Another new development at FJ Girls is the FJ Shop. Initially purely Amazon based but if popular this could change with other cool products making an appearance from top brands but direct.
Amazon was on this site before in live ad form but we got rid of it because it was affecting site load times. A shop on a totally seperate page overcomes that problem. Purely experimental and Beta at the moment, and in reality it doesn’t look all that, the design could change radically as we have seen some decent store/shop software that would work with our current server software, we may even produce our own design..
Amazon are everywhere we know but they are trusted, have everything, are reliable and can be cheap. Starting with the more predictable music, film and books such as biographies the obvious progression is fashion as a lot of women are onto this site, we can hear them. A Louboutins zone (the real deal no fakes here) is the first thing that springs to mind, maybe even our own shoe galleries like the recently launched one at Selfridges. Just ideas, there will be others, we can hear that plastic coming out as we speak.
This shop at present is just a basic install that features pretty much everything and is not that female star focused, this may change in the coming months. All down to whether there is interest or not.
We think a shop is the way to go instead of cramming even more ads in your face and getting in the way of the latest news and slowing the site down as it’s getting busy and will be getting busier. This way, if you fancy a browse, head over to the shop, if not…………… then don’t. You’re in control!
No pressure to buy but if you do the money all goes to paying for the new expensive server bill just around the corner as the bargain basement hosting days will soon be coming to a close. We’ve got away with it for 2 years or so, those days will soon be history, the red flag from the hosting company is looming as it was in May earlier year, and it’s now sooner rather than later!
This site was literally “crucified” by yours truly in May this year and parked for two weeks to destroy links and drive visitors away as we just didn’t have the money for a decent server. It worked and the site suffered badly but times have changed, and 5 months on we now have the dosh and the technology and she is back on the rise and quite rapidly!
The current hosting platform we are on can probably cope with a dozen posts a day max at current levels. We are looking at moving up to a dozen minimum in the future probably beginning of 2011 maybe earlier, that’s heading into power blogging territory which is what the big names play at, for that you need an industrial server otherwise you crash. The shop and other ads will pay a good chunk if not all of that bill, hence the idea.
More developments are on the horizon! The link for the beta shop is on the main menu of this blog and will be all over the site in the future.
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