Status Update 27 :: Website Upgrades = Better Performance

Only just a few days shy of this year’s Winter Solstice here in beautiful Australia, and, as one of my favourite times of year, especially after the recent website coma hiatus, I am delighted to say that we have now completed a number of upgrades and enhancements.

The fact that the site is back up and running properly is purely thanks to the dedicated team at GoDaddy, who I have stuck with for many years and thoroughly recommend, and I especially give huge accolades and credit thanks to Perplexity.ai for the practical tuition and assistance in getting things functioning properly again. Thank you!!!

The site seems to be running better and faster than before so, despite going technically offline for a time, all in all a good thing and a definite step forward in my understanding of all things website / WordPress / Woocommerce related.

Back to the mood boards and the visions of beautiful products ~ I dream in colour, pattern and texture.

Enjoy the Winter Solstice … falling on a Full Moon this year no less!

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Status Update 26 :: Three and a half years later…

Its been 3½ years since the site first opened.

During that time, in the continual quest to create the best customer experience, we’ve tried a whole bunch of WordPress plugin installs, found many to be absolutely awful and some were even “What was I thinking!”, followed by summary uninstall. As a result a large number of the images and particularly their permalinks here on the site are now messed up.

So, finally, we are doing something about that and going through every page and post, again, and clearing all the guff from the CDN cache.

Site functionality is otherwise unchanged and the store is operating as normal, but many images have been damaged and are now in the process of being replaced. The task will take some time to be fully completed.

However, we WILL be back in full sRGB in-gamut digicolour soon and definitely before we launch the next blog hop in the first half of May.

Thank you for your patience ~ see it all soon.

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Status Update :: Celebrating our 100th

Toot! Toot! We just turned 100! Reached 100 Fans & Followers on Facebook that is! Thank you!

To celebrate, the gorgeous Charcuterie Collection has just been extended with another totally adorable Addon: a gorgeous Bouquet Selection of little flowers, buds, leaves and stems.

 

 

Facebook Fans & Followers: please keep your eyes peeled for the special offer.

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Status Update :: IDSD Blog Hop End Date EXTENDED

A really quick heads up: here at Anita Richards Designs we have decided to keep the IDSD Blog Hop FREEbies going so please be our honoured guests and keep on hopping on until 28 February 2023.

Aaaaaaand …. this weekend we are releasing another little set of goodies exclusively for our newsletter subscribers. The newsletter blast will start going out within the next 24 hours from now so make sure that you’re subscribed to be included.

Keep your eyes peeled on your inbox.

Happy hopping ~ see you soon my lovelies!

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Status Update :: Blog Hop FREEbies

Hoppity hop hop, announcing the IDSD Blog Hop is hopping and also stopping here until 15 February 2023.

We have put a nice selection of FREEbie sets together and hope that you thoroughly enjoy all the goodies.

Happy hopping ~ see you soon!

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FREEbie alert! Romance is Timeless Petite Collection

It is our very great pleasure to announce that the archivesVAULT is finally getting the loving attention it deserves.

The first addition to the archivesVAULT is a kit that was released in 2012 during a Designer Challenge. It has been remastered and expanded with some new pieces, to be released on Saturday this week ~ Romance is Timeless.

I hope that you like this glimpse of the colour palette.

The image features a special sneak peak clipped view of the Romance is Timeless Petite Collection, including a typography sample and the full color palette, to be released in-store on Saturday 10 December 2022.
Romance is Timeless Petite Collection in-store from Saturday 10 December 2022

Also, following up on the last Status Update, the That’s My Boy Collection is still in production. This kit is a major production and is coming very soon, I promise, I just needed a brain break to catch my breath ready for the last big push to get it finished.

That’s all for now ~ see you soon my lovelies.

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Status Update :: New Kit in Production

On a very bright note: it is our great pleasure to announce that there is a new kit currently in the design phase, to be released within the next three weeks ~ That’s My Boy ~ hoping that you like the colour palette.

The image features a special sneak peak clipped view of the That’s My Boy Collection, including a typography sample and the full color palette, to be released in-store on Saturday 1 October 2022.
That’s My Boy In-store 1 October 2022

 

Also, following up on the last update, the server migration has been delayed. However, over the weekend, we managed to put in place a workaround solution to rectify the technical problem we were experiencing with the customer shopping cart new account registrations and log-ins.

Furthermore, we commenced utilising a new to us CDN provider (content delivery network). Hopefully this will help improve site loading speeds and solidify back end security.

That’s all for now ~ see you again soon.

Thankyou!

 

Status Update :: Server Migration

The website has been experiencing technical issues for a number of months and we have just commenced the process of moving to a new server. It is anticipated that the move will resolve the problems.

See you soon.

Thankyou!

 

Status Update :: New Releases

Introducing our newest design offerings: Lucky 13 Collection, Lucky 13 Alphabet and sketchPLATE 0011 are available in-store now. Newsletter subscribers ~ keep an eye out in your inbox later today for your exclusive sketchPLATE Saturday free download coupon.

Thankyou!