Candle Makers Update

First a small plug for the new online forum for candle makers.

When we were first asked if we could add a forum to our site we were a bit sceptical as we often introduce our new candle makers to a forum that is run in the USA, but on reflection it did not seem a bad idea to give it a go on one of the web domains we hold so hey its up and running and hopefully it will be a great help to any new (or experienced) candle makers. Click on the logo if you want to go and check it out (after you have read my ramblings would be nice).

It is a rainy bank holiday Monday and i thought i would add an extra chapter this month, we have in my opinion tried to do far to much this year which has led to a dilution of effort towards getting the new candle making supplies online. The upside is that now all the new items and ideas are all going to be added at the same time so a relatively quiet beginning to 2007 is now going to be very hectic as new staff and the new ranges all clash together, but hopefully it will all work out very well.

The CandleShack fragrance range are in full production this week (though some idiot forgot to order the new sized bottles! ;-) oh please turn up soon!!) We have the recipes for 500 candle fragrances and we hope to add 25 at a time to the website. There will also be a facility to add your descriptions online of the candle making fragrances and there is going to be rewards for the best descriptions (good or bad reviews).

Larger shipping weights have been added for our EU customers which now means you have to select your country during checkout to get the correct shipping service. After a lot of research we have decided to still use an export agent for shipping to the Middle East which generally means little orders are just not feasible due to cost, i apologise to our customers this affects.

It was noticed that our website was beginning to lag and when we looked at all the reasons for this problem (mostly high traffic and an old shared server) we took the decision to get our own server which has solved the lag problem quite dramatically. This led to the RSS feed and the newsletter features being deleted but a new RSS feed has now been done and at this time we will not be adding a newsletter as news will be posted via the RSS and this blog.

I will end here as i do not really want to write a short book that will bore you to tears especially as i am bursting to tell you about the other new candle making supplies we are adding, but i have been told i am to keep quiet because i blab about something that is in the pipeline which leads to a lot of impatient customers harassing Steve about when things will be available (he loves it really! its Bridget who complains as he is never off the phone)

Until June

Gentil