Various changes

Lately there have been various changes happening:

1. New costumes due to requests.

2. New costumes to replace old costume or those with parts gone missing, this is still ongoing.

3. Website updates being mainly a much improved search filter to make it easier to find costumes. This is mostly done, but also still ongoing.

4. More actual photos on the website to give a better idea how costumes look like.

New Cinderella and nurse costumes plus vacation

Recently one new Cinderella and one new nurse costume have arrived. Models are needed to show properly how they look. The photos are very important for most people based on verbal discussions and website statistics, as well as the long range bookings from other towns and cities.

Going to be on vacation from 23rd December 2010 until 6 January 2011. Only reachable by SMS during that time period.

Crazy Halloween 2010 period

This Halloween period is more or less as crazy as last year. Fortunately, I have all of the costumes properly sorted out and organised for a change to keep the delays to a minimum for those waiting. Hopefully I will have some time to go to dress up Halloween parties in different costumes tonight and tomorrow night. At least I will get more photos for my website out of it and check what is needed in regards to changes.

Website updates

Part of the ongoing website improvements, the costumes are now grouped alphabetically by their character and then by name. This should keep differently named costumes of the same character together for easier viewing. Other changes coming soon.

Over time there will be new photos added which were photographed and edited by Darren Gwynn. An example of this is the black leather Elvis costume.

Plans are being made for a different way to select costumes instead of just having to select by category. This is for those who need a costume for a certain date and then want to filter the list to see what is available.

Costume booking misunderstandings

It seems that there are always one or two people that do not seem to understand that when there is already a booking for a specific costume by someone else, that the costume will not miraculously be available for them or duplicate itself. Then they do not like to hear that a costume is not available and are determined to say that it is. When they still do not like the fact that the costume has been booked by someone else weeks or even months before the time, then they get angry. My website clearly shows which costume has bookings for when and includes collection and return dates. There is not way it can be made even simpler. If some people cannot use common sense, I cannot really help them.

Website changes made for simplification

The website has received several smaller simplification changes which include a slightly trimmed top section, lighter colours used for the bar with the notices. The contact details page has received some layout changes due to a lot of website users not finding the contact enquiry form. The opening hours have been shifted to their own page. A lot of people did not seem to find them, even though they were listed on the same location on each page, as well as on the contact details page.

Costume renting website product list layout changes

The recent change on my website for the costumes results layout to compact the information has helped quite a bit. It is now a lot easier to get an overview of what is going on and multiple pictures for one costume do not cause layout issues anymore.

New costumes listing layout

The costumes listing on my website has been adjusted this past weekend to allow more overview because the description test somehow got lost and to cause less confusion.