Posts filed under “Development”
January Category Review and Changes
Back in November we announced that we would be reviewing categories and seeing how they performed and making changes to them as required. We have made some minor changes since November but this marks our first major analysis and our first major amend. We analysed the categories according to their performance around: Views / Visitors [...]
Listening and Responding: Improving the way we work together
Hello, In the past few weeks we’ve taken some time out from coal-face design, development and marketing work to assess how we liaise with you, the community of designers and makers who constitute the thousands of people selling through Folksy. We currently have a few different ways in which we listen and feedback – email [...]
How search works and tips on how to improve your rankings
We’ve had a few queries recently about how search works and in particular how Folksy is indexed by Google and how Folksy on-site search works and what improvements are planned. Whilst both are about items being found by potential buyers, they are two separate questions which I’ll tackle in turn and suggest ways you can [...]
New Media Age review
We’re pleased to see that New Media Age (the UK’s leading resource for new media businesses) have reviewed Folksy. Overall it’s a positive summary of our site providing good feedback on Folksy’s features. What’s interesting for me is that content curation is the one area the reviewer believes is currently lacking and this is precisely [...]
How was it for you?
Hello, So our biggest release since we launched was pushed live last Friday 18th at around 09:30. The site was down for around 10 hours whilst we migrated the data and the new code over and tested the application on the live servers. This release will be followed by more frequent updates to the site [...]
Folksy re-design 3: Simplifying and Delighting
Hello, The previous two posts in this set of 3 explaining the re-design work, have focused on the layout and how we’ve improved the navigation to make things easier to find. This post looks at the design intent and the focus on simplifying and delighting. Simplifying We believe in doing simple things well and have [...]
Folksy re-design 2: Searching, Browsing and Finding
Hello. Yesterday we did a walkthrough of key buyer pages and showed the new layout, design and logo. This is the second of three posts about the new design and I want to focus on the way in which we support browse, searching and ‘findability’ on Folksy so that more people can find more things [...]
Folksy re-design 1: Layout and Design
Folksy is evolving. We’ve been working to improve the platform and the service in light of feedback we’ve had, testing we’ve done and our own desire to do better for you. The design work is designed to improve the buying experience and ultimately help designers and makers to sell their work. The most visible signs [...]
Change to the Folksy platform
This communication went out yesterday (Thurs 13th Oct 2011) by email to all makers and designers who have listed on Folksy in the last couple of years (unless you have unsubscribed from our emails). It outlines some of the changes we’re making for the re-launch in mid-November and how this affects people who use Folksy. [...]
Facebook Shop and Open Graph Update
Hello, Facebook are changing the way that applications work on their platform. As of Saturday the 1st October the Folksy Facebook shop application we introduced last year will be withdrawn as it will not work with the new changes. Anyone trying to access the Folksy shop will see the link in the left nav on [...]