Notice For Aarfie Custom Web Site Owners
Aarfie’s maintenance service will be discontinued as of 20th June 2012 - read more
Pinterest & Artist-based Content
January was spent getting back in the swing of things and sorting out some miscellaneous projects for Aarfie customers.
Now that February is here (already!?) we’re stepping back on the road towards many exciting additions to our Aarcade products and services. To get things started, we have rolled out a small theme upgrade today to enable the following new features.
Product page sharing options have been expanded to include the popular Pinterest “Pin It” button. After you have upgraded your theme, refer to the Product Sharing Custom Option notes to enable your Pin It button.
+ Artist Insert Content
Like the existing category-based “insert content” functionality, you can now insert content (e.g. artist descriptions, slide shows, etc.) into your products and product pages based upon your Artist Categories. After you have upgraded your theme, refer to the Insert Content support article to make use of this new feature.
If you’re not sure how to upgrade, refer to How do I upgrade my theme?
Featherweight is on vacation!
We’re taking a break from Monday 12th Dec 2011 to Wednesday 11th Jan 2012. Here’s how it affects our projects:
- General maintenance and support services are closed
- Urgent support services will be provided as soon as allowed by our circumstances
- Delivery of Theme orders without installation are not affected (delivered within the same business day of payment)
- Delivery of Services and Theme orders with installation are extended to 8 to 10 business days after payment
- General maintenance and support services are closed
- Urgent support services will be provided as soon as allowed by our circumstances
Aarcade is live
We’re very pleased to announce that Aarcade, our new home for premium Big Cartel themes and services, is finally live.
Our themes have been given a major overhaul as part of the launch, and a number of unmatched features have been added/tweaked, including:
- advanced slide show - display anywhere
- product sub-categories
- auto-categories for on-sale, sold-out, etc.
- multiple home page content options
- multiple product image size options
- editable navigation menus
View the full feature list here →
Premium is the new standard
Aarcade standard themes include the full theme feature list. We have therefore dropped the “Premium” version identifier from our themes.
We have also added three “Lite” theme versions. Lite themes have the default Big Cartel feature list (i.e. none of our advanced custom options or features).
For information on upgrading an Aarfie theme, please visit Aarfie Theme Upgrade.
We are Featherweight
We’ve finally wrapped up the last of Aarfie’s custom projects. This means we’re now 100% focused on our business restructure. Here’s where we’re at:
+ Featherweight
This is the group under which we’ll be managing all of our projects, i.e. the top of the tree.
Over the past few days, we’ve whipped up a home page, centralised our legal guff for all projects and revised and rebranded this Tumblr to be our place for all future project updates.
Status: Done!
+ Aarcade
This is the new home for our Big Cartel theme project (currently known as the “Aarfie Theme Shop“) – Aarcade will focus purely on creating, providing and supporting awesome Big Cartel themes and services.
Status: Launching late October late November
+ Brikkie
Our new web site platform project (currently known as the “Aarfie Platform“) – we aim to make it clearer and easier to start and maintain a professional level web site.
Status: We’ll get to it next year
+ Aarfie
Aarfie will be re-shaped into an approachable, ethical, friendly and super easy to use alternative to general web hosting. No confusing controls, upselling or other tacky marketing – just the highest standard of web site tools.
Status: It will be well into next year before we get this one started.
A little web development group.
