I've had some greeting cards I designed on a storefront of a big online greeting card site for probably three years. They recently changed a lot of their "guidelines" and decided that my cards were not within those guidelines and that they would be "closing" my store. To be honest it wasn't a big deal other than to my pride. I haven't sold tons of cards through them anyway. My only problem was that since I deactivated my own website several years ago, this was my only "online" presence. Because of the small volume of cards I sell it really didn't make sense to pay 4.99+ for a website so I started looking for free web hosting. Finding it was the easy part building it not quite so easy. My first website was designed by a neighbor of mine in Florida. I did the updates but he did all the set up. This one I had to do start to finish. After a lot of steps preparing the pictures to upload and getting a few samples up I was feeling pretty proud of myself. Who says grandma can't do a website. Then I shared it on facebook to find that it was showing up as "RamblinOnGraphics-greeting cars from the road". The worst part was I had no idea where to go on the site to fix the error. After muddling around for a while I did find it and fixed it. Moral of the story is that it's never the big honkin stuff that trips you up it's the itty bitty stuff. All the beautiful pictures and card descriptions were perfect but how professional would any of that look with one letter missing from the link? It's the little things that will do you in every time.
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