If you used to visit this website often, then not so much, I probably can guess why. Not much as changed on the site for almost a year, and after a while why check in if nothing changes.
The issue – time to do the updates. At first, I had time and drive to do this. Then my employment went back to full time and my focus went with it. Running a full-blown e-commerce site that takes time and dedication wasn’t working with my new schedule, especially when using an e-commerce system like WooCommerce.
Now WooCommerce is a very good system for running an e-commerce site, matter of fact, it is the most recommended system to run an e-commerce site if that’s all you are doing. However, on this site, it is like using a Howitzer for hunting. Very complex, lots of overhead, and over kill for what I needed. Don’t get me wrong, WooCommerce is the very thing you need if planning to run a massive fully functional e-commerce site that sells product(s) that require inventory and customer tracking, product variations, shopping cart, shipping calculations and integrations, and so on. Again, building such a thing takes many hours and dedication to do and in some cases more than one person to accomplish.
So the decision was made to dump WooCommerce (which was hard considering how much work went into it), and go with a simpler system. I decided to go with a photo gallery approach, less overhead and less complexity. After all, showing the designs and allowing to place an order was all I really needed. This approach I believe will have less overhead allowing more time to add more designs. Because I dumped WooCommerce and started from scratch, I have to re-add all my designs. This will take time, however, I think the new experience for the web visitor to the site will be worth it.
Please visit the product section of this site, and let me know what you think of it. At the time of this posting, I have my Halloween design collection up and running being Halloween in just little over a month. Then I will work on some small miscellaneous categories before tackling the Christmas design collection.