Printfection Blog

Yes, No, or "On the List"?

Every day we get suggestions for new features and improvements. A natural result of having passionate store owners that really care about us! In less than a year we have over 1,000 posts in our suggestions forum and receive countless e-mails and phone calls for every feature and improvement known to man. No matter how hard we work, the reality is we're never going to accomplish every feature request nor build a service that is perfect for everyone. Today I came across this post over at a VC blog and it really caught my interest. When should you just say no? The VC believes startups should say no to just about every request from customers. This helps the company stay focused and on track. While I don't agree 100%, he has a point. We're never going to get around to every feature request. We can always say "It's on the list" but does this really help our store owners? Maybe we should just start saying no! It wouldn't be the most popular answer, but probably the most realistic and honest.

SEOing and Store Logo Improvements

Goodbye to all those meaningless numbers in your product and section URLs. We are now putting the name of the product and/or section in the URL to improve the readability and SEO potential of every page within your store. New URLs are just one of many features pushed to the website earlier this morning....

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Update: Product Detail page URLs and Store Section page URLs have become friendlier! You can now tell what you're going to see before you even click on the link. Look at all that descriptive text within the URL!

Here's a new product page URL: http://www.printfection.com/area51/space-cadet-baseball-jersey/_p_270757

...and a new section page URL: http://www.printfection.com/area51/space-cadet/_s_21117

You'll notice the actual name of the section/product now appears in the URL of the product page instead of just a bunch of numbers. If you change your section name or product name the URL will be updated automatically.

Store Logo & Section Images Update: You can now make your store logo up to 760 pixels in width/height. Section images can be up to 300 pixels in width/height. Both the store logo & section image width/height can now be changed at any time, on the fly!

Furthermore, you can choose to preserve transparency in your store logo & section images so they look nice on colored backgrounds. We’ll automatically save your image in .GIF format with transparency. You can change back and forth between transparent & non-transparent at any time without having to re-upload a new image!

We hope you enjoy the update. As always, feedback is welcome!