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[Hazel]

I put the weight on every label and try to package at 4 weeks of a good cure (meaning I'm running the dehumidifier CONSTANTLY). I like my bars to be .7 to .9 above label weight when packaged, but on some like the baby soap (rock hard) I go as low as .3 to .4. I fussed about what to do about size/weight on the site and got tired before I came to a conclusion.

I think what I'll end up doing (let me know how this sounds) is saying something like "bars are cut to approximately 3.5 x 2.5 x 1; weights will vary according to variety." Think that's close enough?

BTW...heard from Paul today and my 8-bar cutter is somewhere between here and there on a UPS truck - FINALLY! I think I'm more excited than a kid at Christmas!! Paul, if you're out there - I LOVE YOU!!

It's only my opinion about weight but I do check out weights when I'm looking at soaps on web sites. I have a better understanding of what I'm getting by looking at weights as opposed to measurements. But I may be the only one.

Since all your bars are cut the same, you could put the info on your home page. Say something like "Hand cut bars are approximately 3.5 x 2.5 x 1; weights are 4.2 oz but may be heavier due to additives." I just put in the 4.2 as an example.

Does anyone else have an opinion about weights? Maybe it's not important.

Congrats on your 8 bar cutter. You'll have to post pics so we can see how well it works.

 

[IanT]

just to expand on that idea, you could include a to-scale picture of the soap, like a link under the image (Actual Size) or something... Id advocate the way you have listed above by always making sure that theyre over what they say...

you could give both dimensions, and weight this way you cover both avenues...

 

[BakingNana]

Ian, thank you...it all sounds terrific. I don't know whether I can do it or not. I tried like the dickens to find the coding for the Customer Service tab to add the word "Customer" but for the life of me I can't find it. I think a lot of the template coding is hidden. For instance, I didn't have any trouble changing the font color for everything except product descriptions. That piece of code refers to something else hidden to pull the color, and I don't know how to defeat that.

It's Homestead Storefront, an Intuit product. My husband is a Linux expert, but he's working in DC and only home on weekends so he hasn't been a lot of help lately. :cry: I'm spending this week finishing soaps I'm adding for the fall craft shows so they can cure in time. After that, I hope to spend a few quality days trying to make your changes. I may be asking for help! Is it OK if I show your list to a friend of mine who does a little web designing? I don't know how expert she is, but maybe she can help me.

I really appreciate all the time you took to do this! I hope I can get these things done.

 

[IanT]

Ian, thank you...it all sounds terrific. I don't know whether I can do it or not. I tried like the dickens to find the coding for the Customer Service tab to add the word "Customer" but for the life of me I can't find it. I think a lot of the template coding is hidden. For instance, I didn't have any trouble changing the font color for everything except product descriptions. That piece of code refers to something else hidden to pull the color, and I don't know how to defeat that.

It's Homestead Storefront, an Intuit product. My husband is a Linux expert, but he's working in DC and only home on weekends so he hasn't been a lot of help lately. :cry: I'm spending this week finishing soaps I'm adding for the fall craft shows so they can cure in time. After that, I hope to spend a few quality days trying to make your changes. I may be asking for help! Is it OK if I show your list to a friend of mine who does a little web designing? I don't know how expert she is, but maybe she can help me.

I really appreciate all the time you took to do this! I hope I can get these things done.

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that would be the section of the code that would be for the tabs, not sure how your web server is set up and if you can just create pages and upload to your ftp manually, or whether you do it auto... but lets say for my hosting, I can go in manually, if I wanted to create another few tabs where I wanted them to show up in that list above:

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Can you send me a link to the page where you cant change the font color? I can t seem to find it by looking

I would DEF have your web engineer friend take a look at that stuff... might help ya out a bit!

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