Eat Me!

So far things are going fairly smoothly, with no software issues and just a few link related issues. The shopping cart and secure server are funtioning perfectly.

Known Issues:

• Several of the mold pages link to projects on onestop. We are working to fix these links and would appreciate if you report any products with links that are broken or that point to onestop.
• Many of the lolly mold descriptions link to a category that no longer existed for sticks, bags, and displays. Since these are now all in their own categories, that category had been eliminated. A temporary fix has been put in place by recreating that category which now contains links to the appropriate bag, stick, and display pages. The permanent fix will take much longer as we will have to edit about 1,000 product descriptions.

I will keep you posted if anything further comes up.

We realise that many of our customers use chocolate molds as well as candle, soap, or plaster making supplies. To help those who need to shop on both sites, we are working on a simple check box on the checkout pages that will inform us to combine orders from both web sites to save you shipping costs.

our next priority

Chocomolds.com is officially open for business as of 7:43 P.M. Eastern Time, December 4th 2010.

It has been a massive 96 day effort with lots of 20 hour days, but I think you will find it was worth it.

We are aiming for opening the site this Sunday. All that remains is to update the inventory and a few cosmetic things like lightening the page background and adjusting the text size in a few places.

Everything else is installed, mostly link checked, and tested. I’ll be burning the midnight oil to get everything done for Sunday.

After a marathon session working on the site all that remains before opening is to finish updating the product list and add the inventory. A daunting task with all those products, but at least it doesn’t require any programming.

The members area will be switched over in the weeks following the opening, but the free projects are up and functional already.

Site Update:

1. Done – Install secure server.
2. Update products
3. Update inventory levels.
4. Done – Add index to free projects and instructions
5. Partially Done – Add member area (meanwhile use the project club area at One Stop)
6. Pretty Much Done – Tweaking a few of the site’s graphics.

The Blog, Message Boards, and Newsletter software are all running now.

The site is nearly complete and all that remains:
1. Install secure server
2. Update products
3. Update inventory levels.
4. Add index to free projects and instructions
5. Add member area (meanwhile use the project club area at One Stop)
6. Tweaking a few of the site’s graphics.

The list is shrinking and we hope to launch the opening within the week.
If yoiu want to be notified of the opening sign up for the Newsletter or become a fan on facebook.

Test Post – testing interactivity with facebook.

The site is still under construction, but the “to do” list is getting shorter and nearly ready to open to the public. I hope to have everything ready to go within a week or so.