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A Christmas Do 18 Dec 2012 | 03:48 pm
Walking, eating (and drinking a bit) and being with friends. That’s our sort of Christmas do.
The Amazing Business Card Making Machine 20 Nov 2012 | 09:30 pm
Yesterday (that’s Monday the 19th Nov) we quietly launched a feature we’ve been working on for a while which we’ve called the Amazing Business Card Making Machine (ABCMM for short). It works like this...
Dashboard and Plus Account changes 12 Nov 2012 | 07:42 pm
Image copyright: India Hobson The Plus account has been a great success with over 850 makers taking up the offer to have unlimited listings and be a “Plus” seller. To help us continue to make improve...
Selling Offline – Partnering with GoGoMargo 6 Nov 2012 | 07:26 pm
Earlier this year we did quite a lot of research into how designer-makers worked, sold, browsed and ultimately did what they you do. Many of the improvements we’ve made to Folksy this year stem from t...
Better Shop Descriptions 19 Oct 2012 | 04:09 pm
We pushed an incremental improvement to shops out this week. We moved the shop description from the side nav to underneath the top banner, where it is clearly more visible. Here’s an example from Desi...
You can now re-order images on listing 8 Oct 2012 | 06:25 pm
Today (Monday 8th Oct 2012) we’re releasing the work that allows you to re-order your images on the listing page. This goes live with the new, improved categories. Previously the images on the listin...
Launching New Categories 4 Oct 2012 | 09:19 pm
On the 12th September we announced the results of the category review in which we stated we were moving away from gender specific navigation. This had implications for categories and sub-categories. ...
Renegade Round Up 18 Sep 2012 | 02:16 am
We’ve been decompressing today after a mad couple of days. What fun though, we’ll definitely be doing Renegade again. It was great to meet so many designer makers and chat with them about their work a...
Renegade Day 1 16 Sep 2012 | 02:25 am
Today was Day 1 at Renegade. An early start (following a late dash down on Friday) looked a bit like this… But which soon became this: A throng of lovely people all interested in seeing some of the ...
Better Categories 12 Sep 2012 | 07:22 pm
In the last three months we’ve been working on a review of categories on Folksy. We’ve read your feedback, reviewed the site analytics and tested our assumptions and ideas. Now, we’re confident that t...
