Positively Charming Things

The guys that run ArtFire decided to go ahead and activate the group deal that many of us have been promoting, on October 1st, 2010.  That means, if you sign up for a Basic account and opt-in before that date, you’re guaranteed to get a Pro studio for $5.95 per month, for as long as you want it!  NO closing fees, no need to re-list anything!  Lots of great Pro features! I’m happy that the two studios I have will get that rate, I’ll have two shops for what…

I added a second studio today.  I figure, if this deal reaches 20,000 people and opens up, I’ll be paying for two studios at almost one dollar less than what I’m paying for the one I have now!  My new studio will be for beads that I make with polymer clay.  My main studio will be for jewelry, and maybe sculptures if I feel like adding them to sell. It looks like we’re about 1/5th of the way to the first goal of 20,000 sign ups.  My new studio was the #4081th…

As you can see, I now have ExpressionEngine up and running my blog on my main domain now.  I have retired WordPress.  There are still quite a few things that EE can’t do that WP could, but I will just work around it.  The biggest good thing, I think, will be that this software should be a lot stronger in the security department. As I mentioned before I transitioned over to this software, when I imported all of my entries from WordPress, it created member profiles for anyone…

My studio is hosted at ArtFire, and this month they are offering a super deal I don’t know that anyone could - or should - refuse. They are offering, for a limited time, and a limited number of people, their monthly rates at $5.95!  BUT - ONLY if at least 20,000 people sign up, and after that, it is limited to 50,000 artisans!  There are no closing fees, no listing fees, and lots of great features. You really don’t want to miss this!  I know I could use the savings,…

The Smoosher of the week this past week (I’m late this time - sorry!), is Gingerbell’s Gifts. Ginger is a multi-talented Smoosher - she beads (as in seed-bead), smooshes clay, and creates candles, tarts (the non-food type), and soap!  Not to mention jewelry from her clay creations. Here are a few of her wonderful items: She has a coupon listed at her studio for 10% off.  She has lots more to offer than what I could show above, so please go check it out!

I did something extremely stupid, I accidentally deleted like half of my public_html directory. Thank goodness I had most of the important stuff backed up.  I got it put back together in short order, although there are probably a few other items that were deleted that I don’t recall what they were.  Oh well. And hey! Comments are working now!  That problem was caused by not having the most current version of my software, which is weird because I thought I did have it. …

Not really sure what is up with it, I have to dig around and see why it is not asking for your info if you’re not logged in. Until then, you may have to comment at my WordPress blog for now, I’m not sure if the comments will complete here. Sorry.

Ok, I finished editing and moving entries around, assigning them categories, etc..  Please take a look around. I know my links in the sidebar are still not set up yet, but that will be on my to-do list. Please feel free to comment about what you think of my new blog!  I will be moving it probably within a week, to it’s permanent home in the main directory, so when you type in my domain, this page is what you see (essentially, I will make it so /eeblog/ is not necessary to see…

http://www.positivelycharming.com/eeblog/ I am toying with another blog platform. It is actually called a "CMS" - "content management system", but in a nutshell, that is what all blog platforms are. Some are just more robust and can do more than others. Anyway, I used this one, called Expression Engine, as my main blogging platform for several years at another domain, but stopped shortly after that domain got hacked (via another even older and neglected blog platform - Movable Type), because I…

My blog may look a bit funky for a little bit. I'm trying a theme that will help me export my entries from WordPress into a format that I can import to another blog platform that I am going to experiment with, and it's going to mess up the look of this place while I do so. I will put everything back the way it looks now when I am done with it though, no worries. And if/when I'm ready to migrate over to the other platform completely, I'll post again but hopefully it will be relatively seamless,…