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You know you love them so here’s another.

I’m not a big user of Facebook and only set up a Facebook Page in order to give people a choice of how they preferred to keep up with “what Sue did next” (sorry, given the theme of her most recent art dress assemblage, I couldn’t resist that )

If you visit the Messie Jessie Facebook Page  and have a look around, you’ll find its more or less a mirror of our blog and Etsy store content. As such Sue’s Etsy listings were automatically updated via the app provided by Etsy – My Etsy.

Our Etsy shop mirrored on our Facebook Page

The other day I happened to notice that the My Etsy app tab was not appearing so; I popped across to the Etsy forums to find out if anybody else was missing the app.  Turns out I’d missed a rather important announcement; the My Etsy app was retired on Tuesday 28^th February. The My Etsy app was real handy and helped complete the Facebook Page I’d set up for Messie Jessie. I debated the future of keeping a Facebook Page – I didn’t relish the idea of having to manually update the page each time Sue added something to Etsy.

However, reading on I found there is a third party app available which does practically the same job as the now defunct My Etsy app. Its called Etsy Theme Shop and is free! (I love free ). You can find it at http://www.etsy.com/apps/555054982/etsy-theme-shop . It is very easy to install, I didn’t have to undertake any preparation work, just click the button labeled “Visit Website”, follow the prompts and the whole process takes less than a minute. 

The alternative Etsy Theme Shop

Thanks to Jake for his work.

Techie stuff

Long time no see!  How have you all been?  Facebook is the latest target but I did encounter a small probelm.

The MyEtsy app has been giving me a hard time, I uninstalled it and reinstalled it several times last night and still it was not fixed. Today I did the same and again no results.

So, I removed the app from everywhere I could see it – went through every facebook menu to make sure it was not there. Whilst doing this I came accross another, second Etsy app – the most recent one, the one for sending individual listings to facebook. I wondered if this second app was conflicting with the first so I deleted this as well. Then I went to Etsy and in my Etsy “appearance and info” settings I disconnected the new Etsy facebook app – the one for sending individual listings to facebook.

So, now I had no connections between Etsy and Facebook. Then I went back to Facebook and reinstalled the MyEtsy app for shop owners. It said it was installed for all applicable pages but I could not see it. Then I thbough I might Google a little more and came up with this set of instructions for making the MyEtsy app tab visible :

I found the solution.
“When I click on add to page. I get the notification that:
“This application is already installed for all applicable pages.”
But it never shows up in my page…”
But, today I found out, that when I am on my fan page www.facebook.com/Strelicious
I can click on edit page on the right hand side and than have the options on the left hand side:
Your settings
Manage permissions
Basic Information
Profile picture
Featured
Resources
Manage admins
Apps
Mobile
Insights
Help

Clicking on Apps I found the Etsy App and than clicked edit settings>
Tab: Available (add )> clicked on add et voilá!
My Etsy shows up!
Good Luck!!!

Kind regards, Luciana a.k.a. Strelicious

I followed these instructions and hey! My Etsy store was back on my Facebook Page. After that I reinstated the links to Facebook via my “appearance and info” settings in Etsy and hey! That now works too.

Not sure if this is the answer for everyone but, it looks like that second Etsy app may have been interfereing with the first one and, uninstalling and reinstalling both rather than just the one was the answer for me.

Many thanks got to Strelicious!!!!!!

Techie stuff

As you may have noticed, we’ve added a chat facility at the bottom of the screen.  We thought it might be nice to talk briefly with some of our visitors, if we happen to be on the blog at the same time , or for our visitors to be able to chat with each other.  The whole thing is just a trial at the moment and identites are not revealed – the first thing you might do if you decide to chat is to introduce yourself to the other person, Guest 4665 is not very informative.  Like I said, it is only a trail, please let us know your opinion – do you like it, is it a pain, your indifferent, it didn’t work, etc.  You can leave your feedback as a comment on this or any of the other posts or, if you prefer you can e-mail us at info@messiejessie.co.uk  .

So, if you get the opportunity, give the chat a go and let us know if we should keep it or ditch it.

More celebrations as we finally make it onto the Google PageRank system.   Whoopee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Techie stuff

If you recently visited our new shop and found it slow to load, please accept my apologies.  It was due to me not getting the settings right in the “back office”.  This has been sorted now and it should load much more quickly. 

If any of you are interested, the shop is powered by Prestashop using the Matrice theme.  Setting up the shop was not easy but at the same time not difficult - more time consuming than anything else.  Both Prestashop and the Matrice theme are free, all you need is some web space to host it. 

You don’t need a “merchant account” to accept payment, we use PayPal.  PayPal handles the whole of the transaction, passing us only the info we need to complete the order; we do not get to see any of our customers financial details.  This also means we do not need a SSL certificate( though I may sort one out if it made users feel more confident about the security of their details).

If you would like to set up a similar online shop(if you run a blog you should be able to cope with setting up Prestashop), or have any questions about our shop, please do not hesitate to contact us at info@messiejessie.co.uk  We are not experts but, we may be able to help or point you in the right direction.

Techie stuff

Aha! Its me again.  In case any of you were wondering what the captions under the photos of our garden are, they are the Welsh words for the plants.  I’m Welsh you see, boyo.

Anyway, that’s not why I popped in.  I just wanted to update you on what we’ve been up to in “techie” land.

1. After several false starts, the shop is now beginning to come together and should be ready in a couple of weeks.
2. We have now registered the domain www.suegriffiths.co.uk, on which we hope to set up a gallery (under construction) to feature Sue’s work in a none commercial/longer lasting setting.  We hope this might attract some more UK galleries who would like to feature Sue’s work.  (We’ve tried the direxct approach and more often than not we’re asked to supply a CD of images.  This is time consuming and if the CD is merley laid to one side it is also a lost opportunity.  The online gallery only takes a moment to access and does not have to be reproduced over and over.  Also, it can easily bekept up to date.).

Oh! And by the way, welcome and thank you to all our new visitors over the past few weeks.  It is nice to see the blog begining to get a little following.

Doilch yn fawr i bawb (Welsh for – thanks to everyone )