News and stuff related to Folksy
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 [...]
Thanks to everyone who entered our Folksy Finds competition to curate their own featured items page around the theme “Christmas is Coming”. We had tonnes of entries to look through and it was a fun challenge to choose our winner. Some of our favourite entries were Claira Turvey‘s favourite picks, a great Christmas food themed entry from The Butlers [...]
There are a number of different ways that you can promote your work and we thought we would highlight a few to help those people new to selling their work on Folksy (and which will also hopefully act as a reminder to those who have been selling for some time). (image from Hole in My [...]
We’ve recently updated our logo as part of the site redesign project and since the launch we’ve had a few requests from Folksy sellers for blog badges. I’ve added a couple of options (in two sizes) to this post that you can use to publicise your work on Folksy. After each badge graphic there is [...]
Yippee. Free listings today from 9am until 9pm. In order that everyone can take advantage of this offer please only list one item at a time (rather than trying to do lots simultaneously). We’ve cranked up the servers so the process should be smooth, however if it does take a little longer to list it [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
We had a problem with the search engine we use which brought the site down temporarily earlier today. We’re re-architecting the site and our search application so this issue is less likely on the future, as we scale. As always, there is more information on the Folksy status blog. If you do experience any problems [...]