable place yet, but I’m getting there and sometimes I have to put it all in perspective…I of coarse am focused on goals I am working towards, but I have been fortunate enough to have already reached so many goals and I am really proud of that!
The whole point of this winded post is that I think as we climb the ladder of our personal successes we so often forget how far we’ve come, I know I do and I also know that in order to continue on you have to stop every once in a while look behind you and really see how far you’ve come!
May 272008
I put off tweaking the bones of the website until it starts to really irk me that I have not done it yet….and I’ve reached that point…so in the next few days you will notice little tweaks and changes to make your shopping experience a more pleasant one. You may have noticed a few little things have already occurred, like the buy buttons have started evolving, they are not done yet. I have added a gift guide as well as an eco friendly guide and the front page has the pieces found in recent publications on it, which is all to help sort through the oodles of goodies that are Manic Trout.
New additions will include navigational buttons so you can go from one item to the next easily within each category, a more visible shopping bag and more photos of the jewelry on people…although the last bit will take awhile as I have to collect the photos too. Except for the minute or two it takes to upload the revisions, you all will not really be affected by these changes, except to have new ways to scroll though the jewelry….but you’ll want to pay attention to what is coming next!
Now the best part about spring cleaning is that you start to want to clean out the clutter…and get rid of some stuff…oh yes, you guessed it…I hear a sale is coming! Some of the older items will be drastically reduced to make room for all of the new goodies that will appearing more often then they used to…now on a two week cycle. I will be announcing the sale first through the newsletter, which will come out soon, thats all I’ll tell you. Many of the sale items will be one of a kind, so sign on up on if you’re not already on the list to get first dibs!
OK, enough chatting, there is so much to do!
Jewelry in the Great Outdoors
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May 272008
You knew that there were more coming…here are three more images from my little photo experiment on Friday…I personally like the jungle explorer wearing 15 bling rings shot…
I had an eventful week-end, some of it good, some of it bad…all of it could be on a tv series, drama, drama, drama!
What happens when I get bored...
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May 232008
Today was one of those glorious days, cool enough to wander around in a light sweater and the kind of day made for hanging with friends and doing a whole lot of nothing. I spent a few hours with Shireen, but it being mid afternoon the day before a holiday week-end, people pretty much had plans. So I decided to take my jewelry outside and see what I came up with…so far, I have a this:
Proof that in the land of Manic Trout, Bling Rings really do grow on trees…
May 232008
Tomorrow is the first Millbrook Farmer’s Market of the, yay! It is also the first Saturday that I will be on the porch of 7 Friendly Lane…
Please come and visit if you’re in the area, as an added bonus to local shoppers, there are exclusive pieces not available online, so drop by to see these special goodies!
Can you guess todays theme?
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May 222008
Its been ages since the last digisketch…so bad of me!
Dreamy
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May 212008
I was just over at FotoDecadant loving a shoot from the feb 07 Bazaar by Solve Sundsbo when I realized that one of the images looked really familiar…ha, its on one of my inspiration boards! I figured it made sense to stick it here too…
Nothing says summer like white knots
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May 212008
Growing up I used to adorn my wrist with one of those white sailor bracelets that lives on you…mostly damp…all summer long, man I loved those things…so you can imagine that I was thrilled when I found these two buttons…I think on the North Fork last summer, that remind me so much of those bracelets. They also look like the knotted silk cuff links that I really liked until I saw them in j crew a few years ago…kind of like how you can now buy the sailors bracelets at urban outfitters makes me never want to wear one again…well that and I’m 31.
However, there are only 5 of each…so if you want one, move fast! To save you time…White and Red.
ps. I added 27 new items last night…see I told you I was on the ball!
