{"id":39188,"date":"2018-02-28T23:41:30","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T04:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=39188"},"modified":"2018-03-02T12:15:55","modified_gmt":"2018-03-02T17:15:55","slug":"wednesdays-video-the-website-got-a-facelift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/wednesdays-video-the-website-got-a-facelift\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday&#8217;s Video: The Website Got a Facelift!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s video is about the new look and organization of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/Store\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">my website<\/a> &#8212; a project that was approximately four years in the making. It&#8217;s also about why I hate the words, &#8220;Why don&#8217;t you just &#8230;&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kMTJ7SIvlRU\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>After you watch the video, go ahead and take <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/Store\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the new website<\/a> out for a spin! My right-hand woman Eryn, developer Avanti, and I think things are working pretty well, but we&#8217;re still hunting down a few post-launch bugs. One glitch will be apparent right away if you&#8217;re using<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/search-engine-self-censorship\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Poodle<\/a>&#8216;s Chrome browser. Chrome claims my site is &#8220;not secure,&#8221; when my site, in truth, has great self-esteem. Clearly, it is Poodle that is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/google-hates-wendy-brandes\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">still hurt about our big fight 10 years ago<\/a> and has resorted to lashing out at me through its Chrome browser rather than eating its feelings like the rest of us do.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/giphy.com\/embed\/3o7TKtIvrZTOM2KAA8\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" frameBorder=\"0\" class=\"giphy-embed\" allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/giphy.com\/gifs\/teamcoco-conan-obrien-judy-greer-3o7TKtIvrZTOM2KAA8\">via GIPHY<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/center> <\/p>\n<p>The more technical explanation is that my site has always had a basic SSL certificate for encryption <a href=\"https:\/\/sitedart.net\/make-my-website\/ssl-certificates\/do-i-need-an-ssl-certificate\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">because I have never collected sensitive financial information<\/a>. When I first launched in 2006 &#8212; back when my company was named Gigi Caron &#8212; everyone argued with me about using PayPal for transactions. Experts kept telling me, &#8220;Ugh, no one is going to want to use PayPal. Customers want to do everything directly on your site.&#8221; Meanwhile, I was a tiny little company and PayPal was already bringing in over a billion dollars in yearly revenues for its then-parent company, eBay. I was like, &#8220;Who has more money to invest in security for important information? Let PayPal do it, and anyone who doesn&#8217;t want to use PayPal can give me credit-card information over the phone.&#8221; After all, unlike the online giants of e-commerce, Wendy Brandes Jewelry employs an actual human being named Wendy Brandes who loves to talk to customers!<\/p>\n<p>Now, however, Poodle is demanding an upgraded SSL certificate to protect all the information that I don&#8217;t collect. I figured I&#8217;d &#8220;just&#8221; take a few minutes today to buy the cert. I probably should have known that the transaction would take more than one day and involve three different companies, one of which sent me a dozen emails saying that it couldn&#8217;t find my records at one of the other companies until I sent them a screen shot of said records. I&#8217;ll get it straightened out soon! Until then, if you want to purchase something you can (a) use another browser to avoid getting that message; (b) use the Chrome browser and be confident that you&#8217;ll never enter any credit-card information directly onto my site\/server; or (c) email me at info at wendybrandes dot com to set up another payment method. <\/p>\n<p>If you want to go through the site, I happen to be testing my first discount code: FOWtest. (FOW = Friend of Wendy, of course!) If you have any problems with the discount code or notice anything else malfunctioning on the site, I&#8217;d be most appreciative if you gave me a holla via info at wendybrandes dot com so I can fix it ASAP. Thanks in advance, my peeps!<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/because-nothing-nothing-can-be-easy\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More hilarity ensued the day after I posted this<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s video is about the new look and organization of my website &#8212; a project that was approximately four years in the making. It&#8217;s also about why I hate the words, &#8220;Why don&#8217;t you just &#8230;&#8221; After you watch the video, go ahead and take the new website out for a spin! My right-hand&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/wednesdays-video-the-website-got-a-facelift\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[669,1291],"tags":[1511],"class_list":{"0":"post-39188","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-about-wendy","7":"category-video-about-wendy","8":"tag-website-redesign","9":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39188"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39222,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39188\/revisions\/39222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}